The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-10
DAILY.
WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH TO- 1876
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

ELAyVARE COLLEGE.
TIME Faculty Of Instruction OF this Institution
i under its present organization, consists of the
following named Professorships to wit:
| A Profcssorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies. Letters,
| A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His.
tory,
| A Profes5orship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
| ing.
The Collegiate yearis dividcdinto twosessions
sion commen on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Eachis followed by nvacation offve weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| Ii. Livy, fnished; Homer's Odyssey begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
| JUNIOR CLAss.-I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
| theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
| III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tectus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
I
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatcs ,Pncu-
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.--I. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rheto-
| ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia ind de Senectute; Herodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| H. Cicero de Oficiis Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
| SENIOR Glass; PoiticalP hilosophy; The An
| dria Of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
| Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Ma gnetism.
| H. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tuscu Ian Questions; Demosthenes de Co
| rona Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
| Ill The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, fnishcd; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
| Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Ap
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 tn q
| 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 ofeach study or branch of study the
members of the class carefully examined and
at the close of the year, all the studies of the yea
in the presence OF Committee of the Trustees and
| their attainncnts are communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
! RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition TO daily morning and evenin prayer,
di, me worship is held twice on every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. Al the request of his parent or
guardian, u student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member ofthe Faculty
will attend 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, toih their fapsi-
lies will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at n common ta.oie, with the students who
| are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty
ADMISSION.
la orde to admission to pursue the cntirecoursc
q student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain IN examination N the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
creek G ramnar Jacob or FELTON, G reek Reader,
and the fret two books of Aenophon's Anabass,
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
| Cesar Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRAHcE FEE.-If the student enter al Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.