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I. ANCIENT LANGUAGES.

Professor Harrison.—In this School are taught the Latin and Greek
languages; the Greek and Roman History, Geography, and Literature; and
the Hebrew language. The instruction is given partly by lectures and examinations,
and partly by comments on portions of the text-books appointed to be
read by the student. It embraces the following subjects, distributed according
to the classes.

I. Junior Latin.—1. General principles and doctrines of the Etymology.

2. The application of these general principles in the explanation of the formation
and composition of the words of the language, considered individually,
and without regard to their relations to other words in a sentence.

The doctrine of the primary and secondary significations of words is considered
in connection with this branch of the subject, and is illustrated in the lectures
from day to day as occasion may offer.

3. The accidence, or inflectional forms of words, expressing the relations in
which they stand to other words in a sentence. These modifications of the
forms of words are in like manner explained by the application of the general
principles of the etymology.

4. The Syntax, or laws which govern the relations existing between the
several parts of a sentence or a discourse, whether indicated by the inflections
of words, or by particles. This subject is treated of partly in lectures specially
devoted to it, partly by way of prelections and comment on the portions of authors
read in the lecture room, and partly in connection with the written exercises.

For the above subjects the text books are the professor's printed notes, and
Zumpt's Latin Grammar.

5. The doctrine of the quantity of syllables, and the metres. The students
are advised to use Carey's Latin Prosody, or Anthon's Prosody, which contains
what is most useful in Carey's.

6. The Latin authors used as text books are Horace, Virgil, Cicero's Orations,
and his Epistles ad Diversos, Terence, and Cæsar's Commentaries.
The last chiefly with a view to the written exercises.

II. Senior Latin.—1. Prelections and commentaries on portions of the classic
authors, embracing, besides the other matters necessary for the better understanding
of these, a further development of the doctrines of philology taught
in the Junior Class.

The text books are Horace, Juvenal, Livy, and Tacitus.

2. Geography of Ancient Italy.—The professor's printed notes form the text
book. The maps of ancient and modern Italy, published by the "Society for
the diffusion of useful knowledge," are recommended.

3. Roman History. This subject is taught by prelections, and by examinations
on the text books. These are the History of Rome published by the
"Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge," Niebuhr's History of Rome,
Ferguson's Roman Republic, and Heeren's Manual.

III. Junior Greek.—1. The Etymology, considered in its general principles
and in its applications, the Syntax, and the Prosody and metres, are taught to
this class in the same way as to the Junior Latin.

For these subjects Buttmann's larger Greek Grammar is the text book.
Thiersch's Tables of the Greek verb, by Patton, are referred to and recommended.

The Greek authors read and explained in the lecture room, are Xenophon's
Anabasis, Herodotus, and a play of Æschylus or Euripides. The Greek and
English Lexicon of Donnegan is that preferred.

IV. Senior Greek.—1. Prelections and commentaries on portions of the
Greek classic authors, in the same way as in the Senior Latin class, and embracing
the like subjects.

The Greek authors used as text books in this class are Euripides, Sophocles,
Thucydides, and Homer. The student should have Matthiae's Greek Grammar,
5th edition of the translation.

2. Ancient Geography of Greece. The printed notes of the professor form
the text.

3. Ancient History of Greece. It is taught by prelections, and by examinations
on the text books. These are Thirlwall's History of Greece, Gillies'
History of Greece, and Heeren's Manual.

It is expected of the students of Latin and Greek, that they shall read in
their rooms such authors and parts of authors, prescribed by the Professor, as
cannot be read in the lecture room: e. g.: Cicero's Epistles to Atticus, his Orations
(selected,) and Treatise "de Republica;" Sallust, Virgil, Terence, Plautus:
Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Æschines,
Thucydides, &c.

As an essential part of the plan of instruction, the students of each class are
required to furnish written exercises; which consist in the conversion of Latin
or Greek into English, and of English into Latin or Greek. The exercises
are examined by the Professor, and the errors marked: they are then returned
to the students, and the corrections stated and explained in the presence of the
class. For these exercises the classic authors are used as the text.

V. Hebrew.—The text books are Biblia Hebraica, Stuart's Hebrew Grammar,
3rd edition, and Gesenii Lexicon Manuale Hebr. et Chald., or Sauerwein's
edition of Rehkopf's Lex. Hebr. Chald.