The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-30
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE,
The Faculty ofInstruction 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 Profeesorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Belles- -Iettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
tory, ,o..yn,.,-
Professorshipo Modern nLanguagesandDraw-
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-one weeks each. The frat ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each ia followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.r-I. Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
gebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, r1aici,ed;
Geonletry, five books; History, finished.
| JuNIoR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The PRONE
theus Of Hsschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytcal Geometry finished Calculus; Natural The
oiogy; Evidences OF Christianity
| IT. Logic; Mental Philosophy; Ths Alcestis OF
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural philosophy;
| III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostafics, ,Pneu
| matics, and Meteorology. va
| SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
III. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| uometry; Rhetoric, continued. q,
III. Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
SENIOR Glass;. PoliticalP Philosophy; The An
| dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
| Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| H. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy ;
| Ccero's Tusculan Questions Demosthcnes 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 iinished The Science of Heat; TherIno-
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 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 of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, branch of study, the
members of the class carefully examined and
Mt the close OF the year, all the studies of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
| their attainments are communicated to the Board
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
| di, 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, 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
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist, J
| in the Village, and note all absentees.
Two at least, Of the Professors, acih their fami-
lies, viii reside in the College buildings and will
| board, at a common table, with the students, who
nre required to occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty
ADMISSION.
In order 10 admission TO pursue the entire course
n student must be at least fourteen years of age
must give satisfactory evidence of good mora
character and must sustain examination in tn,
| following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin anc
creek q Grammar, Jacob or Felton's Greek Reader
and the first two books Of Xenophon's Anabasis
! Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust ol
| Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, OF
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
| ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man. five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.