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SCHOOL OF 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 Language, 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 M. A.
Diplomas of Graduation are conferred in each of the four languages
mentioned in §§ 1 and 2; a Certificate of Proficiency in Anglo-Saxon.
French.
Text-books.—Junior Class.—The Professor's Grammar and First Reader, Télémaque,
Saintine's Picciola, Masson's Dictionary.
Senior Class.—The Professor's Grammar, Brachet's or Breyman's Grammar, Molière,
Racine, Voltaire, Taine's L'Angleterre, Masson's, or Littré's Dictionary. An extensive
course of private reading is prescribed.
German.
Junior Class.—Otto's Grammar, Whitney's Reader, Schiller's William Tell, Whitney's
Dictionary.
Senior Class.—Whitney's and Wilmans' (German) Grammar, Whitney's Dictionary,
Schiller's Works, Gœthe's Autobiography and Faust, Jean Paul's Flegeljahre. An
extensive course of private reading is prescribed.
Spanish.
The Professor's Grammar, Seoane's Dictionary, Colmena Española, Don Quixote,
Calderon's El Principe Constante, Lope's Estrella de Sevilla, Ticknor's History of
Spanish Literature.
Italian.
Foresti's Grammar, Foresti's Reader, Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi, Tasso's Gerusalemme
Liberata, Pellico's Le Mie Prigioni, Petrarca, Dante's La Divina Commedia,
Dictionary.
Anglo-Saxon.
Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, The Professor's Studies in English, March's Anglo-Saxon
Grammar, the Anglo-Saxon Gospels.
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