The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-09
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
TINHE Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
i under it's present organization, consists of the
following named Pfofessorships, to wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
Professorshp Of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
Profsssorship Of Chemistry and Natural Iii
tory,
A Professorship of Civil Engineering.
AProfessorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate yeari ia divided into two session
or terms, oftwenty -one weeks each. The fret
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRrsHMAN CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; Xcnophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; fiistory, begun.
II. Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
H. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnishcd
Geometry, five books History, finished.
junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of 4Eschyus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
IT, Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Acestis Of
E1ripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Captive OF Piautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
sopHoMonE CLAss.ee1 Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhcto
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicita and deSenectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Politica hilosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics Electricity Magnetism.
H. 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
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, adapted to the present
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS
At the close of each study, or branch of study the
| members OF the class arc carefully examined, and
the close Of the year. all the studies of the uea
in the presence Of a Committee of the Trustees and
their nttainments are communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning md event n q prayer
di, me worship is held twice on every Sunday, md
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin 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 }
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, Of the Professors ,riH their fami
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students, wRc
| arc required to occupy such rooms as may be as-
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission TO pursue the en- course,
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 rammar Jacob or FELTON, Is g reek Reader
and the first two books of xenophon's Anabasis,
jacobs or Docring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Ciccro's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ESTnANcK FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; il as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars