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

THE Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
Il under is present organization, consists of the
following named Professorshps, to wit:
A Proiessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorshp Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lcttrcs,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Prolessorsbip of Civil Engineering.
A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year ia dividedi into twosessions
or terms, of twenty-one weeks each. The frat ses
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRRsHMAN CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's 3
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homcr's Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The PRONE
theus Of Eschyl ylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus, Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis o!
Eurpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
'; sosaomonE MOI ee cIDss.Yf. Horace, finished Keno.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de eSenectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur.
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
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Ciccro's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism 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 Ap.
paratus, that furnishes ample means of ex perimen.
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 tn,
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch ofstudy the
| members Of the class carefully examined anc
at the close Of the year. all the studies of The yeai
in the presence OF Committee of the Trustees and
| their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
Ia addition to daily morning and ev ening prayer
di, me worship Id held twice every Sunday nc
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin in tn,
Greek Testament At the request of his parent OF
guardian, a student is permitted TO attend any
place of worship which himself or the parent OF
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor,
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist J
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, OF the Professors tciM their fani
lies, will reside in the College buildings and viii
board, at a common table, with the students, vii,
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
| In orderto admission 30 pursue the entirecoursc
student 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 Grammar Jacob or FELTON, q G. reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doerings Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Ciccro's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EsTRANcK FEr.-lf the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, ifas Senior twenty