The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-19
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELLA w ANE COI-LEGE.
7NIIE Faculty of Instruction of this Institution
| Il under its present organization consists Of the
following named PrOfessorsbips, to wit:
! A Professorshi of Mental and Moral Science
| A Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
A Professorship Of Mathematics and Natural
| A Professorship Of Rhetoric and Bellies Lcttrcs.
| Professorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
Professorship of Civil Engineering,
| ProfessorshiP Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate yearis divided into twosessions
| or terms oftwenty one weeks each. The first scs
| sion commences on the fourth "Wednesday of Octo-
| Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April. Each is followed by vacation o. five weeks
|, COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FaEsHmAs Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon'a
| II. Liyy, finished; HoIner'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;-l. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
| lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis O!
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Ill., Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, ,Hydrostatics Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass; Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia nd de Sc enectutc; Herodo
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oihciis; Herodotus, finished Sur.
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric
finished
SENIon CLAss.--I. Political P hiosophy; The An.
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
A oxtcon nnfic ic,t, No
ii. Elements of Criticism Buffers ANALOGY
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthcncs de Co.
roma; votaic Electricity Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
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 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, ada pied to the presen,
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch ofstudy the
members Of the class are carefully examined and
al the Close OF the year. m all the studies Of the yea,
In the presence OF Committee of the Trustees; nd
their attainments are communicated TO the BOARD
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning md eveninppraver
divine worship is held twice on every SUNDAY. and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin tbe
Crock 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, aud Methodst \
in the village, and note all absentccs "
Two, at least, of the Professors ,oifA their fami
lies, will reside In the College buldines and will
board, al a common table, with the students Who
are required to occupy such rooms as NAV be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order 10 admission to pursue the en- ntirecourse
a student must be AT least fourteen years of arc.
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and mustsustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin md
creek Grammar j acob' sor Felton's G. reek Reader
and the hrst two books of Xenophon's A Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader. Salldst or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and VIRGIL, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student inter as Frcab.
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore ten dollars; If
as Junior, heen dollars; and, IL as Senior twenty
dollars.
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