The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-25
WASHINGTON TUESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER Is, 1851
pELAwARE COLLEGE,.


The Faculty OF instruction of this Institution, ,un
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Profcssorships, TO wits
Professorship OF Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorsbip Of Chemistry and Natural His
Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipof Modern nLanguagesandDraw-
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms of oftwenty-onc weeks each The first ses-
zion 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 CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
gebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
! III Horace begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, FIVE books History, finished
| JuNroR CLAss,-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
| theus of Hschylus and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcesis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
| Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Ilydrostatics, ,Pncu
matics, and Meteorology.
|
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
| ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and dc senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| uometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Oiiiciis; Herodotus, fnished Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
| SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes; ;
| Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| II. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes dc Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
| Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
| mics; Astronomy, begun.
Ill. The Constitution of the United States; As
| tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
| Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
| The College is provided with Philosophical Ap-
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
a 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.
At the close Of each study branch of study, the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close OF the year, IN all tie studies Of the yed
in the presence OF Committee oil the Trustees; and
their attainmcnts 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 Away in tho
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 hcir fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, whn
are required to occupy such rooms may be as-
! sianed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission to pursue the entire course
q 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
.ircek C Grammar, Jacob . FELTON, s q reek 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 Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.
LIST Session I'd Session.