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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.