The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-12
DELAWARE CoLLEc r..

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1SHE Faculty OF Instruction OF this Institution.
under ts present organization. consists Of the
| following named Professorships, to wit:
| A Protcssorshp Of Mental and Moral Science,
Proiessorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
Proiessorship Of Mathematics and Natural
| Philosophy,
| A Proicssorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lcttrcs,
| Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural Ills
A Profcssorship Of Civil Engineering,
Profcssorship of Modern Languages and Draw.
ing;
or terms, oftwenty -onc weeks each. The first scs
sion omme nccs on the fourth Wednesday of Oct 0.
Der; and the second ON the fourth Wednesday OF
April. Eachis followed by vacation five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman Glass; Livy. begun; Xcnophon'a
Annbasis; Algebra, begun; History. begun.
II. Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnucd
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished
Geometry, five books; History, finished
junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone.
thcus Of AschyIus, and Electra Of sophoclcs; Ana,
lytical Geometry finished; Calculus; Natural The.
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive Of Pautus; Mechanics, ,Hylrostatics ,Pneu-
mates, ana Metcoroiogy.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rc begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amicitia md dc Sc nectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de OHiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric
finished.
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magletism
ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy ;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mice; Astronomy, begun.
iii. The Constitution OF the United States; Az
tronomy, fnished The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Ap-
paratus, that furnishes ample means of ex rerirncn
tai illustration in Ill the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended partly in tbis
country, and partly in London and Paris in the
purchase OF new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state OF the Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS
AT the close Of cachstudy, or branch of study the
members Of the class are carefully examiner ard
at the close OF the year. in all TIE si,d,,s Of Nr s
In the presence ola Committee of the Trustees: and
their attainments are communicated to the Koa rd
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition TO daily morning and cyeninynr,ve,
divine worship is held twice on every Sunday nnd
the recitation on Monday morning Ia alwavsin the
Greek Testament. At the rcquest of his pa rent or
guardian, n student ia permitted tn attend apv
place Of worship which himself or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member oftbe Facu,tv
will attend at each Of tho different places of wor
ship, PresbYterian, Epscopalinn and Metbodist :,
Two, at least, of the Professors ,cifh their (ami
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students VIA
are required to occupy such rooms as NAV be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission TO pursue the entire course
a student must be at least fourteen ycara of arc,
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain examination in the
following stndies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and
creek rammar, jacob sor FELTON, e G. rcek Reader
and the first two books Of Xcnophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Ciccro's Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRAscH FEE.-lf the student enter Ia Fresh
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore ten dollars: if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, fas Senior twenty
dollars