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LATIN.
| Professor Fitzhugh. | Professor Montgomery. |
General Statement.—It will be the aim of the School of Latin to
open to all teachers and students of Latin the advantages of University
instruction in that subject. The study of Latin is the study
of the language, literature, and life of the Romans. Every course will
therefore have due regard to each of these interests. Course 1 is
preparatory; thereafter the work is organized in all courses as follows:
A. The Latin Language: Systematic study of Latin grammar,
with oral and written exercises in prose composition. Two hours
a week in each course.
B. Latin Literature: Systematic study of the Latin authors in
culture-historical sequence. Three hours a week in each course.
C. Roman Life: Systematic study of Roman culture-history in
English, in conjunction with the reading of the authors. Three hours
a week in each course (coincident with B.).
HIGH SCHOOL COURSES.
Courses 1-4 are intended to illustrate the teaching of Latin in the
Secondary school, and to offer to teachers in high schools and academies,
and to students preparing for college, the opportunity of
special instruction in the subjects taught in the four years of Latin
preparation.
The First Year of the High School.
1. Beginners' Course.—For teachers in high schools and
academies, for college preparation, and for students of Latin at large.
This course is devoted to the Beginner's Book in Latin and concludes
with elementary Latin reading. It involves: the Roman pronunciation;
careful study of accent and quantity; thorough drill in declensions
and conjugations; the fundamental principles of the syntax
of the cases, tenses, and moods; accusative and infinitive, relative and
conditional sentences; the fundamental uses of the subjunctive; and
the main laws of indirect discourse. These grammatical principles
are illustrated in systematic exercises in translating easy detached
sentences into Latin. Translation into English of simple Latin prose
preparatory to Caesar.
Daily, from 8:45 to 9:45. Professor Montgomery. Cabell Hall,
Room 1.
Text-Book.—Bennett's Foundations of Latin.
The Second Year of the High School.
2. Caesar Course.—For teachers in high schools and academies,
for college preparation, and for students of Latin at large.
This course involves Caesar's Gallic War, Books I-IV, with collateral
readings in Viri Romae, and the fundamental outlines of Roman
culture-history; the study of the author will be not only grammatical
but literary and culture-historical. Constant practice in sight reading.
Systematic study of high school Latin Grammar, with accompanying
prose composition based on Caesar.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: High school grammar and accompanying
exercises.
Tuesday and Thursday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Caesar, varied with Viri Romae; the
broad outlines of Roman culture-history.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Preparatory Latin
Writer; Caesar's Gallic War; Viri Romae; Abbott's Short History of
Rome; Botsford's Story of Rome.
The Third Year of the High School.
3. Cicero Course.—For teachers in high school and academies,
for college preparation, and for students of Latin at large.
This course involves Cicero's Four Orations against Catiline, the
Manilian Law and Pro Archia, with collateral readings in Nepos'
Lives; the private and public life of the Romans. The study of the
author will be grammatical, literary, and culture-historical. Constant
practice at sight reading. High School Latin grammar continued, with
accompanying prose composition based on Cicero.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: High school grammar and
accompanying exercises.
Tuesday and Thursday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Cicero, varied with Nepos; the private
and public life of the Romans.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Latin Composition; Cicero's
Orations; Nepos' Lives; Johnston's Private Life of the Romans;
Gow's Companion to School Classics, sections on the Public Life of the
Romans.
The Fourth Year of the High School.
4. Vergil Course.—For teachers in high schools and academies,
for college preparation, and for students of Latin at large.
This course involves Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI with collateral
readings in Ovid's Metamorphoses; the principles of Latin versification
with scansion of the dactylic hexameter; the mythology of the
Greeks and Romans. The study of the author will be grammatical,
literary and culture-historical. Constant practice in sight reading.
High school grammar concluded, with accompanying prose composition.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: High school grammar and
prose composition.
Tuesday and Thursday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Vergil, varied with Ovid; the mythology
of the Greeks and Romans.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily, from 9:45 to 10:45. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Latin Composition; Vergil's
Aeneid; Ovid's Metamorphoses (Miller); Fairbank's Mythology of
Greece and Rome; Bulfinch's Age of Fable.
COLLEGE COURSES.
Courses 5 and 6, offered to as many as five applicants in each,
are intended to open up to teachers and summer students the more important
fields of college Latin. They are devoted to the broad cultural
study of the language, literature, and life of the Romans. Roman
civilization is the link between the Hellenic and the modern: the instruction
will aim, therefore, to exhibit this relation, and so, to emphasize
the unity and continuity of all human culture. The desirability
of a knowledge of Greek and of at least one Romanic language
is especially commended to all who would reap the full cultural and
scientific benefit of the college course in Latin: the Greek illumines
incomparably all parts of Latin study, which in turn bears fascinatingly
upon the Romanic.
5. Livy Course (one third College course).—For teachers in colleges,
for college students, and for students of Latin at large.
This course is identical with that of the first term of 3B in the
catalogue of the University of Virginia. It involves Livy's Hannibalic War,
Books XXI-XXII, with collateral reading in Tacitus' Germania,
and the private and public life of the Romans. The study of the
author will be grammatical, literary, and culture-historical. Constant
exercise in sight reading. College Latin grammar and exercises
based on Livy.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: College Latin grammar and
prose composition (ten entire exercises in Nutting, beginning 6, 16, etc.).
Wednesday and Friday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Livy and Tacitus; the private and public
life of the Romans.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily (except Monday), from 2:30 to 3:30. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Gildersleeve-Lodge, Larger Latin Grammar and Nutting's
Advanced Latin Composition; Livy's Hannibalic War, Books XXI-XXII;
Tacitus' Germania; Johnston's Private Life of the Romans; Gow's
Companion to School Classics, sections on the Public Life of the Romans.
6. Horace Course (One third College course).—For teachers in
colleges, for college students, and for students of Latin at large.
This course is identical with that of the second term of 3B in the
University of Virginia catalogue. It involves Horace's Odes and
Epodes and Vergil's Bucolics; the rythm of lyric and idyllic verse;
the outlines of the art life of the Greeks and Romans; college grammar
and prose composition.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: College grammar and
Latin prose composition (ten entire exercises in Gildersleeve-Lodge,
beginning with 6, 18, etc. in Part I and with 72, 84, etc. in Part II).
Wednesday and Friday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Horace's Odes and Epodes; Vergil's
Bucolics; the history of the Greek and Roman Art.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily, (except Monday) from 10:45 to 11:45. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Gildersleeve-Lodge, Larger Latin Grammar and Latin
History of Greek Art; Goodyear's Roman Art.
Remark.—Any standard grammar or approved text will be adequate
to the purposes of the work. For those who desire to purchase,
special editions will be available at the University book stores.
Credits.—Any student who fulfills the conditions set forth on
pages 9 and 10 and who completes successfully courses 5 and 6 will be given
credit for the first and second terms work respectively of Latin 3B
(See Catalogue of University of Virginia).
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