The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-09
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction OF this Institution, un-
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wits
PROFESSIONALLY Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
iosophy,
ProfesSorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Profcssorship of ivilEngneering,
A Professorshipo of Modern Languagesand Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-one weeks each. The first scs-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber; 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.
H. Lvy, 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
lytical 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; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics,P ,Pneu
matcs, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or GaRansm; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
ILL., 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 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.
Atthc close of each study, or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, all the studies of The year,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated TO the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In additionto daily morning and evening prayer
div 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, student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, (Presbyterian, Episcopaan and Methodist }
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors tcith their fami-
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 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
creek G Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cmsar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENrRANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dolars and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.
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