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nELAwARE COLLEGE.


DELAWARE COLLEGE,.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un-
der its present organization consists CT the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProfessorshipo pof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorship of fRhetorica and Bellies Lettres.
A Professorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo pof Modern nLanguagesandDr Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty-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 avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION..
FRESHMAN CLAss.-I Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, inshed Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
III. Horace. begun; Homer'a 'saas ssey. finished;
Geometry, five books; History. hnished.
junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Hischy lus and Electra of Sophocles Ana
lytica 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
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophan mes
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.
Ill 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 the Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, or branch of study the
members of the class carefully cxanned, and
at the close of the year IN all the sfdfs qf the year
in the presence OF Committee OF the fustees; and
their attainments are communicated TO The Board
OF ofTrustees.
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 alwaysin 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 Methodis,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, NTH their fdni
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at q common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
| signed 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 moral
character; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacob or FELTON, 3 Greek 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.
| ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
| man. five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dolnrs; If
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.