The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-06
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

TINE Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution,
Il under its prcsent organization, consists Of the
following named PToiessorships, to wit:
Proiessorship Of Mental and Moral Science
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
A Profcssorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Profossorship of Chemistry and Natural His
Profcssorship of Civil Engineering,
A Profcssorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate ycaris 3 divided into two session
or terms, oftwenty-one weeks each. TWe first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April. Eachis followed by avacation offive weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman 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
ILL., Horace, begun; Homcr's Odyssey, finished
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUsIoR CLAss.--I racitus, begun; The Prone
thcus Of iEschylus and Electra ofSophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences OF Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tactus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Metcorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia md de Scnectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
iii. Cicero de Ofhclis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss.--I Political philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity Magnetism.
ii. Elements Of Criticisms Buffers Analogy ;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gavanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
H. 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 Ap-
paratus, that furnishes ample means of ex 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, in the
purchase ofnew apparatus, adapted to the present
advancedst state ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS
Al the close each study or branch of study, the
members of the class are carefully examined and
at the close of the year. in all the studies of the vea,
in the presence ofa Committee Of the Trustees and
their attainments arc communicated to the Board
ofTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
ln addition to daily mornin g and evening PRAYER.
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday md
the recitation on Monday morning Ia alwaysin 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, Episcopalian, and Methodist
in tho village, and note all abscntces
Two, at least, of the Professors tciM their faui
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at common table, with the students VIII,
are required to occupy such rooms as may be a.
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
in ordcrt admission TO pursue the cntirecou
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 Grammar Jacob Fel ton = G. rcek Rea der
and the fret two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cmsar, Ciccro's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
EsTRAScE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh.
man, hvc dollars; If Sophomore ten dollars; If
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, ifas Senior twenty
dollars