LDHyy /^r/ CIRCULAR AND PLAN OF ENDOWMENT DELAWAEE COLLEGE. Jf^tDark, JBtiamavt. f^ PHILADELPHIA: KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, No. 9 SANSOM STREET. 1851. Admission. — In order to admission, to pui.., a student must be at least fourteen years of age, must give sau&... evidence of good moral character, and must sustain an examination in the following studies, viz. : — Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek Grammar, Greek Reader and the First two books of Xenophon^s Anabasis; Latin Reader, Sallust or Ccesar, Cicero'' s Select Orations, and Virgil — or what shall Ibe deemed equivalent. Commencement is on the third Wednesday in July. The Collegiate Year is divided into Three Terms. The First Term begins six weeks after Commencement, and continues sixteen weeks. The Second Term begins on the first Wednesday in January, and continues twelve weeks. The Third Term begins four weeks after the close of the Second, and continues twelve weeks. Vacations. — After Commencement, six weeks ; after the First Term, two weeks; after the Second Term, four weeks. vieometry, five books .^ , iiiiislied. History, finished. ©(Q)[F'[M](Q)[}^(Q)[K^[1 ©L/h^^a Horace, finislied. 1. Geometry, finished. Xenophon'g Memorabilia. Rhetoric, begun. II. Cicero de Amicitia, and de Plain Trigonometry; Spherical Senectute. Trigonometry. Herodotus, begun. Rhetoric, continued. m. Cicero de Oflaciis. Surveying; i\Tia.lytical Geometry, Herodotus, finished. begun. i — Rhetoi ic, finished. 5 1 ou T ©[L^©©. Tacitus, begim. X. Analytical Geometry, finished; Calculus. The Prometheus of ^schylus Natm-al Theology ; Evidences and Electra of Sophocles. n. of Christianity. Logic; Mental Philosophy. Tacitus, finished. The Alcestis of Euripides. Ill Natural Philosophy ; Mechanics, begun. Moral Philosophy. The Captivi of Plautus. Plato's Gorgias. Mechanics, Hydi-ostatics, Pneu- matics and Meteorology. Political Philosophy. I. The Clouds of Aristophanes. The Andria of Terrence. Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism. ©l[?5Q(o)[^ ©[LZ^§©o 11. Elements of Criticism ; Butler s Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism. Analogy. Electro-Magnetism, Magneto- Cicero's Tusculan Questions. Electricity, Electro - Dyna- , Demosthenes de Corona. mics. Astronomy , begun. III The Constitution of the United The Science of Heat ; Thermo- States. Electricity. Astronomy, finished. Chemistry and Geology. 6 In tLe Greek and Latin course, a careful review of the Grammar Tvill be made at the outset ; and a regidar sj-stem of progi'essive exercises in writing both languages Tvill be pursued throughout. It thus becomes necessary to insist upon uniformity in the appropriate text-books. Every student "will, therefore, be required, on enterirg, to provide himself "with Andrews' and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, Crosby's Greek Grammar, and Arnold's Introduction to Greek and Latin Prose Composition. Subsidiary studies, [Ancient Geography, Antiquities, etc.) "will be taught by occasional oral lectures. In Surveying, opportunity "wiU be given for practice, under the eye of the Professor. Chemistry is taught chiefly by experimental lectures. PMlosopMcal Apparatus. — The College is provided -with a Philosophical Apparatus, that furnishes ample means of experimental illustration in all the different branches of Natiu-al Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dollars has recently been expended, partly in this country, and partly in London and Paris, in the pirrchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present advanced state of the 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 each year, the students are examined in all the studies of the year in the presence of a Committee of the Trustees, and their attainments are communicated to the Board of Trustees. EeligioTis Instruction. — In addition to daily morning and evening prayer, divine worship is 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 a student is permitted to attend any place of worship, which himself, or the parent or guardian, may select. Residence. — The students reside in the College, and occupy such rooms as may be assigned them by the Faculty. Two members of the Faculty constantly reside in the College. Entrance Fee. — If tlie student enters as Freshman, $5 ; if as Sophomore, $10; if as Junior, §15; and if as Senior, $20. FIRST TERM. SECO>T> TERM. THIRD TERSr. Tuition $16 00 $12 00 $12 00 Koom Rent 4 00 3 00 3 00 Fuel for Oratory and Recitation Rooms 75 75 Janitor's Wages 75 75 75 Use of Library . 