The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-13
DELAWARE coIIEsE-

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution, un-
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorships. to wit;
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science
A Professorship of the Greek aud Latin Lam
guages,
osophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles- Lettros,
Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorshp OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipo Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty weeks each. The first SEES
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation Of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FaEsHMAx Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon'a
ii. Livy. finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnished
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tactus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocies Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
ILL.,. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Senectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Iii. Cicero de Ofhclls; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I PoliticalPhiosophy; The An
dria of Terrence The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. Elements of Cricism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity Galvanism Electro
| Magnetism Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun
| III. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy. fnished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
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 of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly III this
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state Of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, branch of study the
| members Of the class carefully examined, and
in the presence Of Committee Of the Trustees; and
i. their attainments communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div me worship is held twice on 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, the parent or
| guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of
ship, Presbyterian Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors, ipih their fam-
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a 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
character and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacobs or Fclton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader Sallust or
Cesar, Cccro'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 dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.