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GERMAN.

Professor Perkinson.

Three courses are offered in this language.

B. A. COURSE.

Students who desire to enter this course must possess an accurate knowledge
of English Grammar, and some familiarity with the rudiments of German.
They will study the grammar of the language, and will be trained in pronunciation,
on which special stress will be laid, and in translation, supplemented
by weekly exercises, parallel reading of easy texts, and a course in the history and literature of the language. The object of this course is
mainly to enable the student to read and appreciate ordinary German at
sight, and to give him an insight into the literature of the language. Three
hours a week.

M. A. COURSE.

In this course the syntax and historical grammar will be treated, and the
historical grammar illustrated by short selections from Old High German
and Middle High German authors. Practice in translation and composition
will be continued, and a minute study of certain authors made. Candidates
for graduation will be expected to translate at sight any passage that may be
assigned, and to render selections from English into German. Three hours
a week.

PH. D. COURSE.

This is designed for students who wish to make a special study of the
literature or the philology of the language. Only those who have completed
the lower courses are admitted to it. The work will be adapted to the
aims of the student, but in all cases the study of Gothic, Old High German
and Middle High German will be required. Applicants for the degree of
Ph. D. will be required to prepare a dissertation showing original research.
Three hours a week.

The text-books vary from time to time. Parallel reading will be assigned
at the beginning of the year.

B. A. German.—Whitney's Brief Grammar; Thomas' Grammar; Whitney's Introductory
German Reader; Hauff's Das Bild des Kaisers; Schiller's Maria Stuart; Goethe's
Hermann und Dorothea.

M. A. German.—Wright's Old High German Primer and Middle High German
Primer; Whitney's Grammar; Heine's Prosa: Scheffel's Ekkehard; Lessing's Nathan
der Weise and Emilia Galotti.

Ph. D. German.—Ulfilas, Tatian, Otfried, Nibelungenlied, Gudrun, Wolfram von
Eschenbach.