Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-03-18
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

INK Faculty Of instruction OF this Institution under
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Langusges,
A Professionally of Mathematics and Natural PhiioSo
Proiessorship OF Rhetoric and Bellies Isttrea,
proessorship Of Chemistry and Natural History,
Proiessorship Of Civil Engineering,
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
OF twentyone weeks each The first session commences
on the fourth Wednesday Of oStober and the second on
vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I Ivy, begun; xenophon's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
IL Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun; History, continued;
III. Horace, begun; Horners Odyssey finished; Ge-
ometry FIVE books History, finished.
JUNIOR CLASS Tacitus, begun; The Prometheus Of
Eschylus and Electra Of sophocles Analytical Geometry,
finished Calculus Natural Theology Evidences ofChris-
tanty.
pides; Tacit finished Natural Philosophy; Mechanics,
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgss The Captive
Of Pautuaj Mechanics Hydrostatics, Pneumatcs' and
sopHoMoRR GLASS; Horace Finished; Xenophon's
Memorabilia Geometry finished; Rhetoric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Scnecute; Herodotus,
begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigonometry
Rhetoric, continued.
III Cicero de Oficiis Herodotus fnished Surveying
Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric, finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I Political Philosophy; The AndIia Of
Tarrence The Clouds of Arisophanes Acoustics, Optics
Electricity, Magnetism.
II. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy; Cceros
Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona voltac
Electricity Gsvanisni; Eectro-Magnetism, Magnetic.
Electricity, Electro I)ynamics; Astronomy, begun.
III The Constitution Of the United States Astronomy,
finished; The Science of Heat; Thefo Electricity Chem
istry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS
The College provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample of experimental illustration
Ia 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 apparatus adapted to the present
advanced state of the Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS
the close Of each study or branch of study the
of the year. all the studies Of the year. in the presence
of Committee of the Trustees; and their attachments
are communicated to the Board of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer, di.
vine worship is held twice every Sunday and the rec
taon Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesla
men At the request of his parent guardian, student
Is permitted to attend any place Of worship which himself
the parent guardian select One member OF the
Faculty will attend at each Of the different places of
village, and note all absentees.
Two least Of the Professors aoh their families, will
mon table with the students who required to occupy
such rooms may be assigned them by the Faculty
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
student must be at least fourteen years Of must give
satisfactory evidence of good moral character and must
sustain an examination in the following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs Feton's Greek Reader and the first
two books of Xenophons Anabasis, Jacobs behring's
Latin Reader, Sallust Cesar Cceros Select Oratons
and Virgil or what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE--If the student enter Freshman five
dollars; if as Sophomore ten dollars if Junior, fifteen
dollars; and if as Senior, twenty dollars