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DELAWARE 00LIEGK.
V,HE Faculty Of instructions OF this Institution under
i is present organization, consists Of the following
Professorship OF Mental and Moral Science,
A Proessorship Of the Greek and Latin Languages,
Professorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phioso
AProtssorship OF Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural History,
Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Drawing
The Collegiate year divided into two sessions or terms
OF twentyone weeks each The first session commences
the fourth Wednesday Of October and the second
the fourth Wednesday OF April Each is followed by
vacation Of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophons Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
III. Livy finished Honer's Odyssey, begun; Algebra,
inished Geometry, begun History, continued.
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished; &C.
ometry, five books History, finished. n,t
JUNIOR CLsss.I. Tacitus, begun; The Pfometheus Of
Eschy us and Electra Of sophoces Analytical Geometry
nished Calculus; Natural Theology Evidences ofChrs
tianity
pides Tactus finished; Natural Philosophy; Mechanics,
begun. a.. ."fN
i'll Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The Captive
Of Plautus Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, Pneumatcs, and
Meteor0logy. -a
sopHoMoRI CLAss.-I, Horace finished, Xenophons
Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhetoric, begun.
III. Cicero dc Amcita and de Senectute; Herodotus,
begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigonometry;
Rhetoric, continued.
III Cicero dc Oios; IIerodotus finished; Surveying
Analy tical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric, finished
SENIOR CLAss-I Political Philosophy; The Andria of
Terrence The Clouds of Aristophanes Acoustics, Optcs
Electricity, Magnetism
H. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy, Ciceros
Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes dc Corona; Yoltaic
Electricity Galyanism; Magnetism Magnetic
Electricity, Electro-D ynamics; Astronomy, begun
III. The Constitution of the United States; Astronomy,
finished The Science of Heat; ThermoElecricity; Chem
istry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
in all the branches of Natural Philosophy The
three thousand dollars has recently been expended
partly in this country and partly in London and Paris In
the purchase of apparatus adapted to the present
advanced state of the Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close each study branch of study the MEM
of the year, all The studies Of the year. 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, d.
vine worship is held twice every Sunday, and the rec
taton Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesla
permitted attend any place of worship which himself
the parent guardian select One member OF the
Faculty will attend at each of the different places of wor
ship resbyterian Episcopalian, and MethodsD in the
village, and note all absentees.
Two at least of the Professors aoh their families will
reside in the College buildings and will board at a COM
table with the students, who required to occupy
such rooms may be assigned them by the Faculty.
ADMISSION. *.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
be at least fourteen years of must give
satisfactory evidence of good moral characters and must
sustain examination in the following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek
two books of xenophon's Anabass Jacobs or behring's
Latin Reader Sallust Caesar, Cceros Select Orations
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalentl
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE-If the student enter as Freshman five
doars IL as Sophomore dollars; if Junior, fifteen
dollars; and if as Senior, twenty dollars.
Tuition $2l 90 $21 90
T toGm rent :xno,so: oo o oo
Use of Library rs rs
Fuel for oratory and Recitation room / so
Fuel is afforded to the students at cost. equal
to the probable cost advanced by each STUDENT if more
is consumed it is charged to him. if less, the balance
refunded.
furnished with the families of the Professors
at two dollars per week H..
Washing, at the usual rates.
All dues payable in advance. The tuition is remit
ted, application, TO all students designed for the Min
The tuition fee for Modern Languages will be eight
dollars per session. to be paid TO the Instructor in i'd
For students who do not design the whole
Course required for degree limited range of stu
dies is furnished adapted to the sphere and of life
of each individual far such be reasonably antc
pated.
The studies Of this Course arranged under the follow
ing departments, to wit:
LIST MATHEMATICAL DEP ARTMENT-In which. beginning
se,a through all the higher branches of the Mathe-
MATES, ending in their application to Natural Philosophy
Astronomy, &C.
ID. AN ENGLISH Observation-Disclosures instruction
in Orthography, Reading, Elocuton, Grammar, Writing,
Geography, History Composition, Rhetoric, Logic Intel
ectua Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Political Grammar,
Story on the Constitution, Philosophy, ORTHODOXY Ma
ural Theology, Elements of Criticism, and Evidences of
Christianity.
3D. MERCANTILE DEPARTMENT-In which will be inn
parted acquaintance with all that is necessary to quail
y youth for the immediate duties of the counting
including
l. Psanmdnship-By an original and popular system of
this art which invariably produces bold, finished hand,
peculiarly adapted to the purposes of the accountant and
business man.
2 misunderstanding numerous abbreviated me
thods of computing Interest Discount Equation of Pay
ments &c. and other mercantile calculations founded
per centage; together with all such operations
quisite for thorough knowledge Of the business Of the
countngroom.
3. Bootteeping-s and Double Entry by the most
approved methods. complete Of instruction In
this branch will be furnished designed to mt the student
70 take charge Of any set of account books.
4th. Az AGRICULTURAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a
lection from the English and Mathematical courses; and
ALSO Surveying Botany Mneraogy Geology, Chemistry,
and Agricultural Chemistry the last two illustrated by
experimental lectures
9Th A Cry1L Eyo1vErR prptnrmExr-In which are
taught Arithmetic, menta and written Algebra Cmen-
tai and writtcn Geometry, Trigonometry, Surveying,
with the Of instruments in the field Practical Engi
ncering, Architecture, Perspective, Draughtng, and To
9Th. K TEACHERS DEpARrmxr--The course Of study
will consist Of judcous selection Of subjects from the
other departments including all the branches pursued in
schools. Practical Lectures viii also be given
on School Teaching both a science and MS an art
Pupils will only thus receive the fullest instruction
relative to the best and most popular methods teaching
but they will also have opportunities of exemplifyng
them by hearing rcctations in the lower departments of
the Institution
eth A DEPARTMENT or aIoDERS LANauAGPs-Iu which
students who wish to take thorough have
opportunity Of doing while others, whose object may
be acquire sufficient knowledge 10 translate with faci
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