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I.—Ancient Languages.

PROFESSOR HARRISON.

ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR, EDWARD S. JOYNES.

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 students.

In Latin there are two classes, a Junior and a Senior; and so
in Greek.

The text-books used in the several classes are chiefly the
following:

1. In the Junior Latin Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar,
the Professor's Exposition of some of the laws of the Latin
Language, Virgil, Horace, Cicero's Orations and his Epistolæ
ad Diversos, Terence, and Cæsar's Commentaries; the last
chiefly with a view to the written exercises

2. In the Senior Latin Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar,
the Professor's Exposition, Horace, Juvenal, Livy, and Tacitus.

3. In the Junior Greek Class: Kuhner's Elementary Greek
Grammar, Xenophon's Anabasis, an oration of Demosthenes,
Herodotus, and a play of Euripides or Æschylus. The Greek-English
Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is that preferred.

4. In the Senior Greek Class: Kuhner's Larger Greek
Grammar, Euripides, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Homer.

5. For the Roman History, studied in the Senior Latin Class,
Arnold's History of Rome is used as a text-book. Niebuhr's
History of Rome, and the History of Rome published by the
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the maps of
ancient Italy published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, or Findlay's Ancient Atlas, are recommended.

6. For the Ancient History of Greece, studied in the Senior
Greek Class, Smith's History of Greece, or Thirlwall's, or
Grote's History of Greece, and the maps published by the Society
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or Findlay's
Ancient Atlas, are recommended.

It is expected of the students of Latin and Greek, that they
will 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, Plato, &c.

As an essential part of the plan of instruction, the students of
each class are required to furnish written exercises. These
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.

7. Hebrew: The text-books are Biblia Hebraica, Nordheimer's
or Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, and Gesenii Lexicon Manuale
Hebr. et Chald., or Sauerwein's edition of Rehkopf's Lex.
Hebr. Chald.

In the written translations required as a test of the qualifications
of candidates for degrees, the passages used are selected by
the committee of examination, not from the portions of authors
which have been read and explained in the lecture room, but at
will from the classic writers generally.