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SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.
Prof. Schele De Vere.
The subjects taught in this School are as follows:
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, its connection with the History of
English, and its relations to the study of Comparative Philology.
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; a Certificate of Proficiency in Anglo-Saxon.
The following text-books are used in the several languages:
French.
Junior Class.—The Professor's Grammar and First Reader, Télémaque, Saintine's
Picciola, Masson's Dictionary.
Senior Class.—The Professor's Grammar. Brachet's Grammar, Molière, Racine,
Voltaire, Taine's L'Angleterre, Masson's, Gasc's or Littré's Dictionary. A course of
private reading is prescribed. Prof. J. A. Harrison's French Syntax is recommended.
German.
Junior Class.—Otto's Grammar, Whitney's Reader, Schiller's William Tell, Whitney's
Dictionary.
Senior Class.—Whitney's and Wilmans' or Frauer's (German) Grammar, Whitney's
Dictionary, Schiller's Works, Gœthe's Autobiography and Faust, Jean Paul's
Flegeljahre. A course of private reading is prescribed.
Spanish.
The Professor's Grammar, Seoane's Dictionary, Velasquez' Reader, Colmena Española,
Don Quijote, Calderon's El Principe Constante, Lope's Estrella de Sevilla,
Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature. In default of the Professor's Grammar, now
out of print, Knapp's Spanish Grammar will be used.
Italian.
Cuore'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.
Anglo-Saxon.
Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, or Sweet's Primer, The Professor's Studies in English,
March's Anglo-Saxon Grammar, the Anglo-Saxon Gospels.
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