The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-19
No. l84.
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


rINHE Faculty Of Instruction Of this Institution,
| under it's present organization, consists Of the
following named Proiessorships, 70 wit;
Professorship OF Mental and Moral Science,
Prolessorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
A Profesoorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Proiessorship of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yeari is divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenty- -one weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday OF Octo
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April. Each is followed by avacation offse weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLAss.-I. Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy finished; Homer 8 Odyssey, begun; Al
gebra finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinucd.
IN. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschy lus. and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finisbed Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis o!
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SopHoMonE Glass; Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, inished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Sencctute Herodo-
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Oihcis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Eeonctry' begun Rhetoric
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Arstophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Nagnetism.
a Rnfl l,r's A1,i ircrV, .
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthcnes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
ILL., The Constitution of the United Statcs As
ronomy, finished; The Science OF Heat; Thermo-
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 present
advanced state ofthe Phy5ica Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
AT the close of each study, or branch ofstudy the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close of the year. in all the studies of the ye0t
in the presence ofa Committee of the Trustees and
their attainmcnts are communicated TO the Board
ofTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin 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 the Faculiy y
will attend at each of the different places of
ship (Presby terian, Episcopalian, aud Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two at least Of the Professors, I0ih their JImi-
lies will reside in the College buildings, and will
board at a common table, with the students, who
g re required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty
ADMISSION.
In orderto admission to pursue the entrcooursc
n student must be At least fourteen years Of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination ia the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacob sor Felton, @ rcek Reader,
and the first two books Of Xenophoa's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EsrRAScE FEE.-lf the student enter rs Fresh
man. five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; If
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior twenty
dollars.
LIST Session. I'd Session.