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I. ANCIENT LANGUAGES.

Professor Harrison.—In this School are taught the Latin and Greek
languages; the Greek and Roman History, Geography, and Literature;
and the Hebrew language. The instruction is given partly by lectures and
examinations, and partly by comments on portions of the text books appointed
to be read by the student. It embraces the following subjects, distributed
according to the classes:

I. Junior Latin.—1. General principles and doctrines of Etymology.

2. The application of these general principles in the explanation of the
formation and composition of the words of the language, considered individually,

and without regard to their relations to other words in a sentence.

The doctrine of the primary and secondary signification of words is considered
in connection with this branch of the subject, and is illustrated in
the lectures from day to day as occasion may offer.

3. The accidence, or inflectional forms of words, expressing the relations
in which they stand to other words in a sentence. These modifications
of the forms of words are in like manner explained by the application
of the general principles of the Etymology.

4. The Syntax, or laws which govern the relations existing between the
several parts of a sentence or a discourse, whether indicated by the inflections
of words, or by particles. This subject is treated of partly in lectures
specially devoted to it, partly by way of prelections and comment on the
portions of authors read in the lecture room, and partly in connection with
the written exercises.

For the above subjects the text books are the professor's printed notes,
with Zumpt's, or Andrew's and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, and Beck's
Latin Syntax.

5. The doctrine of the quantity of syllables, and the metres. The students
are advised to use Carey's Latin Prosody, or, Anthon's Prosody,
which contains what is most useful in Carey's.

6. The Latin authors used as text books are Horace, Virgil, Cicero's
Orations, and his Epistles ad Diversos, Terence, and Cæsar's Commentaries.
The last chiefly with a view to the written exercises.

II. Senior Lalin.—1. Prelections and commentaries on portions of the
classic authors, embracing, besides the other matters necessary for the better
understanding of these, a further development of the doctrines of philology
taught in the Junior Class.

The text books are Horace, Juvenal, Livy, and Tacitus.

2. Geography of Ancient Italy.—The professor's printed notes form the
text book. The maps of ancient and modern Italy, published by the "Society
for the diffusion of useful knowledge," are recommended.

3. Roman History. This subject is taught by prelections, and by examinations
on the text books. These are the History of Rome published by
the "Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge," Niebuhr's History of
Rome, Ferguson's Roman Republic, and Heeren's Manual.

III. Junior Greek.—1. The Etymology, considered in its general principles
and in its applications, the Syntax, and the Prosody and metres, are
taught to this class in the same way as to the Junior Latin.

For these subjects Buttmann's larger Greek Grammar is the text book.

The Greek authors read and explained in the lecture room, are Xenophon's
Anabasis, Herodotus, and a play of Æschylus or Euripides. The
Greek and English Lexicon of Donnegan is that preferred.

IV. Senior Greek.—1. Prelections and commentaries on portions of the
Greek classic authors, in the same way as in the Senior Latin class, and
embracing the like subjects.

The Greek authors used as text books in this class are Euripides, Sophocles,
Thucydides, and Homer. The student should have Matthiae's
Greek Grammar, 5th edition of the translation.

2. Ancient Geography of Greece. The printed notes of the professor
form the text.

3. Ancient History of Greece. This is taught by prelections, and by
examinations on the text books. These are Thirlwall's History of Greece,
Gillies' History of Greece, the History of Greece published by the Society
for the diffusion of useful knowledge, and Heeren's Manual.

It is expected of the students of Latin and Greek, that they shall read
in their rooms such authors and parts of authors, prescribed by the Professor,
as cannot be read in the lecture room: e. g.: Cicero's Epistles to
Atticus, his Orations (selected,) and Treatise "de Republica;" Sallust,
Virgil, Terence, Plautus: Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes,
Demosthenes, Æschines, Thucydides, &c.

As an essential part of the plan of instruction, the students of each class
are required to furnish written exercises; which consist 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: they are
then returned to the students, and the corrections stated and explained in
the presence of the class. For these exercises the classic authors are used
as the text.

V. Hebrew.—The text books are Biblia Hebraica, Bush's Hebrew
Grammar, and Gesenii Lexicon Manuale Hebr. et Chald., or Sauerwein's
edition of Rehkopf's Lex. Hebr. Chald.