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SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Prof. Humphreys.
The School is organized in three classes, the Junior, the Intermediate, and
the Senior. The method of instruction is by lectures, by daily examination
upon the matter of the lectures, and upon assigned portions of the text-books,
and by written and oral exercises.
A full knowledge of the regular Attic inflections and some experience in
translation are necessary as a preparation for the Junior Class. Two books of
Xenophon's Anabasis, or some suitable equivalent, may be regarded as a
proper amount of preparatory reading. Diligent students inadequately prepared
often make good progress with the aid of a Licentiate. (See p. 74.)
The Junior Class is intended to give a practical familiarity with the
simpler Attic prose. The Grammar is rapidly but carefully reviewed; for
translation into Greek, sentences are given out which involve the vocabulary
and the idioms of the Greek texts studied. The authors read are Xenophon
and Lysias. The Geography and Political History of Greece are taught in
this class.
The Intermediate Class, for which the Junior course, or some equivalent,
is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of Attic prose usage,
and enters upon the study of the Drama and of Homer. Weekly exercises
for translation into Greek are given, each being a passage of simple but idiomatic
English based on a Greek author. Selected portions of the Grammar
are closely studied, and the whole Syntax is reviewed. The authors read are
Lysias, Plato, Euripides, and Homer. Instruction in Greek Literature and
Antiquities is given in this class.
The Senior Class demands such attainments as may be acquired in the
two lower classes, or an equivalent. The authors read this session are Demosthenes,
Sophocles, Thucydides, Aristophanes, and the fragments of the Lyric
Poets. The Syntax of the Greek Verb is discussed, and courses of lectures
are given upon Metres and the History of Greek Literature. The weekly
exercises are partly based on ancient authors and partly specially prepared
or taken from standard English writers.
Text-Books.—Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon, Veitch's Greek Verbs, Goodwin's Greek
Grammar, Goodwin's Greek Moods and Tenses, and approved editions of the authors read.
For each class a course of private reading is prescribed, not restricted to
the authors named above.
The state of preparation of a pupil joining the School may often make it
expedient to take two classes at once.
In the examination of candidates for graduation, all the subjects taught
in the School are involved, and the passages set for translation are selected
from the classic writers at will.
Hebrew.—Elementary instruction in Hebrew will be given when the
demand for such instruction is sufficient.
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