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FRENCH AND GERMAN.
Adjunct Professor Perkinson.
There will be three classes in each language.
The Junior Classes are designed for beginners. They must possess an
accurate knowledge of the elements of English grammar, and will study the
grammar of the language with weekly written exercises, and will be practiced
in pronunciation, on which special stress will be lad, and in translation from
easy authors. As soon as sufficient progress has been made in acquiring elementary
grammatical principles, translation from the foreign idioms into
English will be begun.
The Intermediate Classes embrace the work for the B. A. degree.
These classes are based on the Junior, and include a thorough study of the
grammar, supplemented by weekly written exercises and copious reading,
and a course in the history and the literature of the language. The amount
of reading to be done is definite, and is assigned at the beginning of the
session. A part of this is read in class, the rest is left as parallel reading.
Special attention is paid to reading at sight.
The Senior Classes study the historical grammar of the language, given
by lectures, continue the practice of translation and composition, and enter
more minutely into the study of certain authors and selected periods. Candidates
for graduation will be expected to translate at sight any passage that
may be assigned and to render selections from English authors into the foreign
idiom.
The text-books in all the classes and the authors to be read vary from
year to year and are subject to change at any time. The following are the
books for 1889-90:
Junior French.—Whitney's Grammar, De Vere's Reader, La Mare au Diable, Les
Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr.
Junior German.—Whitney's Brief Grammar, Joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Grimm's
Kinder-und Hausmärchen, Das Kalte Herz, Undine.
Intermediate French.—Whitney's Grammar, Saintsbury's Primer of French Literature,
Le Cid, Phédre, Andromaque, L'Avare, Le Misanthrope, Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre,
Le Matre de Forges, La France, Un Philosophe sous les Toits.
Intermediate German.—Whitney's Grammar, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Maria Stuart,
Historische Skizzen, Ballads; Hermann und Dorothea, Die Journalisten, Peter Schlemihl,
Undine.
Senior French.—Saintsbury's History of French Literature, Taine's Notes sur L'Angleterre,
Verre d'eau, Paris en Amérique, Sacs et Parchemins, Dosia, Britannicus, Victor Hugo's
Works.
Senior German.—Heine's Prosa, Goethe's Egmont, Iphigenie auf Tauris, Faust, Götz von
Berlichingen, Aus Meinem Leben; Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm, Emilia Galotti, Nathan
der Weise, Laocöon.
Gasc's, or Spiers and Surenne's French Dictionary.
Adler's, or Whitney's German Dctionary.
Candidates for graduation in the School of Modern Languages are required
to pass examination in French and German only.
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