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

/ DELA WAKE
The Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution, un-
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
| ing named Professorships, to wit;
| Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
/ A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
| guages,
AProfessorshipo Mathematics and Natural Phi
] losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres.
| Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
| A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern nLanguagesandDraw-
| ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty -one weeks each. The first 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.
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.
Ill. Horace, begun; Homss's Odyssey. finished;
Geometry, FIVE books; History, finished.
| JusIoR GLASS;. Tactus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophoces; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus Natural The
| ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
III. Moral Philosophy; Pato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
SopHoMoRE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, fnished Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytica! 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;
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
rona Voltaic Electricity 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 PhilosophcalAp-
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ura 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
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, or branch of study the
members of the class 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
div 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 wor-
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors toih their fani-
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at common table, with the students who
are required to occupy such rooms US 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, Jacob or FELTON, 3 Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, 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 as Sophomore, ten dollars if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if Senior, twenty
dollars.