The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-30
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

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under its present organization, consists Of the
following named Proiessorships. to wit
| Professorshp Of Mental and Moral Science,
| Professorshp OF the Greek and Latin Lam
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
! Philosophy,
A Professcrship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
! Profossorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
| A Profcssorship of Civil Engineering,
| A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate yearis divided into two session,
| or terms oftwenty one weeks each. The first sea
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo
! Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Eachis followed by vacation offve weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
| FRxsHMAN CLAss-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
| Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. 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 Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, fnshed Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
| ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natuspl Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive OF Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteoroiogy.
SopHoMonE CLAssef Horace, finished; Keno
| phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
| ric begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute Herodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oiiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytica! Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
| SENIOR Glass;. Political philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristopha mes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy !;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthencs dc Co.
| roma; Votaic 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 y.
paratus, that furnishes ample means Of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
| ura 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, branch of study the
members Of the class are carefully examined and
Mt the close OF the year, IN all t studies of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
| their attachments are communicated to the Board
| Of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and event n prayer,
div me worship is held twice every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is always 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 Mt each of the different places of wor
ship, (Presbyterian, Episcopaian, and Methodist
| in She village, and note all absentees
Two at least, of the Professors ,ciDs their fanni
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order TO admission 10 pursue the en- tirccour
a student must be at least fourteen years Of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain xamina ton in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and
creek rammar Jacob or FELTON, 8 G. reek Reader,
! and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doerng's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cgsar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES
EsTRAscr FHr.-If the student nter as Fresh-
man, hve dollars; IL as Sophomore, ten dollars; IL
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, fas Senior twenty
dollars.
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