The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-18
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


YENHE Faculty of Instruction, of this Institution,
l. under its present organization, consists of the
following named Profe5sorships, TO wit
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
Professorship of Mathematics aud Natural
Philosophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Letters,
Prolessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A,Prolessorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yeari5 divided into twosessons
or terms, oftwcnty one weeks each The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April. Eachis followed by avacation offiye weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLAss.--I. Liyy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Honler's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinucd.
III. Horace, begun; Homer'-lo Odyssey, hnirhcd;
Geometry five books History finished.
JUNIOR GLASS;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of H,schylus, and Electra Of Sophocles Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
H. Logic Mental Philosophy; The Acestis Of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
HI. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
matics, and Meteorology
SopaoMoaE Class. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rc, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and eSenectute Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; SpherlcalT Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III Cicero dc Oliicis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric
finished
SENIOR Glass;. Political hilosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| ii. Elements of Criticism Butler's Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co.
| roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gavanism; Electro
| Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna
| mics; Astronomy, begun.
! ILL., The Constitution of the United States; AS
| tronomy, fnished; The Science of Heat; Thermo
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with a Philosophical Ap
paratus that furnishes ample means of experimen.
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ura Philosophy. The sum Of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly in th:s
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus adapted to the present
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
| EXAMINATIONS.
| Atthe close of eachs study or branch ofstudy the
members of the class carefully examined, ano
at the close of the year. all the studies of the yea,
in the presence OF Committee ofthe Trustees; and
| their attanments are communicated to the Board
| of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning a nd evenin gprayer
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday a nd
the recitation on Monday morning is Away 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 OF
guardian may select. One member ofthe Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist J
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors NTH their fani
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and viii
| board, at n common toD,e, with the students who
| are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
| signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In orde to Omission TO pursue the entirecourse
q student must be At least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good mora
| following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek G. rammar, Jacob FELTON, q G. reek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust OF
| Caesar, Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil OF
| what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
| EHTRANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh.
man. FIVE dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
| dollars.