The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-18
n. n. HALL,
Postmaster General.
DpLaxyARE COLLEGE,.
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The Faculty Of Instruction OF thls Institution, I'M
der its present organization, consists vi the follow
ing named ProfcssOrships, 10 wit;
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
4 Professorshp of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages
4 PROFESSIONALLY oil Mathematics and Natural Phi
4 Pfoiessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Profcssorship of Chemistry and Natural His
Tory,
< Professionally OF Civil Engineering,
\ Profcssorshipo of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
terms, of twenty -one weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed by avacaton of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLAss.--I Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun :,
ii. Liyy, fnished Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinucd
III. Horace, begun; Homcr's Odyssey. inshed
Geometry, five books; History finished
JuNIoR GLASS; Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus OF Eschyus, and Electra OF Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
Ca ptive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydro5tatics, Pneu
mates, and Mcteorology.
sopHoMoRE CLAss.9i Horace, finished Keno
phon's NJ morabila; Geometry, finished Rheto
ric, begun.
H. cicero de Amicitia and de scnectute; Herodo
tus, begun Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Oiticiis; Herodotus, tnishcd Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLASH. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes !;
Acoustics Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements Of Criticism Buffers Analogy ;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demoshenes de Co
roma; Folaic 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 Philosophical Ap-
paratu5, that furnishes ample neans of experiment
tai illustration i'll all the different branches of Nat
.ufal Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly in this
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase OF new apparatus, adapted 10 the present
advanced state OF the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
40 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 Tie yedr
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments arc communicated to the Board
OF Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION..
,
dix ne worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation ON Monday morning IL always in the
Greek Testament AT the request of his parent
guardian, student ID permitted to attend any
place OF worship which himself, the parent or
guardian may select. One member OF the Faculty
viii attend Mt each of the different places OF wor-
chip, presbyterian, Epscopaliau, and Methodist)
III the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at leaet, of the Professors. ,riM their faai-
hCs, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, az common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms may be 40
signed them by The faculty.
ADMISSION
la order 10 admission TO pursue the entire course,
a student must be at least fourteen years Of age;
uiust 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 fret two books of Aenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or behring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESrRAScE FEE.--If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.