The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-20
Vol. Ill.
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

TINHE Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
l. under its present organization, consists of the
following named Professorships, to wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science
Proiessorship of tho Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
Profcssorship Of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
Prolessorship of Rhetoric and Beles-Lctters,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Proessorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate ycaris divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty- one weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
bcr and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacaton five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAN CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon' IS
Anabasis Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinucd.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JusIoR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of 4Eschyus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytica Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
IL. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alccstis OF
Eurpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, ,Pneu-
mates, and Mcteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and d Sencctute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uomctry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill., Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass; PoliticalP philosophy; 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 witha Philosophical p
paratus, that furnishes ample means ofexperimen-
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The 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 ofthc Physical scIcnces.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
Mt the close of the year, all the studies the year
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and eveningprayer
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. Al the request of his parent or
guardian, a 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 each of the different places of wor-
ship (Presbyt Episcopaian, and Methodist, }
in the village and note all absentees.
Two at least, of the Proessors, trh their farni
lies, will reside in TIE College buildings, and will
! board at q common taoie, with the students, who
| are required to occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty
| ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entirecourse,
n atudent must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence of good mora
character; and must sustain examination in the
| following studies, VIZ:
| Arithmetic, Elements OF Algebra, Latin and
creek G rammar Jacob Felton, rcek Reader,
| and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
| Cesar Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
| EsraAscE FKE.-If the student enter az Fresh-
man, FIVE dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
| dollars.