The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-07

DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
THE Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution
Il. under its present organizations consists of the
following named Professorships. to wit:
! Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
| Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
Professcrship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Proiossorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
tory.
| Proessorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two session
or terms, oftwenty one weeks each The first ses-
| sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday ol
April. Each is followed by vacation Of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLAss--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
ii. Liyy. finished; Homer g Odyssey begun; AL
zebra. finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
finued.
iii. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished
Geometry, five books; History, finished
junior CLAss.--l. Tacitus begun; The Prone
theus OF Asschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
| lytical Geometry finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis o.
Enripides; Tactus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-1. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amictia md de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Olicis; Herodotus, finished; Sur.
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.---I PoliticalP hiIosophy; The An
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophancs;
Acoustics, Opucs, 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 Ap.
paratus, that furnishes ample means of Experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
| urai 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 prescn
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of study, branch of study the
members of the class carefully examined and
at the coso OF the year, IN all the studies Of tie yea,
In the presence oil Committee OF the Trustees md
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning al nd evening pra yer
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday. and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin the
Greek Testament. AT the request of his parent or
guardian, student is permitted to attend anv
place OF worship which himself, or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
viii attend at each of the different places of wor
ship, (Presbyterian, Episcopaan and Methodist. \
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least of the Professors ,cith their fami
ltes, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students VIII,
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission TO pursue the entirecourse
student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek u rammar Jacob sor FELTON, e c. reek Reader
and the first two books Of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Docring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresb.
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore ten dollars: If
az Junior fifteen dollars; and, if fas Senior twenty
dUllars.