The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-08
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution, UNI
der its present organisation consists of the follow
Ing named Professorships. 70 wit:
a ProfsssOrship Of The Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry snd Natural His
< Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship Of Modern LAnguagcsandDraw-
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-one weeks each. The hrgt ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth "Wednesday OF
April. Each is followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAH CLAss.--I Livy, begun xenophons
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy. finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
unued.
iii. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; Tho Prone
theus of.Eschyius, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural Inc
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II: Logic; Mental Philosophy; The, Aloestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun. 49,,
4 : III. moral fOllO0Op0y, flhtob UOFSiho3 Aho
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pncu
sosnomoss CIXss.1l. Horace. finished; Keno
phon's Memorabiiiai Geometry, finished Rheto-
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonomctry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| III. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
STs syginsg Analytical Geometry. begun Rhetoric
SENIOR CLAss.--I Political Philosophy; Tho An
| dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophancs !;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes dc Co
roma; Yoltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
iii. The Constitution Of the United States; AS
tronomy finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
| The College is provided with PhilosophicalAp
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
i advanced state Of tho Physical Sciences.
4 EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, or branch Of study the
/ members of the class are carefully examined, and
ut the close of the year, IN all the studies Of The
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated 70 the Board
| of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition 70 daily morning and evening prayer,
divine 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 ofths Faculty
will attend at each Of the different places of wor-
ship, presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentecs.
Two, at least, of the Professors, with their Jami-
lies, 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
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
Greek Grammar, Jacobs or FELTON, q Greek Reader,
and-the first two books of xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering'S Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero'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; II
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior, twenty
dollars.