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LATIN.
Professor Fitzhugh.
Professor Montgomery.
It will be the aim of the courses in Latin to open to all teachers
and students of Latin the advantages of University instruction in that
subject. The study of Latin is the study of the language, literature,
and life of the Romans. Every course will, therefore, have due regard
in each of these interest.
Couse 1 is preparatory; thereafter, the work is organized in all
course as follows:
The Latin language—systematic study of Latin grammar, with
oral and written exercises in prose composition, Latin literature—
systematic study of the Latin author in culture-historical sequence;
Roman life—systematic study of Roman culture-history in English,
in conjunction with the reading of the authors.
Courses 1-4 intended to illustrate the teaching of Latin in the
Secondary school, and to offer to teachers in high schools and academies,
and to students preparing for college, the opportunity of special
instruction in the subjects taught in the four years of Latin preparation.
1. Beginners' Course.—For teachers in high schools and academies,
for college preparation, and for students of Latin at large.
This course is devoted to the Beginner's Book in Latin and concludes
with elementary Latin reading. It involves: the Roman pronunciation;
careful study of accent and quantity; thorough drill in declensions
and conjugations; the fundamental principles of the syntax
conditional sentences; the fundamental uses of the subjunctive; and
the main laws of indirect discourse. These grammatical principles
are illustrated in systematic exercises in translating easy detached
sentences into Latin. Translation into English of simple Latin prose
preparatory to Cæsar.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Montgomery. Cabell Hall,
Room 1.
Text-Book.—Bennett's Foundation of Latin.
2. Cæsar.—For teachers in high schools and academies, for college
preparation, and for students of Latin at large.
This course involves Cæsar's Gallic War, Books I-IV, with collateral
readings in Viri Romæ, and the fundamental outlines of
Roman culture-history; the study of the author will be not only grammatical
but literary and culture-historical. Constant practice in sight
reading. Systematic study of high school Latin Grammar, with accompanying
prose composition based on Cæsar.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: High school grammar and
accompanying exercises.
Tuesday and Thursday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Cæsar, varied with Viri Romæ; the broad
outlines of Roman culture-history.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books. — Bennett's Latin Grammar and Preparatory Latin
Writer; Cæsar's Gallic War; Viri Romae; Abbott's Short History of
Rome; Botsford's Story of Rome.
3. Cicero.—For teachers in high schools and academies, for college
preparation, and for students of Latin at large.
This course involves Cicero's Four Orations against Catiline, the
Manilian Law and Pro Archia, with collateral readings in Nepos' Lives;
the private and public life of the Romans. The study of the author
will be grammatical, literary, and culture-historical. Constant practice
in sight reading. High School Latin grammar continued, with accompanying
prose composition based on Cicero.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: High school grammar and
accompanying exercises.
Tuesday and Thursday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Cicero, varied with Nepos; the private
and public life of the Romans.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Bennet's Latin Grammar and Latin Composition; Cicero's
Orations; Nepos' Lives; Johnston's Private Life of the Romans;
Gow's Companion to School Classics, sections on the Public Life of the
Romans.
4. Vergil.—For teachers in high schools and academies, for college
preparation, and for students of Latin at large.
This course involves Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI with collateral
readings in Ovid's Metamorphoses; the principles of Latin versification
with scansion of the dactylic hexameter; the mythology of the
Greeks and Romans. The study of the author will be grammatical,
literary and culture-historical. Constant practice in sight reading.
High school grammar concluded, with accompanying prose composition.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: High school grammar and
prose composition.
Tuesday and Thursday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Vergil, varied with Ovid; the mythology
of the Greeks and Romans.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily, from 9:30 to 10:30. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Latin Composition;
Vergil's Aeneid; Ovid's Metamorphoses (Miller); Fairbank's Mythology
of Greece and Rome; Bulfinch's Age of Fable.
Courses 5 and 6 are intended to open up to teachers and summer
students the more important fields of college Latin. They are devoted
to the broad cultural study of the language, literature, and life
of the Romans. Roman civilization is the link between the Hellenic
and the modern: the instruction will aim, therefore, to exhibit this
relation, and so, to emphasize the unity and continuity of all human
culture. The desirability of a knowledge of Greek and of at least one
Romanic language is especially commended to all who would reap
the full cultural and scientific benefit of the college course in Latin:
the Greek illumines incomparably all parts of Latin study, which in
turn bears fascinatingly upon the Romanic.
5. Livy (one third College course).—For teachers in colleges,
for college students, and for students of Latin at large.
This course is identical with that of the first term of 2B in the
catalogue of the University of Virginia. It involves Livy's Early History
of Rome (Books I-II), with collateral reading in Tacitus' Agricola,
and the religion of the Romans. The study of the author will be
grammatical, literary, and culture-historical. Constant exercise in
sight reading. College Latin grammar and exercises based on Livy.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: College Latin grammar
and prose composition (ten entire exercises in Nutting, beginning
1, 11, etc.).
Wednesday and Friday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Livy and Tacitus; the religion of the
Romans.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily (except Monday), from 2:30 to 3:30. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Gildersleeve-Lodge, Larger Latin Grammar and Nutting's
Advanced Latin Composition; Livy's Early History of Rome, Books
I-II; Tacitus' Germania; Johnston's Private Life of the Romans: Gow's
Companion to School Classics, sections on the Public Life of the Romans.
6. Catullus (one third College course).—For teachers in colleges,
for college students, and for students of Latin at large.
This course is identical with that of the second term of 2B in the
University of Virginia catalogue. It involves Catullus' Odes and Vergil's
Georgics; the rythm of lyric and didactic verse; the outlines of
the art life of the Greeks and Romans; college grammar and prose
composition.
(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: College grammar and
Latin prose composition (ten entire exercises in Gildersleeve-Lodge,
beginning 1, 13, etc.).
Wednesday and Friday. Professor Montgomery.
(b) Literature and Life: Catullus' Odes; Vergil's Georgics; the
history of the Greek and Roman Art.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Professor Fitzhugh.
Daily (except Monday), from 10:30 to 11:30. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Text-Books.—Gildersleeve-Lodge, Larger Latin Grammar and Latin
Greek Art; Goodyear's Roman Art.
Remark.—Any standard grammar or approved text will be adequate
to the purposes of the work. For those who desire to purchase,
special editions will be available at the University book stores.
Credits.—Any student who fulfills the conditions set forth on
pages 14 and 15 and who completes successfully courses 5 and 6 will be
given credit for the first and second terms work respectively of Latin
2B (See Catalogue of University of Virginia).
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