The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-22
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

TJNIIE Faculty OF Instruction of this Institution
i under its present organization, consists Of the
following named Professorships, to wit:
A Proicssorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship OF the Greek and Latin Lam
guages
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural lis
A Profcssorshp Of Civil Engineering,
Profcssorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate ycaris divided into twoscssion
or terms, oftwcnty- one weeks each. The first
sion cotnlne on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April. Each is followed byavacation offve weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FnEsHmAN CLASS. Il. Liyy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; Al
finued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUNIOR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished Calculus; Natural The
| oogy; Evidences Of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mentl Philosophy; The Alcestis o.
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; Th,
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pncu
sopHoMoRE CLAes1f Horace, finished Keno.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, 6nished Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uomctry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric
finished.
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Ciccro's Tusculan Questions; Dcmosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gayanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro 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 A p
paratus that furnishes ample means of oxpermcn-
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 are carefully examined and
in the presence OF Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily mornn and cvenin prayer,
div 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, a 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, (Presbyteran, Episcopalan and Methodist }
in the ' iliagc, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors trith their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required TO occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In orderto admission TO 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 an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek G rammar, Jacob or elton 3 g rcck Reader,
and the first two books of 4enophon's Anabass,
jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Ca,sar, Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EsrRAScr FEr.-If the student enter as Fresh.
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore, ten dollars; IL
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior twenty
dollars.