The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-21
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


i under its prescnt organization, consists of the
following named ProfessorshiPs, to wit:
Proiessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Prolessorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Profcssorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year ia divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty one weeks each The first ses-
sion CONNIE nc es on the fourth Wednesday of Octo,
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April Each is followed by vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION
FREsmnAs CLAss.-I Liyy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
H. Livy, fnished Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
! zebra, finished; Geometry, begun, HISTORY, con-
tinued. ...
m ay,f i've bSos hsrs hEsly nysed Raysseedy
JUNIOR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
| thcus of Eschylus and Electra OF SoPhocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meeorology.
SOPHOMORE GLASS; Horace finished; Keno
Ii. Cicero de Amcitia and de sencctute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trgonomctry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Officiis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
vcyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; rhetoric,
SENIOR CLAss.-.l PolitcalPhilosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophancs
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
II. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Yoltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dynn-
mics; Astronomy, begun
ILL., 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 of 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
advanc cd state ofthc Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close Of each study, or branch fstudy, the
members of the class carefully examined, and
AT the close of the year all the stdies of the ycar
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
Of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning ndevcnng prayer,
div me worship 10 held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request of his parent or
guardian, student is permitted To attend any
place of worship which himself, the parent or
qua rdian, may select One member of the Faculty
will attend at each Of the different places of
chip, Presbyterian, Episcopaian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees
Two at least, of the Professors ,rih their (dmi-
,ics will reside in the College buildings, and will
board at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
| ADMISSION
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
e. student must be at least fourteen years Of age;
| must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
character; and must sustain examination in The
| following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek G. rammar Jacobs Felton's ree1 Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doerng's Latin Reader, Saust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEr.-If the student ter az Fresh
man. FIVE dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and If as Senior, twenty
dollara