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II.—GREEK.

PROFESSOR GILDERSLEEVE.

The subjects taught in this school, are:

1. The Greek language.

2. Greek literature.

3. History of Greece.

The method of instruction comprises lectures (systematic and
exegetical), examinations and written exercises.

This school is divided into two classes—Junior and Senior.
For admission into the Senior Class, there is held at the commencement
of the session an examination in writing, from which
those only are exempt, who have been members of the Senior
Class before, or who have attained distinction in the Junior Class
of a former year.

The classic authors read in the Senior Class, are principally:
Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides and Plato; in the Junior
Class: Lysias, Xenophon, Herodotus, Homer and Demosthenes.
A private course of parallel and preparatory reading is also prescribed
for each class.

Works of reference.—For the lectures on the structure and
syntax of the language, Hadley's Greek Grammar, Kühner's
School Grammar.

For the lectures on the History of Greece (Senior Class),
Thirlwall's and Grote's History of Greece.

The written exercises and the comments on the corrections
constitute a prominent feature in the plan of instruction.

In connection with this school, a Post-graduate Department
has been formed, in which graduates and more advanced students
have opportunity to extend their acquaintance with Greek Literature,
under the personal direction of the Professor. This course
embraces such of the higher Greek classics, as are unsuited
either by form or by subject for the general plan of instruction;
e. g. Æschylus, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Hesiod, Pindar, Theocritus.

4. The Hebrew language.

Text Books.—Biblia Hebraica, Rödiger's Gesenius' Hebrew
Grammar, and Gesenius' Lexicon Manuale Hebraicum et Chaldaicum.