The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-28
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


Il under its present organization, consists Of the
following named Proiessorships, to wit:
Proiessorshp of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorshp Of the Greek and Latin Ian
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies. Lettres.
A Prolesso rship of Chemistry and Natural Ills;
A Professorship of Civil Engineering.
Prolessorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate yearis divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenty- -one weeks each. The fret sea
sion comme nces on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed by vacation five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman GLASS;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Annbazis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnued
III Horace, begun; Homcr's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
junior CLAss.-I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
thcus OF 4Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocies; 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
SopHomonE CLAss-f Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto
ric, begun
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trgo
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
Ill. Cicero dc OiIiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SrNIoR Glass;. PoliticaIPhiIosophy; The An.
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes !;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
i
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvansm Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thormo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical An
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 THE
country, and partly in London and Paris in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state OF the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close Of each study or branch of study the
members Of the class are carefully examined and
at the close Of the year. in all the studies of the yea,
in the presence ola Committee of the Trustees and
ofTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evenn PRAYER
di, me worship is held twice on 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, Epscopalian, and Methodist,
in the village, and note all absentces.
Two, least, Of the Professors tpifh their fa,ai
hes, 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 entirec course
a student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain examna ton In the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek G Grammar, Jacob 8 or FELTON, G. reek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Ccero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EsTRAscr FEH.-If the student enter as Fresh.
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore ten dolars; if
as Junior, fifteen dolars; and, III Senior twenty
dollars.