The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-09

DELAWARE COLLEGE.

TNIIE Faculty of Instruction of his Institution,
i under its present organization, consists of the
following named Professorships, to wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Proiessorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Profes5orship Of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Protessorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
or terms, of twenty weeks each. The first
sion commcnceson on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Eachis followed by avacation offvc weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, bcgun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
ILL., Horace, begun; Homcr's Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus and Electra Of sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pneu-
hsees, soesomonE s cLassT Horace finished Keno
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and dc desenectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonomctry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| H. Cicero de Officis; Herodotus finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. 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.
H. The Constitution Of the United States; AS
tronomy, finished; The Science OF Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided witha Philosophical Ap-
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 this
country, and partly in London and Paris in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state ofthc Physicalsciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch ofstudy the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
ut the close of the year. all the studies Of the yea,
their attainments are commu nicated to the Board
oiTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In additionto daily morning gandcveningprayer
di, me worship is held twice on every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request ofhis parent or
guardian, a student is permitted 10 attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member ofthe Faculty
will attend at 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 ,oih their fani-
board at a common ts..Ie, with the students who
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In orderto admission TO pursue the entrecourse
a student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination n the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements OF Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacob sor FELTON, q q rcek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Ciccro's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter az Fresh
man. five dollars; If as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, ifas Senior twenty
dollars.
LIST Session. 2d Session.
Tuition. ..................-.S2 S2l 90 S2l 90