The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-04
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

YNIIE Faculty of Instruction of this Institution.
l. under it's present organization, consists of the
following named Professorships, to wit:
Profcssorshp Of Mental and Moral Science,
Profcssorship of the 6reek and Latin Ian
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bees- Letters,
A Professorshp OF Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorshp of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
or terms of ftwefy one weeks each. The first scs-
sion commences on the fourth "Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth "Wednesday OF
April. Each is followed by avacaton Of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRHsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's q
Anabasia; Algebra, begun History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
| Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophoces; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus Natural The
oogy; Evidences Of ofChristianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Ill Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
mst,es snu cl%s Horace, nshed Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry fuiahed; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amictia a nd de Scnectute; Heiodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uomctry; Rhetoric, continued.
H. Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
| veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric
finished
| SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Arstophancs;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| ii. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy
| Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Dcmosthenes de Co.
roma; yoltaic Electricity or Gavanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
| mics; Astronomy, begun.
! Ill. 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 Ar
paratus, that furnishes ample means of xpermen-
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dol
| lars has recently been expended, partly in tn
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
| purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the prcsen
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
Atthe close of each stud T. or branch ofsttdy the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year. all the studies Of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
| their attainmcnts are communicated TO the Board
| of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
! Ia addition to daily morning e and eveningprayer
d, me worship is held twice every Sunday anc
the recitation on Monday morning is always in tn,
, Greek Testament. AT the request OF his parent o
| guardian, a student Is permitted to attend any
| place of worship which himself, or the parent Of
| guardian, may select. One member of the Facult,
will attend at each of the different places of wor
ship, (Prcsbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist ,
| in the village, and note all abscntees.
Two, al least, of the Professors, Nth their fami
lies, will reside in thc College buildings, and vii
| board, TIA common t4.o.v, with the students VIII,
| are required to occupy such rooms may be as
! signed them by the faculty
| ADMISSION
In ordcrto admission TO pursue the entire course
q student must be at least fourteen years of age
must give satisfactory evidence Of good mora
character; and must sustain examination in tb,
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and
creek Grammar Jacob or Felton's G reek Reader
and the first two books Of Xenophon's Anahasis
| Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust OF
| Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, OF
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
| EsTRAScE FEE.-If the student enter as Frcab.
| man. five dollars; If as Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
dollars.
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