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GRADUATE COURSES.
School of Latin.—This work is intended for students who desire to
pursue their Latin studies beyond the requirements for graduation. The
value of the course to a student who proposes to teach, or who desires to
equip himself for original investigation in the language, cannot well be overrated.
The scope of the work is such as to familiarize him with the language
in its several periods. An extensive course of reading is prescribed, and
subjects for independent investigation are from time to time assigned. The
Lecture-room exercises consist in translation and the discussion by the student
of the passage translated. He is invited to propound such questions to the
Professor, or to a member of the class, as he would to a pupil. In addition,
a careful translation from some one of the best Latin prose writers is prepared,
and the student is required at once to write on the blackboard his
Latin rendering of it, and to give his reasons as well for the periods as for
the syntactical constructions employed. Though it requires at least two
years to complete this course, yet one year given to it abundantly repays the
student, as the greater part of the first year of the course is devoted to the
archaic period of the language, which cannot be considered to any great
extent in the course for graduation.
School of Greek.—This course is designed primarily for those who
intend to become teachers of the classical languages, and who desire a
thorough introduction to Greek philology as a part of their professional
equipment. With such students the Professor will read and discuss the more
difficult Greek authors. Courses of private reading are marked out, including
important text-books and monographs; and by systematic lectures, as well as
by constant supervision and advice, the Professor will aid and direct the
student's endeavors. As an exercise in the independent investigation of
philological problems, each student is from time to time expected to prepare
a paper, discussing thoroughly some topic selected by himself. Constant
practice is given in Greek composition.
School of Modern Languages.—Graduates in this school who wish
to extend the study of any one of the idioms there taught (including Anglo-Saxon)
beyond the limits of the under-graduate course, and candidates for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, are expected to do the following work:
They will read additional foreign authors, pursue the study of Comparative
Philology till mastery is secured, and write monthly essays on kindred subjects,
which must give proof of original research. A thorough knowledge
of at least one ancient language, and graduation in two modern languages, are
deemed prerequisite. Candidates for honors will, however, have the choice
existing between several languages, or families of languages, such as the
Romanic, the Germanic, or the Slavic, in their lexical, grammatical or
psychological nature; or by comparing with each other the different aspects
borne by one and the same idiom in its successive periods of life. The
writings of Diez, Hovelacque, Sayce, Max Müller, and others, are carefully
studied; and the final result of the whole course of study is to be shown in
a concluding dissertation specially written for the degree, and evidencing
original thought.
School of English.—In this school two separate graduate courses will
be arranged to suit the needs of those students who desire to pursue further
either philological or literary studies. The former will comprise the further
study of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English works, especially of Anglo-Saxon
poetry, or the study of Gothic and the comparative grammar of the Teutonic
languages. The latter will comprise the study of some distinctive
period in English literature, or of some particnlar writer, or writers, including
the political, social, and literary characteristics of the age under consideration.
In each course a thesis will be required, giving evidence of independent
private study of some subject cognate with the course pursued, in addition
to such examinations as may be advisable. The selection of the course and
subject is left to the student himself, under guidance of the Professor.
School of Historical Science.—The graduate course in this school for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy will be varied from year to year, but
will always be designed to train the student in original research and systematic
exposition of the results. Some historical period, with the accompanying
social, political and intellectual development of the people, will be
made the subject of study. Such instructions and directions as may be
required to render those pursuits efficacious will be given throughout the
session.
School of Moral Philosophy.—The history of Philosophy, ancient
and modern, with a special study of Aristotle and Kant. A course in
Psycho-Physics.
N. B.—Graduation in a school is prerequisite to admission to the advanced
Graduate Course of that school.
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