The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-13
No. l02.
DELAwARE COLLEGES.

DELAWARE COLLEGE,.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un-
der ts present organzation consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, 70 wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guaFes,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
A Professorship OF Modern Languagesand Draw
1'he Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty-one weeks each. The hrst
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber; and the second ON the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed byavacation OF 1--WE weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRERHMAN CLAss.-I. Liyy, begun; Xenophon' 3
Anabosis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
H. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
gebra, inishedi Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnishcd;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JuNroR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of F,schylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry finshed Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
| H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis oi
Epripidca; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
H. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
mates, and Meeorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon s Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
II. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uomctry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc 0iiciis; Herodotus, hnished Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I PoliticalPhiIosophy; The An
4 r IL oT A
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes 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, finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology,
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical A p
paratua 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 ofnew 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
ut the close of the year, all The studies of the yea
in the presence of a Committee Of the Trustees and
their ottalnment6 are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening pra yer,
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, 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, Episcopahan and Methodist }
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professor ,cifh their fami-
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
| board at a common table, with the students, WHO
| a4e required 10 occupy such rooms 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 mora
character; and must sustain examination in the
| following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacob or Folton's Greek Reader,
| and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
! Jacobs or Doerings Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
| ENTRANCE FEE.-I the student enter Fresh
| man FIVE dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.