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LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
I.—SCHOOL OF LATIN.
PROF. PETERS.
The subjects taught in this School are the Latin Language and
Literature, with the history of Rome. The School is divided into
two classes, Junior and Senior.
The Text-books are—
1. Junior Class—Cæsar, Virgil, Terence, Ovid, Sallust.
2. Senior Class—Cicero, Horace, Livy, Juvenal, Tacitus.
Grammars.—Zumpt's, Gildersleeve's, Harrison's Exposition of
the Laws of the Latin Language.
Lexicons.—Andrew's, or Freund's Leverett.
History.—Browne's Roman Literature, Liddell's Rome, Long's
Atlas.
Instruction is given by Lectures and by Examination upon the
portions of text assigned for recitation. The exercises of rendering
Latin into English, and English into Latin, in writing, constitute
a prominent feature in the course. In addition to the portions
of the several authors read in the Lecture Room, a course of extra
and parallel reading is required in each class.
Sanskrit -The Professor of Latin will also give instruction in
Sanskrit.
Text-Books—Monier Williams' Grammar, Yates' Lexicon, selections
from the Mahâ-Bhârata.
II.—SCHOOL OF GREEK.
PROF. GILDERSLEEVE.
The School is divided into three classes: Junior, Intermediate and
Senior.
The Junior Class is intended especially for those who desire to
make a thorough review of the inflections and to acquire a practical
familiarity with the great principles of the language. The only
author read in this class is Xenophon.
Grammar.—Kühner's Elementary.
The authors read in the Intermediate Class are principally: Lysias,
Xenophon, Herodotus, Homer and Demosthenes; and in the Senior,
Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides and Plato.
Grammars.—Hadley's and Kühner's.
Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, Smith's History of Greece, Browne's
Greek Literature.
A private course of parallel and preparatory reading is also prescribed
for each class.
The Post Graduate Department has been instituted for the benefit
of graduates and others, who wish to pursue a more extended
course of reading. The authors read in this department are such
as are either by their form or subjects less suited for the regular
school, e. g., Æschylus, Aristophanes and Aristotle.
Hebrew.—The Professor of Greek will also give instruction in
Hebrew whenever the demand for such instruction is sufficient to
make the institution of a course of lectures expedient.
Grammar—Deutsch's.
III.—SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.
PROF. SCHELE DEVERE.
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,
Molière, 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, Velasquez'
Reader, Don Quixote, Calderon's El Principe Constante.
Italian.—Bacchi's Grammar, Monti's Reader, Manzoni's I Promessi
Sposi, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, Pellico's Le Mie Prigioni,
Dictionary.
Anglo-Saxon.—Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, The Professor's
Studies in English.
IV.—SCHOOL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
PROF. McGUFFEY.
Books requisite for the class in Mental Philosophy:
1. Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics.
2. Hamilton's Lectures on Logic.
3. Cousin's True, Beautiful and Good.
4. Jouffroy's Ethics.
5. Stewart's Active and Moral Powers.
6. Alexander's Moral Science.
7. Butler's Analogy and Sermons.
Three lectures each week are given.
V.—SCHOOL OF HISTORY, GENERAL LITERATURE
AND RHETORIC.
PROFESSOR HOLMES.
This School is divided into two distinct classes, one of History,
and one of Literature and Rhetoric. To each, two Lectures in the
week are regularly devoted; but exercises in literary composition are
required from the members of the Literary class. Each study may
be pursued separately.
In the Historical Class the successions, revolutions and various
aspects of the principal nations of the world are considered in such a
manner as to afford a general and connected view of the progress
of political and social organizations. Institutions and laws are noted
as the manifestations of different phases of society; an attempt is
made to discover and elucidate the conditions of historical advancement
and to refer the changes of nations and governments to the
operation of regular principles.
In the abs nce of appropriate text-books, the following are employed
for study and reference:
Schmitz's Manual of Ancient History; Smith's History of Greece;
Gibbon Abridged by Smith; Taylor's Manual of Modern History.
For reference: Long's Ancient Atlas; Appleton's (College) Atlas,
or Chamber's Atlas; Blair's Chronology, (Bohn's edition.)
In the Class of Literature and Rhetoric, the English Language,
English Composition, Rhetoric and the English Classics, with the
History of English Literature, are studied.
The origin, growth and philological peculiarities of the Language
will be considered; the various influences, domestic and external,
by which it has been brought to its present condition, will be
explained; the general principles of Rhetoric and Criticism will be
taught; the lives of the most eminent authors in the language will
examination and appreciation of their chief productions will occupy
much of the time of the student. The class will also be required
to practise Literary Composition.
Text-Books in this department are very deficient. The following
will be used for the present:
Angus's Hand Book of the English Tongue; Jamieson's Grammar
of Rhetoric; Shaw's Complete Manual of English Literature,
Ed. Smith and Tuckerman; Student's Specimens of English Literature,
Ed. Shaw and Smith, London.
Shakspeare's Complete Works; Milton's Poetical Works.
POLITICAL ECONOMY.
In the Class of Political Economy, temporarily connected with
this school, the Text-Books heretofore and still used are Say's Political
Economy, Mill's (J. S.) Political Economy. Two Lectures
a week are given.
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