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SCHOOL OF GREEK.

Professor Humphreys.

Mr. Hays.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.

This school comprises the following courses:

Course 1A: A course for beginners. Text-Books: Benner and
Smyth's Beginner's Greek Book; Xenophon's Anabasis. Young men who
have the opportunity are urged to prepare themselves for the next course
(2A) or Course 3B before coming to the University.

Course 2A: Course 1A prerequisite or the Entrance Examination in
Greek (or its equivalent).—A course of easy Attic Prose. Xenophon's
Memorabilia and Hellenica, Lysias, Goodwin's Grammar, Elementary
Exercises.

Course 3B: Course 2A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—A course of
Attic Prose and the Drama, Herodotus and Homer, Syntax, Exercises,
Literature, History, Meters, etc. The class will begin with Plato's Apology
and Crito.

Course 4C: Course 3B prerequisite.—A more advanced course, including
portions of Demosthenes, Thucydides, Æschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes,
Lyric Poets; also Meters, Syntax, and Exercises.

Courses 5D and 6D: Course 4C prerequisite.—Designed for those
who wish to devote themselves to classical scholarship, and especially for

those who choose Greek as their major elective for the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy. For admission to these courses, proficiency in Courses 2A
and 3B, or equivalent preparation is required. The course 4C may be taken
as the first year Ph. D. course. At present the additional work consists of
four special courses, each comprising three hours per week during a half
session. The lectures will be employed chiefly in directing the private study
of the students.

The four special courses offered at present are as follows:

I. A course of selected readings extending over the whole field
of Greek literature in the order of historical development. This course
is intended as a general survey.

II. A course in Attic Prose, especially the orators, directed partly
to questions of grammar, and partly to the artistic form and style.

III. A study of the Attic drama, including the special study in
class of the Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles and the Frogs of Aristophanes.

IV. A study of the Greek poets, with special reference to music,
rhythm, meter, and structure. The ancient doctrine of meter and rhythm
will be carefully examined, and portions of the Lyric poets, including
Pindar, read in class.

For all the classes of this School private reading is prescribed, and
the examinations will be partly upon this and the work done in class,
and partly upon passages selected from the Greek authors at will.

Text-Books.—Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Moods and Tenses; Veitch's
Verbs; Liddell and Scott's Lexicon (intermediate, and in Course 4C and above,
unabridged edition); Morey's History of Greece; Smyth's Greek Literature. Any
editions of Greek authors may be used, except when particular ones are specially
prescribed; but students should always have at hand Teubner's texts for reference,
and for use on examinations. At present Rhythm and Meters and some other subjects
are taught wholly or partly by lecture.