University of Virginia Library

LITERARY DEPARTMENT.

WILLIAM E. PETERS, LL. D., Professor of Latin.

JOHN H. WHEELER, M. A., Ph. D., Professor of Greek.

M. SCHELE DE VERE, Ph. D., J. U. D., Professor of Modern Languages.

JAMES M. GARNETT, M. A., LL. D., Professor of English.

GEORGE FREDERICK HOLMES, LL. D., Professor of Historical Science.

NOAH K. DAVIS, LL. D., Professor of Moral Philosophy.

C. H. FAUNTLEROY, B. Let., Instructor in Greek.

JULIAN TAYLOR, M. A., Instructor in Modern Languages.

SCHOOL OF LATIN.

Prof. Peters.

The subjects taught are the Latin Language, and Roman History and
Literature. The School is divided into two classes, Junior and Senior.

Text-books:—Junior Class—Sallust, Ovid, Terence, Cicero de Officiis, Horace.

Senior Class—Horace, Seneca, Juvenal, Livy, Cicero, Tacitus.

Grammars:—Zumpt's, Gildersleeve's, Roby's, Printed Lectures of the Professor.

Lexicons:—Andrew's, or Freunds' Leverett.

Roman History and Literature are taught in the Senior Class.

Instruction is given by lectures, and by examinations upon the portions
of text assigned for recitation. Written exercises in rendering Latin into
English, and English into Latin, constitute a prominent feature in the
course. In addition to the portions of the several authors read in the
lecture room, a course of extra and parallel reading is required in each
class. The examination for graduation is not limited to the portions
read in the lecture-room, nor to the parallel reading. The different
systems of Latin versification are fully explained by lectures, and the
general subject applied by readings and metrical exercises.

Sanskrit.—The Professor will also give instruction in Sanskrit.

SCHOOL OF GREEK.

Prof. Wheeler.

The School is divided into three classes, Junior, Intermediate, and
Senior. The method of instruction is by lectures, by examination, and
by written and oral exercises.

The Junior Class, for which a full knowledge of the Attic inflections
and some experience in translation are demanded, is intended especially
for those who wish to acquire a practical familiarity with the simpler Attic
prose. The geography and political history of Greece are taught in the
Junior Class, political and religious antiquities in the Intermediate, and
the history of literature, metres and historical grammar in the Senior.

Junior Class.—The authors read in this class are Xenophon and Lysias. Grammar:—Goodwin's.
History:—Fyffe's and Cox's.

Intermediate Class.—The authors read are Homer, Herodotus and Theocritus.
Grammar:—Goodwin's.

Senior Class.—Demosthenes, Plato, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides. Grammars:—Goodwin's
Moods and Tenses, and Goodwin's Grammar. Lexicons:—Liddell
and Scott, and Veitch's Greek Verbs. Metres:—Schmidt's Introduction to Rhythm
and Metre.

For each class a course of private reading is prescribed.

From each class exercises in Greek composition are required weekly.

In the examination of candidates for graduation, the passages given
for translation are selected from the classic writers at will.

Hebrew.—The Professor will also give instruction in Hebrew.

SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.

Prof. Schele De Vere.

The subjects taught in this School are as follows:

1. The French, German, Italian and Spanish languages.

2. The Literature of these languages, and the History of each idiom,
embracing the general principles of the formation and growth of Language,
and of Comparative Grammar and Philology.

3. The Anglo-Saxon language, its connection with the History of
English, and its relations to the study of Comparative Philology.

Graduation in French and German is required for the degree of M. A.

Diplomas of Graduation are conferred in each of the four languages
mentioned in § I; a Certificate of Proficiency in Anglo-Saxon.

The following text-books are used in the several languages:

French.

Junior Class.—The Professor's Grammar and First Reader, Télémaque, Saintine's
Picciola, Masson's Dictionary.

Senior Class.—The Professor's Grammar. Brachet's Grammar, Molière, Racine,
Voltaire, Taine's L'Angleterre, Masson's, Gasc's or Littré's Dictionary. A course of
private reading is prescribed. Prof. J. A. Harrison's French Syntax is recommended.

German.

Junior Class.—Otto's Grammar, Whitney's Reader, Schiller's William Tell, Whitney's
Dictionary.

Senior Class.—Whitney's and Wilmans' or Frauer's (German) Grammar, Whitney's
Dictionary, Schiller's Works, Gœthe's Autobiography and Faust, Jean Paul's
Flegeljahre. A course of private reading is prescribed.

Spanish.

The Professor's Grammar, Seoane's Dictionary, Colmena Española, Don Quijote,
Calderon's El Principe Constante, Lope's Estrella de Sevilla, Ticknor's History of
Spanish Literature. In default of the Professor's Grammar, now out of print, Knapp's
Spanish Grammar will be used.

Italian.

Cuore's Grammar, Foresti's Reader, Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi, Tasso's Gerusalemme
Liberata, Pellico's Le Mie Prigioni, Petrarca, Dante's La Divina Commedia.

