The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-13
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

INllE Faculty Of Instruction OF this Institution.
J. under its present organization, consists of the
following named Professorships. TO wit:
A Protessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Proiessorship OF the Greek and Latin Ian
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Proiessorship of Rhetoric and Bcllcs- Letters,
AProfessorship Of Chemistry and Natural His.
A Profcssorshp of Civil Engineering,
Profcssorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate ycnris divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenty one weeks each. The first ses-
sion CONNIE on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed by avacation five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREEDMAN CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xcnophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
II. Livy, finished; Homer s Ody,sey begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begusi History, con-
tinued. II
III Horace, begun; Homcr's Od-sscy fnished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss.---I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschyus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alccstis Of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Ill Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics Hydrostatics, ,Pneu-
matics and Meteorology.
sopHoMonE CLAss.ef. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and d cScncctute Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill Cicero de OAiciis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. PoliticalP philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de Co
rona Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
Ill The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with 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 prcse Mt
advanced state ofthc Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS
At the close of each study, branch of study the
members of the class carefully examined and
at the close of the year. all the studies Of yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
their attainmcnts are communicated to the Board
ofTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
In addition to daily morning az gandeveningprayer, an
d, 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, 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 absentces.
Two, at least of the Professors trith their fani-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common ts.S.c, with the students who
required TO occupy such rooms as may bo as
signed them by tho faculty.
ADMISSION
In orderto admission TO pursue the entirccourse
a student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sust tain an examination n the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements OF Algebra, Latin and
creek g rammar, Jacob FELTON, G. 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.
EsrRArcgFEx.-If the student enter - Fresh
man. five dollars; If as Sophomore. ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, as Senior twenty
dollars.