PH. D.
This course is intended for students who propose to teach, or desire
to equip themselves for original investigation in the language. The
scope of the work is such as to familiarize them with the language in
its several periods. An extensive course of reading is prescribed, and
subjects for independent investigation are from time to time assigned.
The lecture-room exercises consist in translation and the discussion
by the student of the passage translated. He is invited to propound
such questions to the Professor, or to a member of the class, as he
would to a pupil. In addition, a careful translation from some one of
the best Latin prose writers is prepared, and the student is required at
once to write on the blackboard his Latin rendering of it, and to give
his reasons as well for the periods as for the syntactical constructions
employed. Though it requires at least two years to complete this
course, yet one year given to it abundantly repays the student, as the
greater part of the first year of the course is devoted to the Archaic
period of the language, which can not be considered to any great
extent in the undergraduate course.
