The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-25
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

TINE Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution,
i under its present organization, consists Of the
following named Professorshps, to wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
Professorshp of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorshp of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate yearis divided into twosessions
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. Each is followed by avacation offve weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN 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 Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
ytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Euripdes; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
ILL., Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pncu-
ses soeaomoaH snu cLassW Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amcitia and deScncctute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss-I. PoliticalP hilosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
L. ~ ;fIcisf p,,fJa
Ciccro's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltac Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun
ILL., The Constitution of the United States; AS
tronomy, inished The Science Of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical A 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 Til;
country and partlyin London and Paris, in the
purchase ofnew apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of feachstudy, or branch ofstudy, the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close OF the year, all the studies Of the
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning ndevening 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, a student is permitted to 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
Ship Presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist, }
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two at least, of the Professors, ,cih their FAM
hes will reside in the College buildings, and viii
| board at a common t...e, with the students, VIII,
| are required to occupy such as may be as-
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In orderto admission TO pursue the entire course
a student must be at least fourteen years of age
must give satisfactory evidence of good mora
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek G. rammar Jacob sor FELTON, IS g reek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust on
Cesar, Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil, on
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FKE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, fas Senior twenty
dollars.