75 75 50 Incidental Expenses 75 75 75 $28 00 $18 00 $17 00 The Bill for each Term to be paid in advance. The charge for tuition may be remitted to students designed for the Ministry. The Fee for instruction in Modern Languages, is $8 per Term. Board may be had in the College, at a table -with Professors and their families, or in the Village, from $ 1 75 to $ 2 00 per week. Washing at the usual rates. Fuel is furnished to the Students at cost. These charges will he stnctly adhered to, never exceeded. N. B. — A student -who does not return punctually at the commencement of the Term, forfeits his room, and cannot take his place in his class unless he present a satisfactory excuse from his parent or. guardian, and sustain an examination in the studies pursued by the class during his absence. The same rule applies to such as lose any part of their course by absence during the Term, unless specially excused by the Faculty. siiEWTirii mmniMm By an Act of tlie Legislature, passed at Dover, February 10, 1851, a Scientific School, of an Mgh order, is now connected with the College, offering rare facilities to those who do not intend to pursue the full and regular course. €^t ItaMrs nf tliis Irlinnl m nmngA mhx i^t /allnining BrpnrtiiinitH : I. — A Mathematical Department : — In which, beginning with Arithmetic and Algebra, the Student will be carried, seriatim, through all the higher branches of the Mathematics, ending in their application to Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, etc. II. — An English Department : — Comprising instruction in Grammar, Elocution, Geography, History, Composition, Rhetoric, Logic, Intellectual Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Political Grammar, Story on the Constitution, Philosophy, Ornithology, Natural Theology, Elements of Criticism and Evidences of Christianity. m. — A Mercantile Department : — In which will be imparted an acquaintance with all that is necessary to qualify youth for the immediate duties of the counting-house ; including, 1st. — Penmanship. — By an original and popular system of this art, which invariably produces a bold, finished hand, peculiarly adapted to the purpose of the accountant and business man. 2d, — Arithmetic. — Comprising numerous abbreviated methods of computing Interest, Discount, Equation of payments, etc., and other Mercantile calculations founded on per centage ; — together with all such operations as are requisite for a thorough knowledge of the business of the counting-room. Sd. — Booh-Keeping. — Single and Double Entry — by the most approved methods. A complete course of instruction in this branch will be fiu-nished, designed to fit the Student to take charge of any set of Account Books. IV. — An Agricultural Department : — Comprising a selection from the English and Mathematical courses; and also, Surveying, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Chemistry, and Agricultural Chemistry ; — the last two illustrated by experimental lectures. V. — A Civil Engineer Department : — In which are taught Arithmetic, (mental and written,) Algebra, (mental and written,) Geometry, Trigonometry, Surveying, (with the use of instruments in the field,) Practical Engineering, Architecture, Perspective Draughting and Topography. VI. — A Teachers' Department : — The course of study will consist of a judicioiis selection of subjects from the other departments, including all the branches pursued in our common schools. Practical Lectures will also be given on School Teaching, both as a science and as an art. Pupils will not only thus receive the fullest instruction, relative to the best and most popular methods of teaching, but they will also have opportunities of exemplifying them, by hearing recitations in the lower departments of the institution. VII. — A Department of Modern Languages : — In which students who wish to take a thorough course can have an opportunity of doing so ; while others, whose object may be to acquire sufficient knowledge to translate with facility, and to pronounce with tolerable correctness, in as short a time as possible, are also provided for. Systematic Instruction will be given in Elocution by lectures, and otherwise, and frequent exercises in Declamation and in English Composition be required of all the students connected with the Institution. 10 1 1 A mere glance at the above range of studies is sufficient to convince i any one of tlieir practical bearing and of their complete adaptation i ! to the wants of our time and of the Peninsula. Degbees are conferred upon those completing a course in this school. — Thus a Diploma is granted to such as pursue a course of study in the Teachers' Department and fit themselves for this important ■work. Application for Admission to be made to REV. W. S. F. GRAHAM, A.M., President of Delaware College. Newark, Del. [D)[i[L^M^[^[io i On the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad, ahout three hours ride { from either city. e f ^ s u i A i. ij This Department of Delaware College, through the liberality of j the State Legislature and the Board of Trustees, is endowed with ij rare advantages as an Academy, while it enjoys peculiar additional j! privileges from its connexion with the College proper. jj The Buildings, which are new, are large and convenient, and ij fully provided with all the necessary fixtures of a complete jj Boarding establishment ; the smaller building is divided into rooms : j suitable for private study. The furniture of the study-rooms and