II.—MODERN LANGUAGES.
Professor Blættermann.—The languages taught in this school, are
the French, Spanish, Italian, German and Anglo Saxon; and if desired,
will also be taught, the Danish, Swedish, Hollandish and Portuguese languages.
In each of them, there are two classes, the senior and the junior,
together with a third class for those who wish to qualify themselves for de-degrees
in this school, as it is required that two degrees be obtained in modern
languages before that of A M. will be conferred. Besides the oral translations
in the lecture room, the students are required to write, as regular
exercises out of the lecture rooms, translations from the foreign language
into English, and vice versa. Lectures on the Literature of each of the
nations whose languages are taught, are delivered twice a week, by the Professor;
and also lectures on Modern History, and the political relations of
the different civilized nations of the present day. The text-books used are
the principal classics in each language.
