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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 connexion 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 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 connexion with the
written exercises.
For the above subjects the text-books are the Professor's
printed notes, Beck's Latin Syntax, containing the most important
parts of the Syntax of 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, and
Munk's Greek and Roman Metres by Beck and Felton.
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
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 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, and Arnold's History
of Rome.
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, Kühner's Greek Grammar is the text-book.
2. 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 besides Kühner, Matthiae's Greek Grammar, fifth 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, or the History of Greece in the Library of
Useful Knowledge.
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, Plato, &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, aided in Latin by Krebs' Guide.
V. Hebrew.—The text-books are Biblia Hebraica, Bush's,
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.
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