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The General Course embraces such a knowledge of the selected language as an
intelligent student may be expected to acquire in one year. Some previous preparation
is most desirable. The aim of this course is to acquaint the student with
the pronunciation, phonology, grammar, and general syntax of the language
through systematic oral and written practice, to initiate him into the literature
through easy and abundant reading, and to lay a solid foundation for the prosecution
of his Special and Advanced courses, if he elects to continue his studies
in this School.

GRADUATE COURSES.

M. A.

The Special Course embraces a systematic extension of the General Course
along the same lines, but is at once more comprehensive and more specialized in
certain directions; incessant practice in translation and composition, gradually
increasing in difficulty, is continued; instruction in syntax, in historical grammar,
and in literature is given by lecture and abstract; and an orderly reading
of the great writers in each language, chronologically arranged, is planned and
accomplished by class work and collateral reading.

PH. D.

The Advanced Course is intended for those students who elect Romance Languages
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It embraces two years of
graduate work in any two languages of the group, and is especially adapted to
students who have graduated in Latin and Greek. Study of the comparative
grammar, vocabulary, and literature of these languages is made a special feature

of this course. Most attractive combinations can be made in this department,
such as French-Italian, Spanish-French, Portuguese-Spanish. Provençal-French,
Latin-French, etc. Graduation in Latin is indispensable for the prosecution of a Ph.
D. course in Romance Languages. Instruction will be given by conference,
assigned private work, and stated examination, and a dissertation evincing original
research in some department of grammar, phonetics, syntax, literature or history,
will in every case be required. Detailed courses for intending students will be
arranged by the Professor on application.

FRENCH: Special.

B. A. COURSE.

Text-Books.—Whitney's Large French Grammar and Introductory French
Reader; Matzke's French Pronunciation; Bruno's Tour de la France; Joynes'
Classic French Plays; Kuhns' St. Pierre's Paul et Virginie; Fortier's Littérature
Française. Exercises. Parallel reading (completion of the texts begun in class).
Heath's, Gasc's or Bellows' Dictionary. The texts used have been so chosen as to
form a suitable general introduction (a) to the grammar, (b) to the vocabulary, (c)
to the history and geography, and (d) to the literature of France in the seventeenth
and nineteenth centuries.

A course in Scientific French, for the benefit of medical and other students, will
be offered as occasion requires.

M. A. COURSE.

For pronunciation: Matzke's French Pronunciation; Koschwitz' Parlers Parisiens.
For reference and study: Harrison's French Syntax; Brachet-Toynbee's Historical
French Grammar. For reading: Fasnacht's Select Specimens of Great French
Writers; Masson's Series of French Prose (for the study of select periods of French
culture and civilization); Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV (for the study of one typical
reign); professor's lectures on Eminent French Writers; Chardenal's Advanced
Exercises. Examinations on definite assigned work.

SPANISH: Special.

B. A. COURSE.

Text-Books.—Manning's Spanish Grammar (for rapid survey); Knapp's Reader
(for current Spanish Prose); Todd's Don Quijote, with Selections from Lope and
Calderon (for classical prose and poetry); Valera's Pepita Jiménez; Harrison's History
of Spain; Seoane's Dictionary. Exercises. Definite collateral reading and examinations
on assigned work.

M. A. COURSE.

Text-Books.—Knapp's Grammar, with lectures based on Foerster's Sprachlehre
and Wiggers' Grammatik der Spanischen Sprache; Selections from the lyric and
dramatic poets and from the great prose writers, in connection with Ticknor's History
of Spanish Literature; Isla's Le Sage's Gil Blas; El Romancero del Cid;
Seoane's Dictionary. Exercises, assigned collateral reading, and stated examinations
on definite assigned work.

Ph. D. Courses in Old French, Provençal and Old Spanish will be arranged and
offered as they are required. The texts, editions, grammars, and chrestomathies of
Schwan, Bartsch, Keller, Groeber, Suchier, Vietor, Gaston Paris, Meyer, Darmesteter,
and others, will be used, and the professor's extensive collection of Modern
Language works will be freely open to students of the School.

ENGLISH.

B. A. COURSE.

The B. A. course in English is designed to lay a broad foundation for the intel-
ligent study of the language on both the historical (philological) and the literary
side. The opportunity is seized from the beginning to interest the student in the
history and etymology of current English words and phrases, to point him by a
general course of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and Middle English to the gradual
genesis and evolution of Modern English as we have it now, and to furnish him
with ample material for the prosecution of further study and research in one of
the most delightful fields open to the modern student. A carefully graded series
of texts and text-books will lead the student from the language of Alfred through
Chaucer and the Elizabethans to the English of Victoria; and practical weekly or
fortnightly exercises in English composition on assigned topics will, it is hoped,
shape his style and enlarge his knowledge of contemporary English. Three times
a week.

Text-Books.—First Term: Sweet's or Harrison and Baskervill's Primer of Anglo-Saxon;
Morris's Elementary Historical English Grammar (revised); Williams' Composition
and Rhetoric.

Second Term: Cook's First Book in Old English; Corson's Introduction to Chaucer;
Morris's Elementary Hist. Grammar (completed); Williams' Composition and
Rhetoric (continued); Brooke's English Literature (begun).

Third Term: Cook, Brooke, Corson and Williams, completed; Hales' Longer English
Poems; the Arden Shakspere.

GRADUATE COURSES.

M. A.

This course is a more specialized form of the B. A. course on the same general
lines; a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon is essential to its profitable prosecution.
The historical study of the language is pursued in greater detail; the student's
attention is concentrated on the history and origins of English; lectures on the
Poetry and Life of the Anglo-Saxons are given; Fourteenth Century English receives
detailed attention, and selected works of the Elizabethan period will be
examined and studied critically.

The effort will constantly be made to make these courses in the English Language
run parallel on the linguistic side with the courses in English Literature, so
that the two may profitably be taken together. Three times a week.

Text-Books.—First Term: Sweet's or Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader; Sweet's Short
English Grammar; Morris and Skeat's Specimens, II.

Second Term: Skeat's Principles, I; the Student's Chaucer; Brooke's History of
Old English Literature; Professor's Lectures.

Third Term: Beowulf; Skeat's Principles, II; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (completed;
Moulton's Literary Study of the Bible; Brooke (completed).

Note: In 1898 the M. A. class discussed once a week in the English Seminary, second
term, written reports on points connected with Chaucer's language, vocabulary,
proverbs, learning, versification, etc. During the third term the English Bible
formed the centre of the Seminary work.

A piece of technical work, such as the construction of a vocabulary, the examination

of particular points in syntax or grammar, or the discussion of a particular
author, may be required of the M. A. graduate.

PH. D.

Here only general hints and suggestions can be given, the course adapting itself
to the preferences of the student. The foundations will be laid in a thorough
knowledge of Gothic, Old and Middle High German, and Old French to the Sixteenth
Century; phonetics will be carefully studied; and the principles of comparative
grammar and syntax will be duly explained.

Frequent conference, stated examination, and original research will form essential
parts of this course.

The Professor's large and choice collection of Anglo-Saxon, English, German,
and French philological works is open to the students.