The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-06
WASHINGTON: SATURDAY MORNING DECEMBER
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of instruction of this Institution, ,un
Ter its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit;
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and Natural Phi
APfofessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lcttres
Professorship Of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty-o one weeks each. The first ses
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; xenophon g
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
IL. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnued.
H. 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
ytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
IL. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III 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 Amicita and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
H. Cicero de 0iiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I 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 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 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 fstudy the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
the close of the year, ath studies of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to 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, or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, (Presby Episcopalian and Methodist)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tcih their fami
iies,will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to 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;
give satisfactory evidence of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek rammar, Jacob FELTON, g reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRAscE FEE.--If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars If
as Junior, fifteen dollars and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.