The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-05
ON FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1851
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of instruction Of this Institution ,un
der its present organization, consists ofthe follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
Pfofessorship Of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
Professorship OF Chemistry aud Natural His
tory,
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
terms, of twenty-one weeks each. The first seq
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacaton offve weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAN GLASS;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JuNIoa CLAss-I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Kschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytcal 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 Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de scnectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Ccero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gavanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dynn-
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 cx permen-
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ura 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 eachstudy or branch of study, the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, alle studies Of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
d, 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
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, tciH their fani-
ies, 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 admission to pursue the entire course,
a student must be ut least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
characters and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacobs or Feton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophons 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 Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
dollars.
lst Session. I'd Session
Tuition. ..........,.........$ $2l 90 $2l %