The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-07
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un-
der s present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorshps, to wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorship of ofRhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipof Modern LanguagesandDraw-
ing.
or terms oftwenty-one weeks each The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
freshman CLAss.-I Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
III. Horace. begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Kschy lus, and Electra of Sophoces; Ana
ytical Geometry, finished; CalculusS Natural The
ology; Evidences OF Christianity.
IT, Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
E1rpdes; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Senectute; Herode-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oificis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytica! Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Votaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States As
tronomy, finished The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with a Philosophical Ap-
paratus that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly in this
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close Of each study or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined and
at the close of the year, all the studies of The yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request of his parent or
guardian, student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself or the parent or
guardian, may select One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,oiM their fami
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students who
nre required to occupy such rooms aa may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
a student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-H the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if Senior, twenty
dollars.
lst Session. 2d Session