The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-20
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un-
der its present organization, consists oil ve lollow
ing named Profeseorships, to wit;
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
7 rofessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipo pof Modern Languagesand Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, Of twenty one weeks each, The hrst ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday OF Octo-
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed by avacaton offive weekB.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon 3
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
H. I4ivy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JuNIoR CLAss-I. Tacitus,- begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Aleestis Of
E1ripidcs; Tacitus, flushed; Natgsr9l Philosophy
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive OF Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE GLASS;. horace, Hnlshed5 Aeno-
phon' 3 Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
H. Cicero de Oliciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-l PoliticalPhosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero'a Tusculan 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 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 in this
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study the
members of the class are 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,
d, 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, a 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, (Presby yterian Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, Nth their farni
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
! In order to admission to pursue the entire course
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 Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall he deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man. five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; If
MS Junior, fifteen dollars; and fas Senior, twenty
dollars