The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-02
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


VNHE Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
L under it's present organization, consists OF the
following named ProfessorshiPs, to wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A ProfessorshiP of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages.
A Professorship Of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies. Letters,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Profcssorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yearis divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty one weeks each. The first scs-
sion commenced on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April Each ir followed by avacaton Of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman Glass;. Livy begun; Xenophon 3
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
| Geometry five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
thcus of Eschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
oogy; Evidences Of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pncu-
Sophomore CLAss.Ef. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amcitia and deScnectute Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. PoliticalP hilosophy The An
Ill, nF
! Acoustics, Optics, Electricity Magnetism.
ii. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co.
! roma; Voltac Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
| mics Astronomy, begun.
iii. The Constitution of the United States; As
| tronomy, fnished The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Ap-
paratus, that furnishes ample means of xper rimen-
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly in tn:
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
| advanced state ofthe PhysicalScences.
EXAMINATIONS
AT the close of feachstudy, or branch ofstudy, the
| members of the class carefully examined and
at the close of the year, all the studies Of The year
III the presence oil Committee OF the Trustees nd
their attainments arc communicated to the Board
| of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and evening drawer
di, me worship is held twice on every Sunday, a nd
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysi in tn.
| Greek Testament At the request of his parent OF
guardian, a student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself or the parent o,
guardian may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each Of the different places of wor.
ship, presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist, }
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors ,oiM their (ami
lies will reside in the College buildings and vii
| board, at a common taoro, with the students who
are required to occupy such rooms as nay be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In orderto admission TO pursue the cntirccourse
a student must be at least fourteen years Of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and ustsustain an examination "a the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek q rammar Jacobs 'sor Felton, G. reek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis.
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader Sallust or
Crsar, Cicero's Select 0rations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTRANcr FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh-
man. five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
MS Junior, ftccn dolars and, ifas Senior twenty
dollars.
LIST Session, ID Sessio,