The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-14
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,
| Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
| guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
| iosophy,
| A 'Professorship of ofRhetoricand Beles-Lettres,
| A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His-
| A Professorship of CivilEngineering,
| Professorshipof Modern nLanguagesandDraw-
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or 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 Eachis followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAN CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| ii. Livy finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, 6niahed; Geometry, begunj History, con-
tinued.
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books History, finished
JusIoa CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles Ana
| lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
| II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oificiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric.
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-.I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
H. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Ciceros Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de CO.
roma; Voltaic 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 a 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
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state ofthc Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, or branch of study the
members of the class carefully examined, and
ut the close of the year, IN all The studies of the year
in the presence OF Committee of the Trustees and
their attanments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
di, 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 or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village and note all absentees.
Two at least of the Professors, ,oiM their fami
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, AT q common table. with the stndeuts who
arc required to occupy such rooms as may be as-
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire COURSE
q 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, Jacob IS or FELTON, Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cgsar, Cicero's Select Orations and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FKE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollnrs if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.