The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-03
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
1liE Faculty OF Instruction of this Institution,
Il under its present organic ton, consists of the
following named PrOfessorships, to wit:
Proiessorship of Mental and Moral Science.
Professorship OF the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professcrship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lcttres,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Profcssorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate ycaris divided into two scssions
or terms, oftwenty one weeks each. The first
sion CONNIE on the fourth Wednesday of Octo
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon q
Anabasis; Algebra, begun History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey finished;
Geometry five books; History, finished.
junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Promo
thcus of Escbyus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Eurpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; PIato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics ,Pneu
matcs, and Meteorology.
sopHoMoRE CLAss.-I Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; SphericalTrgo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
H. Cicero de Ofticiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I PoliticalPhlosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Ma gnctism.
ii. Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy
Ciceros Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co.
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
mics; Astronomy, begun.
ILL., The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical 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: nd
their attainments are communicated to the Board
ofTrustecs.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning an enine epra yer,
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 absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tciM their Tami
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students who
arc required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In orderto admission TO pursue the entrocours
a student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain examinat alton n the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and
creek q Grammar Jacobs or FELTON, q reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's = Ana basis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
CGsar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FEK.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, fas Senior twenty
dollars