SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Prof. Peters.
This School is divided into three classes, Junior, Intermediate and Senior.
Junior Class.—A student who is able to read Cæsar or Vergil, and has
a proper acquaintance with the Forms, is prepared to enter this class. The
class begins with Sallust or a writer of like difficulty. Systematic attention
is given to the study of the Forms. The Syntactical work is the study of the
Case-relations, the exact force of the Tenses, and a consecutive outline of the
connections in which the Subjunctive Mood is required. Principles and facts
explained are applied by frequent exercises in Latin Composition. The
reading is confined to selected portions of Sallust, Ovid, Curtius, and Vergil.
A limited amount from each author is prescribed for private reading. For
the examinations, passages are selected for translation from the Latin assigned
as private reading. There are two examinations—the Intermediate, held
about the middle of the session, the Final, at its close; these examinations
are conducted in writing.
Intermediate Class.—Work in this class will be directed to the acquirement
of readiness in translation and syntactical interpretation, with as little
specialistic investigation as is consistent with a general but sound and permanent
knowledge of the language. As an indispensable auxiliary to this
end written exercises in translating English into Latin and Latin into
English will be required. Proper attention will be given to Roman History
and Literature. The metrical work will be limited to the structure and
accurate recitation of the Dactylic, Anapæstic, Trochaic, and Iambic verses,
with the verses occurring in the odes of Horace. Translation will be confined
to Livy, Horace, Cicero, Seneca, or Tacitus. Selections from each
author will be assigned as parallel reading. There will be two written
examinations—Intermediate and Final.
Senior Class.—This class commences with Juvenal or Livy, and reads
during the session selected portions of Juvenal, Livy, Cicero, Seneca, Tacitus,
or a play of Plautus. The Case-relations are reviewed, and the Syntax
of the Verb is systematically presented. Latin versification is taken up
early in the session, and continued throughout the term. A theoretical
acquaintance with this subject is insufficient. Prompt identification and
correct recitation of every variety of Latin verse is insisted upon. A very
prominent place is assigned to Latin Composition as an indispensable means
of acquiring an exact knowledge of the Language. Portions of the authors
read in the Lecture-room are designated as parallel and private reading.
The object of parallel reading is to enable a student to acquire a more
copious vocabulary than is furnished by the limited amount of Latin read in
the Lecture-room, and to afford a wider field for the application of the
principles explained in the Lectures. In this class there are two examinations—one
occurring about the middle of the session, the second at its
close. The examinations are conducted in writing. For the second or
Final examination, passages for translation are selected partly from the
parallel and partly from Latin which the class has not read. In this class
due attention is given to Roman History and Literature.
Text-books.—Any approved editions of the authors above named.
Grammars—Gildersleeve's, Syntax of the Verb by the Professor, Printed Lectures by
the Professor on the Latin Cases and Versification.
History—Liddell's, with Long's or any approved Atlas.
Literature—Bender's, as a Hand-book and Guide, supplemented by Lectures.
Sanskrit.—The Professor will also give instruction in the elements of
Sanskrit whenever a sufficient number of students desire it.
