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III.—MODERN LANGUAGES.
PROF. SCHELE DE VERE.
The subjects taught in this school are:
1. The French, German, Italian and Spanish languages.
2. The Literature of these languages, and the History of
each idiom, embracing the general principles of the formation
and growth of languages, and of Comparative Grammar and
Philology.
3. The Anglo-Saxon language, and, in connection with it,
the History and Laws of the English language.
Graduation in French and German is required for the degree
of A. M.
Text Books.—French—Junior Class—The Professor's Grammar
and First Reader, Télémaque, Charles XII.
Senior Class—The Professor's Advanced Grammar, Reader,
Moilère, Racine, Voltaire, Saintine's Picciola, Spiers and Surenne's
Dictionary.
German.—Junior Class—Otto's Grammar, small Dictionary,
Schiller's William Tell.
Senior Class—Otto's Grammar, Adler's Dictionary, Schiller's
Works, Gœthe's Autobiography, Jean Paul's Walt and Wult.
Spanish.—The Professor's Grammar, Seoane's Dictionary,
Velasquèz' Reader, Don Quixote, Calderon's El Principe Constante.
Italian.—Bacci's Grammar, Monti's Reader, Manzoni's I
Promessi Sposi, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, Pellicôs Le
Mie Prigioni, Dictionary.
Anglo-Saxon.—Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, The Professor's
Studies in English.
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