The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-14
DELAWARE COLLEGE,.

TIME Faculty Of Instruction II this Institution
Il under its present organization, consists of the
following named Professorships, TO wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science
A Professorship Of the GreeA and Latin Ian
guages,
Philosophy,
A Prolcssorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lcttres.
A Professionally of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Proiessorshp Of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yearis divided into twoscssiona
or terms, Of twenty one weeks each. The first
sion commen nc es on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avaca ton oftve weeks.
COURSE Or INSTRUCTION.
FRKsHMAN CLASS. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; Al
gebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con
tnued
III. Horace, begun; Horner's Odyssey inishcd;
| Geometry, five books; History. finished.
JuNIoR CLAss-I. Tacitus, begun; The Promo
theus OF Aischyius, and Electra OF Sophoces; Ana
lytical Geometry fnished Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alces.is OF
Enripides; Tactus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive OF Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics ,Pneu-
matics, and Metcorology.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rheto
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonomctry; Spherical Trgo-
| nometry Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus. finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss.--l PoIiticalP Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes; !;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Ma snetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buler's Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; DGnosthones de Co
roma; Votaic Electricity or Gakanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College 8 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 this
| country, and partly in London and Paris n 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 are carefully examined and
at the close of the year. oil the studies of The yea,
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 and cvenin q prayer
| d, me worship is held twice every Sunday nd
the recitation on Monday morning is alwa VS. in the
Crock 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 Of the Faculty
will attend at each Of the different places of wor
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian and Methodist,
| in the village, and note all absentecs
Two, at least, of the Professors trifh their fani
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
| board, at common table, with the students, who
| are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
| signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order 10 admission 10 pursue the en- ntircco
student must be at 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 raInmar Jacob sor FELTON, e rec Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Docring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ESTRhscK FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollnrs; if
Junior fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
dollars.