The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-19
DELAWARE COLLEGE,,


The Faculty of instruction of this Institution .un-
der it's present organization consists Of the follow
ing named Professorshps, to wit:
Profcssorshp of Mental and Moral Science,
A Profcssorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
iosophy,
A AProfessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
A ProlessorshiP Of Chemistry aud Natural His
4 Professorsbip OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern nLanguagesand Draw
ing.
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 vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION..
FREsHmAs CLAss.-I Livy, begun; Xenophon's 8
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy. finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; AL
zebra, fnished 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
lyticak Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences OF Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis oi
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
ILL., Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matcs, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE GLASS;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. 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 CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophancs; !;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's TuEculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mica; 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 Ap-
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, or branch of study, the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year. an all The studies of the yea,
in the presence of a Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening pra yer,
d, INC 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 or the parent or
guardian, may select One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor
ship, (Presby yterian, Episcopalian, and Mchodist)
in the village, and note all abscntees.
Two, at least, of the Professors toiM their fami
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the Students who
are required to occupy such may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission to pursue the entire course,
q student must be at cast fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination in tho
! following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek rammar, Jacob FELTON, s Grcck Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's q Anabass
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Saust 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, ifas Senior twenty
dollars.
Isl Session. I'd Session.