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I.—ANCIENT LANGUAGES.

PROFESSOR HARRISON.

ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR, EDWARD S. JOYNES, A. M.

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 students.

In Latin there are two classes, a Junior and a Senior, and so in
Greek.

The text-books used in the several classes are chiefly the following:

1. In the Junior Latin Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar, the
Professor's Exposition of some of the laws of the Latin Language,
Virgil, Horace, Cicero's Orations and his Epistolæ ad Diversos,
Terence, and Cæsar's Commentaries; the last chiefly with a view
to the written exercises.

2. In the Senior Latin Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar, the
Professor's Exposition, Horace, Juvenal, Livy and Tacitus.

3. In the Junior Greek Class: Kühner's Elementary Greek
Grammar, Xenophon's Anabasis, an oration of Demosthenes,
Herodotus, and a play of Euripides or Æschylus. The Greek-English
Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is that preferred.

4. In the Senior Greek Class: Kühner's Larger Greek Grammar,
Euripides, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Homer.

5. For the Roman History, studied in the Senior Latin Class,
Arnold's History of Rome is used as a text-book. Niebuhr's
History of Rome, and the History of Rome published by the Society
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the maps of
ancient Italy published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, or Findlay's Ancient Atlas, are recommended.

6. For the Ancient History of Greece, studied in the Senior
Greek Class, the History of Greece published by the Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or Thirlwall's, or Grote's
History of Greece, and the maps published by the Society for the
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or Findlay's Ancient Atlas, are
recommended.

It is expected of the students of Latin and Greek, that they will
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,
Plato, &c.

As an essential part of the plan of instruction, the students of
each class are required to furnish written exercises. These 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.

7. Hebrew: The text-books are Biblia Hebraica, Nordheimer's
or Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, amd Gesenii Lexicon Manuale
Hebr. et Chald., or Sauerwein's edition of Rehkopf's Lex.
Hebr. Chald.

In the written translations required as a test of the qualifications
of candidates for degrees, the passages used are selected by the
committee of examination, not from the portions of authors which
have been read and explained in the lecture-room, but at will
from the classic writers generally.