The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-20
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

~ DELAWARE COLLEGE.
1NHE Faculty of Instruction of this Institution.
i under its prcsent organization, consists of the
following named Professorships, to wit;
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Proiessorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
. A A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy, ~ l.rt
A Professorshp of Rhetoric and Bees Lettres
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural Ills
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshp Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate yearis divided into twosessions
terms, of twenty one weeks each. The first
sion comme nceson the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the efourth Wednesday of
April Each isfollowed by avacation five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRxsHMA CLAss.--I. Liyy. begun; xenophon's q
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
IT, Lvy, finished; Homer's dysscy, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con
tinucd.
III. Horace, begun; Homcr's Odyssey, iinished
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUNIOR CLASH Tacitus, begun; The PRONE
theus of Eschy ylus, and Electra of Sophoclea ma
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
oogy; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; 1acitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun. tt
Ill. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics Hydrostatics ,Pneu-
matics, and Mcteorology.
SoPAoMoRH CLAss.-I. Horace, iinished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, fnished; Rhcto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amcitia and de Senectutc; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oifciis, Hcrodotus, finished Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
sEMoh CLAss,-I, politcalphilosophy The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes:
\ r O,aafic IA rpctis
| II. Elements of Criticism Butlcr's Analogy !;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthencs de Co.
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
III The Constitution Of the United States: As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS. -
The College provided with Philosophical D
paratus, that FURNISHES ample means of xperimen-
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The cum Of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly in tn ,
country, and partly in London and Paris in tie
purchase ofnew apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state OF the Physical Sciences. ~ (.
@ EXAMINATIONS gf
At the close ofeachstudy. or branch fstudy the
members Of the class are carefully examined and
at The close OF The year IN al tAe stles of the usa
in the presence ofa Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
Vi Aroseecs, atiF ,n
5t RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
In addition to daily morning nd r pra yer
di, me worship is held twice on every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwa VS. 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 of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist J
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at feast, of the Professors tch their fa,ai
hes will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common t.o,o, with the students who
| are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
| ADMISSION.
In order admission 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 ia the
following studies viz:
Arithmctc, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
oreek G rammar Jacob sor Felton's reek Read
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Docring's Latin Reader, Salust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES
EsrRAScK FEx.-If the student enter al Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior twenty
dollars.