The republic., 1852-01-09
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty ofInstruction OF this Institution un-
der its present organization, consists of the follow
Ing named Professorships to witt
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and Natura Phi
A Professorsbip of fRhetorican and Bellies Lettres
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship OF CivilEngineering,
Professorship of Modern Lang gesa nd Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-o one weeks each The first
sion commences on the fourth w ednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Eachis followed by avacation off five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREEMAN CLAss.-I. Livy begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
IL. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
| tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, dnished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUNIOR CLAss-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Eschylu and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana.
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
IL: Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostaiics Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, fnished Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and dc sencctute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
iii. Cicero dc Ohiciis; Herodotus, inished Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss--I Pol;ticalPhosophy: The An.
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Arstophsnes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
IL. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demoathenes de Co
roma; Votaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. 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
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
at the close of the year. all the studies of the uea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainmcnts arc communicated to the Board
OF ofIrustccs.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evenn Q prayer,
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning Is always in 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, Episcopaian and Methodist \
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors tcifh their funi-
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at n common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In orderto admission to pursue the entire course,
student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
character; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and
creek g rammar Jacob or FELTON, S G rec Reader
and the first two books Of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
EsTRANcE FEK.-If the student enter as Fresh |
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.