The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-21

DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
THE Faculty Of Instruction Of this Institution,
Il under its present organization, consists OF the
following named Professorships, to wit
A Proiessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies. Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Profcssorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
ing,
terms, of twenty one weeks each. The frat ses-
sion commenc es on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon,s q
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry. begun; History, con
tnued.
III. Horace, begun; iomer's Odyssey finished:
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIoR CLASS. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
thcus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytcai Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alccstis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, ,Hydrostatcs, ,Pneu-
matics, and Meteoroogy.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amicitia and desenectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Ofticis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Politica Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
II. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy ;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co.
roma; voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun
iii. The Constitution of the United States; A.
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
aral Philosophy: The sum of three thousand dol
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 cose Of feachstudy, or branch of study the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close OF the year, ia all Ae stdies Of the yea,
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 and evenin ng PRAYER
div me worship Is held twice on every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin 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 absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors trih their fami-
lies, will reside in tho College buildings and will
board, at a common t..,c, with the students who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order 10 admission to pursue the entire course
a student must be at least fourteen years of are;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain n examination N the
following studics, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek g rammar Jacob sor Feton's G. Greek Ren DER
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
CGsar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EsTRAscE FKr.-If the student enter as Fresh-
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore ten dollars; il
Junior fifteen dollars and, az Sc nior twenty
dollars.