jj dormitories has been chosen with particular reference to the M I: comfort and convenience of the student ; and no expense has been spared in providing all the apparatus necessary to render the means of instruction complete — giving to Newark Academy facilities for private study and comfortable accommodation of students, fully equal to those afforded by many of our Colleges. From its relation to the College, students of the Academy enjoy many advantages not generally obtained at institutions of this kind. Those who wish to pursue some particular branch, which falls more properly within the College course, may be admitted, as 12 irregular students, to recite in any of tlie College classes. Students also of proper age and discretion, by recommendation of the Principal and permission of the Faculty, may enjoy the use of the j College Library without additional charge. Admission also may be i had to the Lectures and to such other privileges of the College as 1 can be profitably enjoyed by Academical Students. : — ■♦•*■ INCLUDES THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OP A SUBSTANTIAL ENGLISH EDUCATION, AS WELL AS THE 1 1 [JSUAL PREPARATION FOR COLLEGE. 1 1 It comprises an English course ; a Classical course ; and a course J of Modern Languages the studies of which are as follows : ENGLISH. STUDIES. AUTHORS. Orthography. Penmanship. Pveading . Russell's Elocutionist. Geography . . Mitchell's. Grammar Brown's. History . Willard's. Arithmetic Thomson's Series. Algebra . Davies'. Mensuration . Bonnycastle's. 1 Geometry . . Davies'. Surveying, with use of Instru- ments . Davies'. 1 Natural Philosophy Gray's. Chemistry . . Draper's. Book-keeping . Marsh's. Composition . Parker's Aids. ' Elocution. ! Those who wish to study Agricultural Chemistry, or any of the Natural Sciences, may attend the Lectures on these subjects at the College. L- ^-.- - . 1 13 LATIN. STUDIES. Latin Grammar . Latin Reader . Cornelius Nepos Caesar's Commentaries Latin Prosody . Virgil Cicero's Orations Sallnst . Horace Cicero de Officiis . AUTHORS. Andrews' and Stoddard' Andrews'. Arnold's. Andrews'. Moore's. Cooper's. Abbott's. Andrews'. Lincoln's. Dillaway's. Cicero de Senectute et Amicitia Dillaway' GBEEK. Greek Grammar Greek Lessons Greek Reader . Xenopbon's Anabasis Homer's Odyssey Xenophon's Memorabilia Greek Syntax. Greek Testament. Sophocles' and Crosby's. Sophocles'. Felton's. Owen's. Owen's. Robbins'. Throughout the Classical Course, frequent recitations in Ancient Geographg, Greek and Roman Antiquities and Mythology, with Exercises and Translations of English into Greek and Latin. Andreivs' Latin Lexicon, and LiddelVs ^ Scotfs Greek Lexicon, are particularly recommended. (^^^^Js^r^ 14 FRENCH. Grammar; Ollendorff's. Extraits Dramatiques; CoUot's. Elementary French Reader; Firas. Picot's Series. Dictionary ; Surrene's. SPANISH. Grammar; Ollendorff's. Colmena Espanola. Grammar; Jose's. Cartas Marruecas. Gil Bias. Don Quixote. Dictionary ; Neuman's. ITALIAN. Grammar; Ollendorff's. Poesie Italiene. NouYelle Italiene. Prose Italiene. Dictionary ; Graglia's. GEKMAN. Grammar; Ollendorff's. Fables; Lessing's, German Reader; Adler's. Schiller's Works. Dictionary ; Flugel's. In this department, those Students who wish to take a thorough course, have an opportunity of doing so ; while others, whose object may be to acquire sufficient knowledge to translate with facility, and to pronounce with tolerable correctness, in as short a time as possible, are also provided for. Jg@°" Systematic instruction is given in Elocution, and Exercises in Declamation and in English Composition, are statedly required of all the Students. 15 I Expenses. — The cliarge for Boarding, Wasliing, Fuel, Light, j etc., with tuition in English, Latin and Greek, is $70 for the I Summer Session, and $75 for the Winter Session. The only extra is a fee of $10 to the Professor of Modern Languages, from those who enter any of his classes. Those who study in their rooms during the winter term, will also incur their proportion of the expense of a private fire. The bill for each term must be paid in advance ; and in case of absence occasioned by sickness, the proper portion will be refunded. Candidates for the ministry will not be charged for tuition. ]^^jVo extras need be feared. Terms and Vacations. — The Academic year is divided into two terms or sessions of twenty-one weeks each. The first commences five weeks after the fourth "Wednesday in September ; and the second, five weeks after the fourth Wednesday in March. Each is followed by a vacation of five weeks. The proper time to enter is at the beginning or middle of a session, but admission may be obtained at other times, if desired. It is important that students for the whole session be present at the formation of the classes, on the first or second day of the term. Besides the opportunity of selecting a room, it is no inconsiderable advantage to obtain a fair start with the various classes in the studies to be pursued. Eesidence. — The students board and occupy rooms