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1.—ANTIENT LANGUAGES.

Professor Harrison.—In this school are taught the Latin
and Greek Languages, and Literature, and the Hebrew Language.
The instruction, given by prelections and examinations,
comprises the following subjects:

1. The formation and composition of words and the principles
which govern them.

2. The primary and secondary significations of words and
the principles by which they must be ascertained.

3. The structure of the language, as intimately connected
with the formation of words, particularly as relates to
their terminations, and taught in connexion with it; with constant
attention to the order and arrangement, no less than to
the other idioms of the language.

4. Metres and quantity.

The text-books used, are, in the Latin class:—Horace,
Juvenal, Cicero's Epistels `ad Diversos,' Tacitus, Virgil, and
Terence; Zumpt's Latin Grammar is recommended, and
Carey's Latin Prosody.

In the Junior Greek class:—Xenophon's Anabasis, a play
of Æschylus or Euripides, and a book of Herodotus.

In the Senior Greek class:—Herodotus, Euripides, Sophocles,
Thucydides and Homer; Donnegan's Greek and English
Lexicon, Buttmann's Greek Grammar, translated, and
Thiersch's Greek Tables, by Patton, are recommended.

In Hebrew; Biblia Hebraica, Edit: Van Der Hooght, by
D'Allemand, London 1825. Stuart's Hebrew Grammar, 3rd
Edition, Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon, translated by Gibbs.
Extra lectures are given to the Latin and Greek classes,
for the purpose of explaining such authors as cannot well be
read in the lecture room, or of farther studying those there
read:—e. g. Cicero's Orations, Terence, Plautus, Livy, &c.
Xenophon's Anabasis, Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes,
Demosthenes, &c.

It is expected of the students to read, besides, in their
rooms, a list of authors, and parts of authors, furnished by the
Professor.

The Greek and Roman History and Geography are taught

by lectures, in which the object had in view is to instil the
principles of historical criticism and direct the attention of
the student to the more important points, rather than give
details which may be learned from the books pointed out.

As an essential part of the course, the sudents of each class
are required to furnish regularly, once a week, a written exercise,
which consists in the conversion of Latin or Greek into
English, and of English into Latin or Greek. The exercises are
examined by the Professor and the errors marked: thus corrected,
they are returned to the students, and the corrections
stated and enforced in the presence of the class. For these
exercises, the classic authors are used as the text, and not a
book of exercises. The blackboard is continually used for
the purpose of assisting the student, by the aid of the eye,
in comprehending and retaining the illustrations given.