The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-20
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty OF instruction OF this Institution, un
der its present organization consists Of the follow
| ing named Professorships, to wit;
| A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
| Prolessorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
| losophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
| A Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipo Modern Languagesand Draw
ing:
or terms, oftwenty -one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second ON the fourth Wednesday of
April. Eachis followed by avacation offve weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLASS, -. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| ii. 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 CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Asschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
| lytcal Geometry finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics. .Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
Sophomore CLAss.-I. Horace, finished; Keno
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ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amicita and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Arstophanes;
Acoustics Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
H. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Ciceros Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity Galvanisn Electro
Magnetsm, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mice; 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 a Philosophical Ap-
paratus, that furnishes ample means of xperimen-
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 branch of study the
members OF, the class carefully examined and
at the close Of the year. in all The studies of e ueu,
in the presence ofa Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of fTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning q and evening PRAYER
divine 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, a 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 ,cih their fami-
hes will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students who
are required to occupy such as may be as
Higncd them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
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 Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader Sallust or
CDsar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FEE.-If tho student enter as Fresh
man. five dollars; if as Sophomore ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.