in the Academy buildings. All the furniture necessary for the accommodation of the pupil is furnished by the Principal. In the smaller house, rooms are furnished, as in colleges, for private study. This privilege will be granted to such older students as prefer it, and whose studious habits and general good conduct will justify it. The smaller hoys will room in the Main Building, under the immediate charge of an experienced llatron, whose special province it will be to attend to the rooms, clothes, and persons of those entrusted to her care. Their studies and recitations will proceed under the eye of their teachers, in the school-room, duiing the day and in the evening. By this arrangement, the neatness, health and comfort 16 of the younger pupils will be effectually secured, whilst their industry and improvement will receive the immediate and constant attention which their age requires. The Gymnasium. — With a view to preserve and promote the general health of the pupils, a Gymnasium has been fitted up, and furnished with all the necessary apparatus. Here the student may find exercise and sport in the stormiest weather. The Library. — An Academical Library of several hundred volumes has been founded, and will be increased from time to time which is accessible to all the students. The College Library will also be open to Academical students of proper age and discretion. — The Literary Society of the Academy, has also its Library. Religious Instruction. — Morning and evening worship is maintained in the school-room, which all the students attend. On the Sabbath, students will attend Church with the teachers and the family, unless permitted, on account of the request of the parent or guardian, to attend one of the other churches in the village ; and in the afternoon a Biblical Exercise, conducted by the Principal and the Teachers. Examinations. — An examination of all the students will be held at the close of each term, in the presence of the Faculty, the Trustees, and such other persons as may wish to attend. Exhibitions in Elocution and Music will also be given at the close of the Sessions. Government. — The government of the school will be gentle, but decided ; maintained by appeals to the affections, the conscience, and honorable feelings of the pupil, rather than by less noble and more violent means. The experience of many years has convinced the Principal that, in nine cases out of ten, a proper development and cultivation of the better qualities of the heart will more effectually bind a pupil to his teacher, and secure obedience, in presence or in absence, than any other means whatever. AVhilst particular attention 17 will be paid to the morals and health of the pupil, a prominent object will be to make scholars. The Principal does not hesitate to pledge himself to parents and guardians who may place their boys under his charge, that where natural defect or sickness does not interfere, his scholars shall make a constant, real and honorable advance in all their studies. Idleness or immorality will not be tolerated. No student will be retained whose conduct furnishes an example dangerous to the morals of his companions, or whose progress in study is not deemed suflScient to justify the expense incurred. Reports. — A report will be sent, at the close of every session, to the parents or guardian of each pupil, presenting a faithful account of his INDUSTRY, SCHOLARSHIP, and GENERAL DEPORTMENT. TheSC reports will be carefully made out from records preserved of all the particular recitations and delinquencies of the pupil. Parents will thus have the satisfaction of knowing the exact standing and improvement of their sons ; while they, on the other hand, will regard themselves as still under the eye of their parents. Notice moreover will be given by letter to the parents of the younger pupils, from time to time, of their progress and conduct. Bills and Pocket Money. — No student is allowed to contract bills at a store or elsewhere, without an order from the Principal. It is desirable that boys should not be allowed much pocket money ; whatever is deemed a suitable allowance should be placed in the hands of the Principal, or one of the other Officers of the school, to be regularly dispensed, in such sums as the parent may prescribe, provided it does not tend to promote indolence or any other vicious habit. Clothes. — It is desirable that each pupil, on entering, should be furnished with a sufficiency of external clothing, and have all his clothes marked with his name in full. He should also have slippers, overshoes, and an umbrella. The Principal enters upon the discharge of his duties, with an experience of twelve years as a Teacher. — He flatters himself 3 18 that he is somewhat faYorably known as such. — Well acquainted with the manner in which the Academy has heretofore been conducted, he deems it but proper to state that he believes a change, in the general management of affairs to be loudly called for, and that he will pursue plans of his own. He feels perfectly