The republic., 1852-01-06
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty OF Instruction Of this Institution ui-
deri present organization, consists Of the follow
Ing named Proicssorships, To wit;
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Proiessorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lcttrcs,
Professorshp Of Chemistry and Natural His
A PROFESSIONALLY Of Civil Engineering,
AProfcssorship Of Modern nLanguagcsandDraw
The Collegiate yearis divided into two sessions
or terms, OF twenty one weeks each The Grst ses
sion commences on the fourth "Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed byavacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRKsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History flushed.
JcNIoRHLAss.-l 1acitus, begun, The Prone
theus Of Eschylu and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Earipides; Tacitus, fnishcd Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Pato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and McteoroIogy.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rhcto
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
ILL., Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss.-I PoliticalP Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Ma gnetism.
II. Elements Of Criticism Buffers Analogy !;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Dcmosthcnes de Co.
roma; Yoltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-Dyna
mcs; Astronomy, begun.
Ill The Constitution Of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means Of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural 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 close each study, or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined and
at the close of the year in aHhe studies Of the yea
in the presence ofa Committee Of the Trustees; and
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evenin q prayer
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
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 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, ,cM their fani-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
| arc required to occupy such rooms as may be as-
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission TO pursue the entire course,
a student must be at least fourteen years OF age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
charactcr; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek G rammar Jacob or Felton's rcek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophons Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Salust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTRAHcE FEE--If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.