The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-29
DELAWARE COLLEGES.

The Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution un-
der its present organization, consists ofthe follow
ing named Professorship5, to wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
gunges,
AProfossorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi
iosophy,
AProfessorship of fRhetoricand Bellies Lcttres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Profossorshipof Modern Languagesa nd 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 yavacation offive weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAN CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon'b
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
Gnued
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, nve books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Hcsch yus and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Eurpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.-I. Horace, nnlShed; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and dc senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Officis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
Session 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 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
lara 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 ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, or branch ofstudy, the
members of the class carefully examined and
at the close of the year, aIe studies of the yeai
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
| OF Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning nd 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, student is permitted TO attend any
| place of worship which himself, or the parent or
| guardian, may select. One member ofthe 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, icih their fani-
lies, will reside in 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.
ADMISSION
In orderto admission to pursue the entire course,
a 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, Greck Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doerng's Latin Reader, Salust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent,
EXPENSES.
ENrRANcg FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and fas Senior, twenty
dollars
Isl Session. 2d Session,
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