satisfied that he can make it what it should be, a school of the first character, and in all respects unobjectionable. By thoroughness in instruction and perfect fairness in our dealings with Parents and Guardians we expect to prosper. REV. W. S. F. GRAHAM, A. M. Principal. Newakk, Del. «!ip ari PS IN DELAWARE GOLLEfiE. Whereas — It is highly important that Delaioare College be endowed with a permanent fund, affording an income, adequate to secure the services of an able Faculty ; and that this fund be BO raised and secured that the persons contributing thereto may receive a fvilly equivalent return in instruction : — Therefore the Trustees of said College do hereby enact — I. That One Thousand Scholarships, at One Hundred Dollars each, be created, and established in Delaware College. II. Any person who shall pay to the Trustees of Delaware College, their Treasurer or authorized agent, the sum of One Hundred Dollars on or before the first day of November, A. D. 1852 — shall be entitled to one Scholarship in said College, and one other Scholarship for every additional sum of One Hundred Dollars which such person may pay as aforesaid ; — Provided that not less than Five Hundred nor more than One Thousand rights shall be sold ; — and Provided also that if less than Five Hundred rights be sold, the said sum or sums of money so paid shall be refunded. III. Said right of Scholarship shall entitle the subscriber, for every sum of One Hundred Dollars so paid, to the tuition of one student in the full course of instruction taught in said College and its Preparatory Department, for the term of twenty years, without further expense, said period commencing at the time said subscriber shall first send a student. 20 IV. The subscriber may send, contemporaneously, as many students as be may think proper, for every sum of One Hundred Dollars, so paid, — Provided that the time occupied by all shall not exceed the period of twenty years. V. A subscription of Five Hundred Dollars, when paid, shall entitle the subscriber or any association of subscribers, to a perpetual Scholarship, to which he or they may appoint any individual he or they may select ; and said Scholarship and all other Scholarships hereby created, shall be regarded as personal property, and subject to such disposition and distribution as other personal property now is or may be by the Laws of the State of Delaware. VI. No subscription shall be considered as binding unless the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars has been actually subscribed for (and paid) by the first day of November A. D, 1852, at which time all subscriptions shall be considered due, and upon the payment of which, scrip shall be issued. The certificate shall be signed by the Treasurer, or other authorized agent of the Corporation. VII. Students who shall be connected with either Department of Delaware College under the right of Scholarship, shall be exempt from all charges for tuition, — but will be assessed, in common with the rest, for all other incidental expenses, and shall be subject, equally with them, to the Laws and Discipline of said Institution. VIII. The fund arising from the sale of these rights shall be invested in such manner as the Trustees of said College shall designate : — and the interest therefrom shall be faithfully, and exclusively applied to the payment of the salaries of the Faculty of the Institution, — and no part of the principal shall be otherwise expended than in the investments aforesaid — to constitute a sacred and inalienable fund. IX. The following shall be the form of subscription, signature to which shall constitute an obligation or bond to pay the sums affixed to the names respectively. " We, the subscribers, promise to pay to the Trustees of Delaware College, on or before the first day of November A. D. 1852 the sums affixed to our names, respectively, for, and in consideration of Scholarships granted to us in accordance with the plan of 21 Scholarships annexed, — ydth the express understanding that -we are not sureties for each other, but responsible only for such sum as is so affixed to our respective names." X. If the charter of Delaware College shall at any time hereafter be discontinued, or when about to expire, be not renewed by the Legislature of the State of Delaware, or for any cause be forfeited — or, if said College shall cease to be an Institution of learning, or its action as such be suspended for a period of three successive years, then, and in that case, the said several subscriptions shall be refunded to the said subscribers, their executors, administrators or assigns, without interest — and thenceforth, the obligation hereby created to give instruction in consideration of such subscriptions shall be null and void. Jl^^'Persons wishing to subscribe for Scholarships, are requested to communicate with the Principal of the CoUege. c^^^j^j^^r^^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 029 913 295 fl LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 029 913 295 A