The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-11
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
THE Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution,
l. under its present organization, consists Of the
following named Proiessorships, to witt
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies. Letters,
A Professorsbip of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Proiessorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yearis divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty weeks EACH The first ses-
sion commenceso on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Eachis followed by vacation offve weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History begun.
Ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnued
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey finished
l Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUsIoR Glass; Taoitus, begun; The Promo
theus Of Kschylus, and Electra of Sophocles Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
IL. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Acestis o.
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy
Mechanics, begun
III. 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 and de Senectute; Herodo
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; SphericalTrigo
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Ofticiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
| veying; 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
| Cicero's Tuscuan 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; TherIno
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical A p
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment.
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The Of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly in th:s
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 each study, or branch ofstudy the
members of the class carefully examined, and
the close Of the year. all the studies of the
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
their attainmcnts are communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evenin ng prayer
d, me worship is held twice on every Sunday a nd
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysi 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 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 ,cith their fami
lies, will reside in the College buildings and vii
board, at a common t.oie, with the students who
are required to occupy such rooms as maybe as
signed them by the faculty
ADMISSION.
In orde rto 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 n examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek rammar Jacobs FELTON, reek Reader,
and the fret two books of Xcnophon's Anabasis
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANcE FKE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore ten dollars; il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, ifas Senior twenty
dollars