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DELAWARE COLLEGE.

Professcrship Of Mathematics and Natural fhiioso
! A professorship OF Rhetoric and Bellies Iettres.
Protessorship Of Chemistry and Natural History,
Proiessorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship Of Modern Languages and Drawing
The Collegiate year divided into two sessions or terms
OF tweny-one weeks each The first session commences
the fourth Wednesday Of April. Each is followed by
vacation Of five weeks,
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FnEsn9As oL4ss.--L Ivy, begun; xenophon's Ana
H. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun; History, continued.
oatv Horace ora begun homars Odyssey finished; de-
JUNIOR Glass; Tacitus, begun; The Prometheus of
schylus and Electra of Sophoces; Analytical Geometry
finished Calculus Natural Theology Evidences Chris
tianity. Ilt s1f3 e85.rs. Ha.
pdes Tactus finished; Natural Philosophy; Mechanics,
begun. r..4u.s. .r.. q. + ~ ..5.5 s,tt..t,..
III. Moral Philosophy Platos Gorgias; The Captive
Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pneumatcs, and
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, hnished xenophons
Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhetoric, begun
H. Cicero de Amicta and de Senectute; Herodotus
begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigonometry;
III. Cicero de ohicis; Herodotus finished Surveying;
Analytical Geometry begun; Rhetoric, finished.
SENIOR CLAss.I Political Philosophy; The Andria of
Tsrrencs Inc Oioaas OF Acoustics Optics
II, Elements Of Critcsm Buffers Analogy; Cceros
Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona; yoltaic
Electricity Galvanism; Electro Magnetism Magnetic
Electricity, Electro Dynamics; Astronomy, begun.
Inc OF the United States; Astronomy,
nshed The Science Of Heat; Thermo Electricity Chem
istry and Geology
! PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College provided with Philosophical apparatus
that furnishes ample
in all the different branches Philosophy The
sum of three thousand dollars has recently been
partly in this country and partly in London and Paris in
the purchase of apparatus, adapted TO the present
4 advanced state of the Physical Sciences
| EXAMINATIONS
AT the close of each study branch Of study the mem
bers of the class carefully examined and at the close
of the year. IN all he studies Of the year. in the presence
of Committee of the Trustees and their attachments
are communicated to the Board of Trustees. #Ls
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer, d.
vine worship held twice Sunday and the rec
men At the request Of his parent or guardian student
is permitted to attend 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 Presby terrain, Epscopaan and MethodisD in the
village, and note all absentees.
reside in the College buildings and will board at com
mon table with the students who required to occupy
such rooms as may be assigned them by the Faculty
i ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
student must be at least fourteen years of must give
satisfactory evidence of good moral characters
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra Latin and Greek
Grammar, Jacobs or Feons Greek Reader and the first
Latin Reader Saust Cesar Ciceros Select Orations
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalent
| EXPENSES. =
dollars if as sophomore ten dollars if as Junior fifteen
Isl SESSION I'd Session
| room rent. OO 90
Incidental expenses -. i 90 / 90
Use of Library rs rs
Fuel for oratory and Recitation room 50
Fuel is afforded to the students at cost. equal
to the probable cost is advanced by each students more
Is consumed 1t is charged to him. less, the balance
Board is furnished with the families of the Professors
at two dollars per week.
Washing, at the usual rates.
All dues payable in advance The tuition is remit
ted application, to all students designed the Min
The tuition fee for Modern Languages win be eight
dollars per session. to be paid to the Instructor in
For students who do not design to prosecute the whole
Course required for degree limited range Of stu
dies is furnished adapted to the sphere and
Of each individual far such be reasonably ant
pated
The studies of this Course arranged under the follow
ing departments, to wit:
LIST. A MATHEMATICAL DEpARrMENT-In which, beginning
with Arithmetic and Algebra the student viii be carried
sey1d, through all the higher branches Of the Mathe
MATES, ending in their application to Natural Philosophy
ID AN ESeLIsH DEPARTMENT Comprising instruction
in orthography, Reading, Elocuton Grammar, Writing
Geography History Composition, Rhetoric Logic, Intel
lectual Philosophy, Moral Philosophy Political Grammar
Story the Constitution, Philosophy Ornithology, Ma
tura Theology, Elements of Criticisms and Evidences Of
Sd. MERCANTILE DEpAnrnrSr-In which viii be i'm
parted acquaintance with all that necessary quail
f youth for the immediate duties Of the countngho
l. Pe,lamansti-By an original and popular system Of
this art which invariably produces bold finished hand
peculiarly adapted to the purposes Of the accountant and
business
Q. Ayith,aeic-C Comprising numerous abbreviated me-
thods computing Interest Discount Equation OF Pay
ments &C. other mercantile calculations founded on
per oentage together with all such operations as are
qusite for thorough knowledge Of the business Of the
g. bookkeeping Single and Double Entry, by the most
approved methods complete course Of instruction in
this branch will be furnished designed to fit the student
to take charge Of any set Of account books.
4th. An AGRIcuLTuRAL DEpARrMENr-Comprising Sc
lection from the English and Mathematical and
also, Surveying Botany, Mineralogy Geology Chemistry
and Agricultural Chemistry the last two illustrated by
9Th CIVIL ESoINEER DEpARrmrNr-In which are
taught Arithmetic mental and wrten) Algebra (men
tai and wrttenl Geometry, Trigonometry, surveying
neerng, Architecture Perspective, Draughtng and To
9Th. < TrAcHERs DrpARTNrSr.--The course Of study
will consist Of jucous selection Of subjects from the
other departments including all the branches pursued In
schools Practical Lectures will also be given
on School Teaching, both a science and as an art.
Pupils win not only thus receive the fullest instruction
relative to the best and popular methods teaching
but they will also have opportunities Of exempfyinp
them by hearing Rotations in the lower departments Of
the Institution
7th. A DEPARTMENT OF Mopns Laseulars-In which
students who wish to take thorough
opportunity Of doing while others, whose object may
ity pronounce with toerable correctness In as
short time as possible, are also provided for.
Newark Academy.
BY late reorganization Of this department Of Dela
College, the Board Of Trustees have taken
to place IL upon and improved foundation end to
endow II with advantages possessed by few similar ina
tutons in the country The Academy, heretofore merged
in the College, and Of subjected to all the evils
which been found 10 attend the gamaon Of the
two departments in the same building, and under the
same government now enjoys the privilege of separate
establishment without losing those which result from Its
| relation to the College proper.
large and elegant edifce with all the necessary ix-
lures Of complete boarding establishment has been
erected and furnished In which the students Of the Acad
envy board under the immediate charge Of the Principal
and his Assistants; and all its exercises conducted