The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-24
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


TINHE Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution
Il under its present organization, consists of the
following named Professorships, TO wit
Proiessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
ProessorshiP Of the Greek and Latin Ian
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles- Lettres,
Professorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Proiessorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into twosessions
terms, oftwenty one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Eachis followed by avacation offvc weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FnEsHmAs CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
| ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
| gebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History CON
| tinued
| III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished:
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR GLASS. Iacitus, begun; The Prone
| theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
| lytical Geometry fnshed Calculus; Natural The
! ology; Evidences of Christianity
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, ,Hydrostatics Pneu-
matics and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss-I. Horace, finished; Keno.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amicitia nd e Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| ILL., Cicero dc Oficiis Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
| finished
| SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
| drin of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity Magnetism
| I'll. Elements Ans /.
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna
mics; Astronomy, begun.
| III. The Constitution of the United States; As.
tronsmy, 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 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 ths
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 of each study, or branch Of study the
| members OF the class are 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 attanments are communicated to the Board
| OF Trustees.
| RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and eveningp yer,
| div me worship is held twice on every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is 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 ofthe Faculty
will attend at 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 ,pih taeir fagi
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common t-v,e, with the students who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
| signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission 10 pursue the cntirecourse
student must be at least fourteen years of arc:
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination i'm the
! following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin aud
creek q rammar Jacob sor FELTON, = G. rec Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis.
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader Sallust or
Ccsar, Cicero's Select Orations. and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
EHTRASCE FEE.-If the student enter as Frcsb-
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore ten dollars; il
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior twenty
dollars.