The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-12
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships 20 wit;
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages, -,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorsbip of Rhetoricand Belles Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
4 Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty-on weeks each. The first se5-
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's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
Ill. Livy 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 Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Hschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pncu
matics, and Meteorology.
SopHoMoRE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amoitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes; ;
| Acoustics Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
| of Rntle nall
| 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 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 of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study the
members Of the class carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, IN all the 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,
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday. aud
| 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, Presbyterian Episcopalian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, soih their fani
lies, will rcsiden the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
4 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 an examination in tn
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin ant
creek Grammar, Jacob s or FELTON, Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Saust OF
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, oil
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FEE.-lf the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.