The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-26
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
vINHE Faculty OF Instruction of this Institution,
Il under its present organization consists Of the
following named Professorships, to wit:
Prolessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
Philosophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
profsssorshp of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
Professorship Of fModern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yearis divided into twosessions
terms, oftwenty -one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
bcr and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed by vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FaEsHMAN Glass; 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 CLAss.-l Tacitus, begun; The Prone
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
IT. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enrpdes; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics Hydrostatics p ncu-
mates, and Metcorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicita and de deSenectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de OAiciis; Herodotus finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric
finished.
dria of Terrence The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Ma gne etism
H. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy ;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity 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 D.
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 thi
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 carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, all the studies of the yea,
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees; md
their attainments are communicated to the Board
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning md event n gprayer
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin 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 ut 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 ,oiM their fa,ni
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common t..,e, with the students W ho
required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty
ADMISSION.
In order To admission TO pursue the entire course
n student must be at least fourteen years of are:
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacob sor FELTON, s G. reek Reader
and the fret two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FsE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior twenty