The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-29
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction OF this Institution, un-
der its 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 Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres
| A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorshipo pof Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year ia divided into two sessions
or terms, Of ftwenty-one weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRxsHmAS Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
IL LSy Syy.6sa ashea segun al
| tinued.
| Ill. Horace, begun; Homers Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JusIoR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
Ilytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity
| III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
| Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SopHoMoRE Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
| ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Oifciis; Herodotus, fnished Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. PoliticalP Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
~ L. n,.sr n0co
roma; Votaic Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics Astronomy, begun.
| III The Constitution of the United States; As
| tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
| Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
| The College is provided with Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
| ural Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dol
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of 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 carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, in 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,
div 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
| 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 each of the different places of wor-
ship, (Presby Episcopalian, and Methodist)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, triM their fapi-
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
| board, at common table, with the students, who
| are required to occupy such rooms 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
i character; and must Sustain an examination in the
| following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's G reek Reader,
| and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
| Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
| ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man. five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen doars and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.