Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-01-06
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

HE Faculty Of instruction Of this Institution under
i present organisation, consists OF the following
Professorship 81 Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Languages.
proiessorship Of Mathematics ana Natural Phiioso
1ProSsssorship OF Rhetoric and BellesLettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural History,
A PROFESSIONALLY of Civil Engineering,
Professorship Of Modern Languages and Drawing.
The Collegiate is divided into two sessions or terms
ON the fourth Wednesday Of 0ctober and the second
the fourth Wednesday Of April. Each is followed by
vacation Of FIVE weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I IAyy, begun; Xenophon's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun History, begun.
u Ivy finished Homsrs ; Odyssey n Sssg1n Algebra
I'LL Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished; Go
ometry, five books; History, finished.
Eschylus and Electra OF Sophocles Geometry
fnished Calculus; Natural Theology Evidences ofChrs
IL Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestus Of Eur-
pdes Tactus finished; Natural Philosophy Mechanics
In. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The Captive
of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrosatics, Pneumatics and
Meteoroogy.
Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhetoric, begun.
IL Cicero dc Amicta and de Senectute; Herodotus
begun; Plane Trigonomery; Spherical Trigonometry;
III Cicero de Ofcs; Herodotus finished; Surveying;
Analytical Geometry begun; p Rhetoric, finished a
Terrence The Clouds of Aristophanes Acoustics Optics
Electricity, Magnetism.
Ii. Elements Of Crtcism Buffers Analogy; Cicero's
Tusculan Questions Demosthenes dc Corona; yoltaic
Electricity or Galvanism Electro Magnetism Magnetic
Electricity, Electro-D ynamics; Astronomy, begun
ILL., The Constitution Of the United states; Astronomy
finished The Science Of Heat Thermo Electricity; Chem
istry and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample means Of experimental illustration
in all the different branches Of Natural Philosophy The
of three thousand dollars 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 of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close Of each study branch Of study, the
bers Of the class carefully examined and at the close
Of the year. IN all ne studies Of the year. in the presence
Of Committee of the Trustees and their attanments
communicated to the Board of Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer, d.
vine worship is held twice every Sunday, and the rec
taon Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesla
ment At the request of his parent guardian student
the parent guardian may select One member Of the
Faculty will attend at each of the different places of
ship presbyterian, Episcopaan, and Methodis in the
village, and note all absentees
Two at least of the Professors ,oith their families will
reside in the College buildings and will board at
table with the Students who required to occupy
such rooms as may be assigned them by the Faculty
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
student must be at least fourteen Of must give
satisfactory evidence Of good moral character and must
sustain examination in the following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs Feltons Greek Reader and the first
two books Of Xenophon's Anabass Jacobs behring's
Latin Reader, Sallust Caesar Cceros Select Orations
and Virgil or what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEEIf the student enter as Freshman, FIVE
dollars; Sophomore ten dollars If Junior, fifteen
dollars; and If as Senior, twenty dollars.