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SCHOOL OF ROMANIC LANGUAGES.

Professor Wilson.

Adjunct Professor Dargan.

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

French, Old French, Spanish, and Italian are taught in the School.
There are three courses in French, two courses in Spanish, one course in
Italian, and one course in Old French. The course in Old French is
technical and is intended to complement the doctorate work done at this
University in English and German Literature.

I. French.

Course 1A: Beginners may take this course. Elementary grammar
is reviewed; the irregular verb is considered at length; intermediary
texts are read; stress is laid upon pronunciation; exercises in dictation and
in composition occupy one-third of the time throughout the year. Textbooks:
Fraser and Squair's Grammar; Mérimée, Colomba; Pailleron, Le
Monde où l'on s'ennuie; Daudet, Contes choisis; Dumas, L'Evasion du
Duc de Beaufort; Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 9-10, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct Professor Dargan.

Course 2B: Course 1A prerequisite, or its equivalent.—The novel,
drama, and lyric of the Nineteenth Century are touched upon; the subjunctive
mood is studied; oral exercises are used; the history of French
Literature is examined. Books: Gas's Dictionary; Fraser and Squair's
Grammar; Saintsbury's History of French Literature; Dumas' Monte-Cristo;
Tuckerman, Simplicité; About, Le roi des montagnes; Racine,
Athalic; Hugo, Hermani; Bowen, Modern French Lyrics; Gautier's Jettatura.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10, S. W. Rotunda, Professor
Wilson.

Course 3C: Course 1A and 2B prerequisite.—Forty lectures are devoted
to the interpretation of Modern French prose; twenty lectures to
defining the tendencies of Modern French fiction; and forty lectures to
an appreciation of France's place in civilization. Books: Nodier, Contes;
Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris; Sand, Indiana; Pellissier, Le mouvement
littérarie du XIXe Siécle; Balzac, La cousine Bette; Daudet, Sapho;
Flaubert, Tentation de Saint Antoine; Bazin, La terre qui meurt; Bourget,
Le disciple; France, Silvestre Bonnard; Foncin, Le Pays de France.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12, S. W. Rotunda, Professor Wilson,
Adjunct Professor Dargan.

II. Spanish.

Course 1A: This is a beginner's course, offered to those students
who desire to undertake the study of the language, either from a cultural
or a practical stand-point. A survey of the main features of the grammar
together with composition and the reading of modern texts constitute
the course. Dictation and other oral exercises will further the student's
knowledge of colloquial Spanish. Text-books: Hill's and Ford's Grammar,
Carrión and Vital Aza, Zaragüeta; Valera, Pepita Jiménez, Alarcón,
El Sombrero de tres Picos; Taboada, Cuentos Alegres. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 11-12, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct Professor Dargan.

Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—The study
of the drama and novel of modern Spain will be continued. Two works
of the classical age will be read, and the history of Spanish Literature
studied. An advanced grammar and a conversational Method will be taken
up. Composition and oral work will occupy one-third of the time.
Text-books: Ybarra, Practical Spanish Method; Ramsey, Text-Book of
Modern Spanish; Appleton's Dictionary; FitzMaurice Kelly, History of
Spanish Literature; Tamayo y Baus, Un drama nuevo; Galdós, Dona Perfecta;
Valdés, José; Pereda, Pedro Sánchez; Calderón, El Mágico prodigioso;
Cervantes, Don Quijote. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1,
S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct Professor Dargan.

III. Italian.

Course 3C: French 1A and 2B or Spanish 1A and 2B prerequisite.—
One course is offered, for which no previous knowledge of Italian is required.
Students are advanced rapidly through an elementary grammar,
and then through a series of graded texts to the point where Modern
Italian is read with ease. Several of the more important monuments of
the Nineteenth Century are read and discussed, after which the attention
of the class is directed to Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The history

of Italian Literature is studied, and also that of the Renaissance. Books:
Grandgent's Grammar; Edgren's Dictionary; Amicis, Alberto; Testa, L'oro
e l'orpello; Goldoni, Un curioso accidente; Capuana, Homo; Bowen, Italian
Reader; d'Ancona e Bacci, Manuale della letteratura italiana (Dante,
Petrarch, Boccaccio); Garnet, Italian Literature; Symonds, Short History
of the Renaissance in Italy; Barrili, Una Notte Bizzarra. Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 12-1, S. W. Rotunda, Professor Wilson.

IV. Old French.

Course 4D: This course is intended to complement the doctorate
work done at this University in English and German Literature and at the
same time constitute a basis of advanced instruction for men aspiring to
Romance scholarship. The course is open to students who have completed
the French, Spanish, and Italian courses at this University, or the
equivalent elsewhere.

Lectures and class-work incident to the course are conducted in
French. Important monuments of Old French are translated into the
modern idiom, and the syntax and literary tendencies of different periods
are contrasted. Professor Wilson.