The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-29

DELAWARE COLLEGE,.


DELAWARE COLLEGE.
yINHE Faculty OF Instruction of this Institution,
j. under its present organization, consists Of the
following named Protessorships TO wit:
Proicssorship of Mental and Moral Science.
Proiessorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorahip of Rhetoric and Bellies Lcttres,
Profossorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
A Proicssorship of Civil Engineering,
A Prolessorshp of Modern Languages and Draw
ing; ghs co,,er;a,e ve,ri, d;videainto ,v, ,cs.on
or terms, oftwcnty-one weeks each. The first ses
sion comnlence es on the fourth "Wednesday of Octo-
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April Each is followed by avacation offivc wcess
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FnEsHMAN CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUSIon CLAss.-I Tactus, begun; The Prone
theus of Hschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity
Tf.-Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis ot
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgas; The
Captive OF Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics ,Pneu
s, sopaomonr MOI ie c1aas.12, Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, fnished Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amictia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de OAiciis; Herodotus, finished Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
fnishcd.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. PolticalP philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophancs:
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
II. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy ;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co.
roma; Votaic Electricity or Galvansm Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; 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 D.
parntus, that furnishes ample means of perimen-
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, n the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state fthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close Of each study, orbranch of study the
members OF the class are carefully examined and
ut the close of the year. an all the studies of lie yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees: and
thelr attlnlnCnls communicated to the Board
Of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In additiont to daily morning a nd evenin q PRAYER,
div nc 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, presbyterian, Episcopaian, and Methodist, J
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, OF the Professors. ,oih their (ami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
| board, at common table, with the students, L,J
| arc required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order to admission to pursue the entirccoursc
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 ramnar ,J acob's or Felton, rcek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
EsTRANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior twenty
dollars