Anglo-Saxon.

Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, The Professor's Studies in English, March's Anglo-Saxon
Grammar, the Anglo-Saxon Gospels.

SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.

Prof. Garnett.

Instruction in this School is given in three classes:

I. The Class of Early English.—In this class the historical and
philological study of the language is pursued, beginning with its oldest
forms, and tracing the language, by the study of specimens, through its
different periods to the formation of modern English. Lectures on the
history of the language are also given.

Text-books.—Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer, or Reader; Morris and Skeat's Specimens
of Early English, Parts I. and II.

II. The Class of Modern English.—In this class the study of the
later language, i. e., since Chaucer, is pursued, and Shakspere is made
a special subject of study. Lectures on the later language, and on the
history of the Elizabethan drama, are given.

Text-books.—For 1884-'85, King Lear, (Clarendon Press, or Rolfe's edition);
Dowden's Shakspere Primer; Abbott's Shaksperian Grammar; Skeat's Specimens of
English Literature. The Globe Shakspere and Fleay's Shakspere Manual are recommended.

III. The Class of Rhetoric and English Literature.—In this
class the principles of Composition and Rhetoric are studied, followed
by the study of the history of English Literature. Essays are required
at regular intervals. Lectures on each subject are given in connection
with the text-books.

Text-Books.—A. S. Hill's Principles of Rhetoric; Morley and Tyler's Manual of
English Literature; Ward's English Poets.

Each class meets twice a week, and may be attended separately; but
graduation in I. and III., or II. and III., will be necessary for a diploma
in the School.

CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL SCIENCE.

Prof. Holmes.

In this School are two classes—one of General History, the other of
the Processes of Historical Change. Either class may be taken separately.

I. In the class of General History the story of advancing civilization
is followed through the succession of the leading nations, from the commencement
of authentic history to the Age of Revolution still in progress.

Text-books.—Smith's History of Greece; Merivale's History of Rome (Puller's
Abridgment); Gibbon, abridged by Smith; Modern History, Text-Book to be indicated
hereafter.

II. The other class embraces Political Economy and the Science of
Society, Political Economy being treated as subordinate.

The Science of Society will investigate the laws and movements, the
growth, decay, and constitution of Societies, in the different stages of
social development.

Text-books—In Political Economy, Mill's Political Economy. In the Science of
Society there is none. The class will be dependent for the present on notes of the
lectures.

SCHOOL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

Prof. Davis.

There are two classes, best taken in two successive sessions:

I. The class in Logic studies Deductive Logic, Inductive Logic, and
Applied Logic. Two lectures a week.

Text-books.—The Professor's Logic, Fowler or Mill on Induction, Whately's Rhetoric,
Jevon's Principles of Science.

II. The class in Philosophy studies Psychology, Ethics, and History
of Philosophy. Three lectures a week.

Text-books.—The Professor's Psychology, Hamilton's Metaphysics, Hickock's Moral
Science, Kant's Theory of Ethics, Ueberweg's History of Philosophy.

GRADUATE COURSES.

School of Latin.—A class is formed of students who have graduated
in the School, and who desire a wider acquaintance with Latin than is
implied in graduation. Authors not embraced in the regular course are
read and closely studied. Special attention is given to translation; and
a prominent feature of the lecture-room exercises is the discussion by
members of the class of the text translated. The vocabulary acquired
by extensive translation is frequently applied in rendering into Latin
passages of English selected for the purpose.

School of Greek.—This course is designed primarily for students
who are making a professional study of Greek philology. With such
students the Professor will read and discuss the more difficult Greek
authors. Extensive courses of reading are marked out, including important
text-books in English, Latin, German, and French. Incessant
practice is given in Greek composition. From time to time papers (in
English or Latin), upon topics selected by each student for himself, are
required as evidence of power to do original work. Competent students
who do not seek distinction at the examination of this course, but simply
desire to enlarge their knowledge of Greek Literature, will be guided in
their reading, and regularly instructed by the Professor.

School of Modern Languages.—Graduates and others who may wish
to continue the study of any one of the modern languages or of Anglo-Saxon
beyond the limits of the annual course, or who may aim at attaining
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, will in this School read additional
authors in the language selected, study the Science of Language,
and be trained to write essays, giving proof of original research. To do
this successfully a certain amount of knowledge in the ancient, and at
least of two modern languages, will be required. Candidates for honors
will be given the choice between pursuing the study of linguistique with
the help of such works as Hovelacque's, Diez', Sayce's and others, or of
thoroughly studying one or more idioms from their origin to the period
of highest perfection. They will thus be led to compare the languages
belonging to certain families, like the Romance, Germanic or Slavic,
either with each other, or with other families, according to their lexical
or psychological peculiarities.

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 Early English works, especially
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 particular 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.

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 these 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.

N. B. Graduation in a School is prerequisite to admission to the ad
vanced Graduate Course of that School.