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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.

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: Zumpts' Latin Grammar,
Krebs' Guide, 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,
Krebs' Guide, Horace, Juvenal, Livy and Tacitus.

3. In the Junior Greek Class: Kühner's Elementary Greek
Grammar, Xenophon's Anabasis, 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: Kühner's Larger Greek Grammar,
Euripides, Sophocles, Thucydides and Homer.

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

6. For the Ancient History of Greece, studied in the Senior
Greek Class, the History of Greece published by the Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or Thirlwall's History of
Greece, and the maps published by the Society for the Diffusion
of Useful Knowledge 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; 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 a text,
aided in Latin by Krebs' Guide.

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.