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SCHOOL OF GREEK.

Professor Humphreys.

In this School there are three courses:

I. A general course, comprising what is deemed essential to a liberal
classical education. This course extends over two years.

A. First Year Class.—As a preparation for this class an accurate knowledge
of the regular Attic inflections and some experience in translating are
necessary. A thorough study of two books of Xenophon's Anabasis may be
regarded as the minimum of preparatory reading. The work of the class is
directed to the acquirement of practical familiarity with the simpler Attic
prose. The Grammar is carefully reviewed, and weekly exercises, based on
Greek authors, are written. The authors read are Xenophon and Lysias.

B. Second Year Class.—This class, for which the work of the preceding
year, or some equivalent, is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of
Attic prose, and enters upon the study of Epic and Ionic Greek and the Drama.
The Syntax is reviewed, and weekly exercises are given for translation into
Attic prose. The authors read are Plato, Demosthenes, Euripides, Herodotus
and Homer. Instruction is given in History, Literature, Antiquities, and the
simpler Metres. Graduation in this course is prescribed for those who select
Greek as one of their studies for the degree of B. A.

II. An advanced course, adapted especially to the requirements of those
who desire to become teachers of the classics. It extends through one session
of nine months. For admission to this course, graduation in the preceding
course is required; but, when sufficiently prepared, students may be allowed
to pursue both courses simultaneously. In this course the Syntax of the Verb
is thoroughly studied, and weekly exercises, including passages from modern
English authors, are given to be translated into idiomatic Greek. Lectures
are given on Rhythm and Metres, and the students are practiced in reading
rhythmically the lyric parts of the Drama and the works of the Lyric Poets.
The authors read are Demosthenes, Æschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Thucydides,
Pindar, and other Lyric Poets. The course will be varied and modified
as occasion may require. Graduation in this course is prescribed for
those who select Greek as one of their studies for the degree of M. A.

III. A special course designed for those who wish to devote themselves
to classical scholarship. For admission to this course, graduation in the
preceding course is required, but in special cases students may be permitted
to prosecute both courses at the same time. The work of this course will be
adapted to the special aims of those pursuing it, but will, in all cases, include
extensive reading of Greek authors and minute study of some branch
of Greek philology. Those who select Greek as one of their studies for the
degree of Ph. D. will be required to pursue this course for two years.

In all the courses private reading is prescribed, and the examinations will
be partly upon this and the work done in class, and partly upon passages
selected from the Greek authors at will.

Text-Books.—Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Moods and Tenses; Hogue's
Irregular Verbs; Veitch's Verbs; Liddell and Scott's Lexicon (Intermediate, and in
courses II. and III., unabridged seventh edition); Smith's History of Greece; Jebb's
Primer of Greek Literature. Any editions of Greek authors may be used, except when
particular ones are specially prescribed; but students should always have at hand
Teubner's texts for reference, and for use on examinations. At present Rhythm and
Metres and some other subjects are taught wholly or partly by lecture.

Hebrew.—Elementary instruction in Hebrew will be given when the
demand for such instruction is sufficient.