The republic., 1851-10-30
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


DELAWARE COLLEGE,.
The Faculty of instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit;
a Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
a Profesoorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProlessorshipof Mathematics and Natural Phi
lcsophy,
Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies -Lcttres,
A Profcssorship Of Chemistry aud Natural His
< Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipo Modern LanguRgesandDraw-
ing.
or terms, oftwenty- -one weeks each. The first se5-
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 Glass;. Livy, begun Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
III. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JusioR CLAss.--I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschy lus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
ytical Geometry, finished; Caiculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. 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
s, sopHomonn MOI Class.gf. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, fnishedj Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectuie; Herodo-
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
Ill. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy;
Ciccro's Tusculan Questions Demosthcnes de Co
roma; Volaic Electricity or Galvaniem Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
III. The Constitution of the United States; As
troncmy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity, Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with 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
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
the close of the year in all the studies Of the yea,
in the presence of a Committee of the Trustees and
their attainmcnts communicated TO the Board
oil trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition TO daily morning and evening prayer,
d, 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 wcr-
ship, Presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in The village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, oih their fami-
lies 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 orderto 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 examination in the
following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacob or FELTON, Is Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xcnophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Docring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANoE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh.
man, five dollars if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
dollars.