The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-08
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

VNIIE 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 Prolcssorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages
A Profcssorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
Proiessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Letters,
Proiessorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Profcssorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yearis divided into twosessions
or terms, oftwcnty weeks each The first ses-
sion commcnceson on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Eachis followed by avacation offve weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAs CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
(Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished
Geometry, five books; Histmy, finished
JUSIoR GLASS;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Kschylus and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana.
lytical G Geometry, finished Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcests o.
Euripdes; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgiaa; The
CapllNc ,HQeu-
matics, and Meteoroogy.
SOPHOMORE GLASS;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto.
ric, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amictia and des senectute; Herodo.
ftus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trgo.
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Oiiicis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An.
lr;a IF Tho Of A..
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Ma gnetsm.
III. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gavansm Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna
mics; Astronomy, begun.
iii. 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 experiment.
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The sum o: three thousand dol
lars 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 fthe Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
tthc close of each study, or branch ofstudy. the
members of the class are carefully examined and
the close of the year in all the studies of the uea,
in the presence ofa Committee of the Trustees nd
their attainments are communicated to the Board
ofTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition TO daily morning and evening gprayer
di, me worship 10 held twice on every Sunday nd
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin the
Greek Testament. At the request of his parent or
guardian, a 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, Episcopaan, and Methodist J
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors tcith their fam,
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common ta.S.e, with the students, who
required TO occupy such rooms as maybe as
signed them by the .aculty.
ADMISSION.
In orderto admission 10 pursue the entirecourse.
a student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain eIaminat i n the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek g rammar j acob' Feton's reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EETRANcr FEK.-If the student enter as Fresb-
man, five dollars; If as Sophomore ten dollars; il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, ifas Senior twenty
dollars.