The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-04

DELAWARE COLLEGE.

! DELAWARE COLLEGE.
VNIIE Faculty OF Instruction of this Institution,
i under its present organization, consists Of the
| following named Pfofessorships to wit;
| A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
| Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
guagcs,
| A Profcssorship of Mathematics and Natural
| Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Profcssorship of Civil Engineering,
A Proiessorship of Modern Languages and Ora
The Collegiate ycaris dividedi into twosessions
| or tcrms, oTtwcnty-onc weeks each. The first ses
sion comme INC cs on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Eachis followed by avacation offve weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.-I. Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homcr's Odyssey begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JuNIon CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
| thous of Eschylus and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
| Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
Sophomore CLAss.ef. Horace, finished; Keno
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rhcto
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; SphcricaiTrigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
iii. Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
| veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
| SENIOR CLAss.-I PoliticalPhilosophy; The An
l.. l.. r.
| Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
| III. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy !;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de Co.
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
| Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-D Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
iii. 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.
ura 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 ofthc Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS
AT the closc of each study or branch of study the
| members OF the class are carefully examined and
Mt the close of the year. all the studies of the Vsa
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees nd
| their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
| RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning nd veni n gprayer
di, me worship Is held twice every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysi 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, Episcopalian, and Methodist }
| in the village, and note all abscntees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tcith their fami-
l,es, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students, whS
| are required TO occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission 10 pursue the entire course
a student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give Satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character and must sustain al examination in the
following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacob or Fcton's rcck Reader
and the first two books of Xenophons Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicoro's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRAScK FKE.-If the student enter as Fresh-
man, five dollars; IL n Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollarGj and fas Senior twenty
dollars