The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-26
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

I
TINE Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution
Il under its present organization, consists Of the
| following named Professorsbips. to witt
Proiessorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship OF the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lcttres.
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Proiessorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw:
ing.
The Collegiate year ris divided into twosession
or terms oftwenty -one weeks each. The first ses
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April. Eachis followed by vacation offive weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION!
FREsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon'l
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| H. Livy, finished; Homer g Odyssey, begun AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
| tnued
ILL., Horace, begun; Homcr's Odyssey, finished
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
| JUNIOR GLASS; Tacitus, begun; The Prone
.hcus of Mschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles Ana
lytical Geometry, fnished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Acestis o
Euripidcs Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy
| Mechanics, begun.
| H. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus Mechanics, IIydrostatics, ,Pneu
Sophomore CLAss.El Horace, finished; Keno.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rheto-
| ric, begun
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trgo.
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Ofiiciis; Herodotus, finished Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric
| finished
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Arstophanes
| Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| ii. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
| Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthcnes de Co
roma; Votaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; As
| tronomy, finishcd The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical A p
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 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 and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evenng prayer,
di, 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 at each Of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian Episcopalian, and Methodist, }
in the village, and note all abscntees.
Two, at least, of the Professors tci their fa,ni-
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms may be as-
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
a student must be Mt least fourteen years of age;
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 G. rammar Jacob or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Docring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EsTRANcE FEK.-lf the student enter as Fresh-
man. five dollars; if a Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars