Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-03-12
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

HE Faculty Of INSTRUCTION Of this Institution under
Its present organization, consists Of the following
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship OF the Greek and Latin Languages,
A Professorship OF Mathematics ana Natural Phioso
Professorship Of Rhetoric and BellesLettres,
Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural History,
Professionally of Civil Engineering,
Professionally of Modern Languages and Drawing
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions or terms
ON the fourth Wednesday Of October; and the
the fourth Wednesday Of April Each is followed by
vacation Of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION
FRESHMAN CLAss.-I. Mvy, begun; Xenophon's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
snished' yaeomstrV. begun History. continued sefa'
III. Horace, begun; Homers Odyssey, finished; Go
ometry, five books; History, finished
JUNIOR Glass;. Tactus begun; The Prometheus of
Eschylus and Electra of Sophoces Analytical Geometry
finished; Calculus; Natural Theology Evidences ofohrs
II. Logic Mental Philosophy; The Alcestus of Euri.
pides Tacitus, fnshed Natural Philosophy; Mechanics
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's aorgias; The Captive
of Plautus; Mechanics Hydrostatcs, Pneumatics and
Meteorology
Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rhetoric, begun.
III. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectnte Herodotus
begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trgonometry;
III Cicero de oiciis Herodotus, finished; Surveying;
Analytical Geometry begun RI Rhetoric, finished T
Terrence The Clouds Of Arisophanes Acoustics Optics
Electricity, Magnetism.
IL Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy; Cicero's
Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona; Votaic
Electricity or Galvanism; Neutrality-suspicious. Magnetic
Electricity, Electro Dynamics; Astronomy, begun.
III Tie Constitution of the United staes Astronomy
fnished The Science of Heat; Thermo Electricity; Chem
istry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL ApPARATUs
The College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample of experimental illustration
in all the different branches OF Natural Philosophy The
three thousand dollars 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 of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS
At the close OF each study branch of study the
the carefully examined and at the close
Of the year, all the studies Of the year, 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 evening prayer, d.
vine worship held twice every Sunday and the rec
taon Monday morning is always in the Greek Testa
ment At the request of his parent guardian student
is permitted to attend any place OF worship which himself
the parent guardian may select One member OF the
Faculty will attend each of the different places of
ship presbyterian, Epscopalian and Methods In the
village and note all absentees. .&
Two at least of the Professors auth their families, will
reside in the College buildings, and will board at
table with the students who required to occupy
such rooms as may BIO assigned them by the Faculty
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
student must be at least fourteen years of age must give
satisfactory evidence of good moral character and must
sustain examination in the following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs Feltons Greek Reader and the first
two books of Xenophons Anabasis, Jacobs behring's
Latin Reader Saust Cesar Cicero's Select Oratons,
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.If the student enter Freshman, five
dollars as Sophomore dollars if Junior fifteen
dollars; and If as Senior, twenty dollars
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