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SCHOOL OF GREEK.

Professor Humphreys.

The School is organized in three classes—the Junior, the Intermediate,
and the Senior. The method of instruction is by lectures, by
daily examination upon the matter of the lectures, and upon assigned
portions of the text-books, and by written and oral exercises.

A full knowledge of the regular Attic inflections and some experience
in translation are necessary as a preparation for the Junior
Class. Two books of Xenophon's Anabasis, or some suitable equivalent,
may be regarded as a proper amount of preparatory reading.
Diligent students inadequately prepared often make good progress
with the aid of a Licentiate.

Junior Class.—The work of this class is directed to the acquirement
of a practical familiarity with the simpler Attic prose. The
Grammar is rapidly but carefully reviewed; for translation into Greek,
sentences are given out which involve the vocabulary and the idioms
of the Greek texts studied. The authors read are Xenophon and
Lysias. The Geography and Political History of Greece are taught
in this class.

Intermediate Class.—This class, for which the Junior Course, or
some equivalent, is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of
Attic prose usage, and enters upon the study of the Drama and of
Homer. Weekly exercises for translation into Greek are given, each
being a passage of simple but idiomatic English based on a Greek
author. Selected portions of the Grammar are closely studied, and the
whole Syntax is reviewed. The authors read are Lysias, Plato, Euripides,
and Homer. Instruction in Greek Literature and Antiquities is
given in this class.

Senior Class.—The successful pursuit of the Senior Course demands
such attainments as may be acquired in the two lower classes, or an
equivalent. The authors read this session are Demosthenes, Sophocles,
Thucydides, Aristophanes, and the fragments of the Lyric Poets.
The Syntax of the Greek Verb is discussed, and courses of lectures
are given upon Metres and the History of Greek Literature. The
weekly exercises are partly based on ancient authors and partly specially
prepared or taken from standard English writers.

Text-books.—Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon (seventh edition); Veitch's
Greek Verbs; Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Greek Moods and Tenses,
and approved editions of the authors read.

For each class a course of private reading is prescribed, not restricted
to the authors named above.

The state of preparation of a pupil joining the School may often
make it expedient to take two classes at once.

In the examination of candidates for graduation, all the subjects
taught in the School are involved, and the passages set for translation
are selected from the classic writers at will.

The Graduate Course is designed primarily for those who intend
to become teachers of the classical languages, and desire a thorough
introduction to Greek philology as a part of their professional equipment.
With such students the Professor will read and discuss the
more difficult Greek authors. Courses of private reading are marked
out, including important text-books and monographs; and by systematic
lectures, as well as by constant supervision and advice, the Professor
will aid and direct the student's endeavors. As an exercise in
the independent investigation of philological problems, each student is
from time to time expected to prepare a paper, discussing thoroughly
some topic selected by himself.

Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts are required to
complete the work of the Intermediate Class; those for the degree of
Master of Arts are required to complete the work of the Senior
Class. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy the completion of
a Graduate Course is required.

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