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SCHOOL OF GREEK.

Prof. Humphreys.

The School is organized in three classes, the Junior, the Intermediate,
and the Senior. The method of instruction is by lectures, by daily
examination upon the matter of the lectures and upon assigned portions
of the text-books, and by written and oral exercises.

A full knowledge of the regular Attic inflections and some experience
in translation are necessary as a preparation for the Junior
Class. Two books of Xenophon's Anabasis, or some suitable equivalent,
may be regarded as a proper amount of preparatory reading.
Diligent students inadequately prepared often make good progress with
the aid of a Licentiate. (See p. 75.)

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The Junior Class is intended to give a practical familiarity with the
simpler Attic prose. The Grammar is rapidly but carefully reviewed;
for translation into Greek, sentences are given out which involve the
vocabulary and the idioms of the Greek texts studied. The authors
read are Xenophon (parts of the Memorabilia and of the Cyropedia),
and Lysias. The Geography and Political History of Greece are
taught in this class.

The Intermediate Class, for which the Junior course, or some
equivalent, is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of Attic
prose usage, and gives an introduction to authors of great literary importance
who wrote in other dialects. Weekly exercises for translation
into Greek are given, each a passage of simple but idiomatic English
based on a Greek author. Selected portions of the Grammar are
closely studied and the whole syntax is reviewed. The authors read
are Lysias, Herodotus, and Homer. Instruction in Greek Antiquities
is given in this class.

The Senior Class demands such attainments as may be acquired in
the two lower classes, or an equivalent. The main purpose of the instruction
is to introduce students, as far as practicable, to the masterpieces
of the literature of Athens. The authors read this session are
Demosthenes, Plato, Sophocles, Thucydides, Aristophanes, and the
fragments of the Lyric Poets. The Syntax of the Greek Verb is discussed,
and courses of lectures are given upon Metres and the History
of Greek Literature. The weekly exercises are partly based on ancient
authors and partly taken from standard English writers.

Text-books.—Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon, Veitch's Greek Verbs, Hadley's Greek
Grammar, Goodwin's Greek Moods and Tenses, Smith's History of Greece, Fyffe's Primer
of Greek History, Tozer's Primer of Ancient Geography, Mahaffy's Primer of Greek Antiquities,
and the Teubner (or Weidmann) text editions of the authors read. The Junior Class
uses Goodwin's Grammar.

For each class a course of private reading is prescribed.

The state of preparation of a student joining the school may often
make it expedient to take two classes at once.

In the examination of candidates for graduation, all the subjects
taught in the School are involved, and the passages set for translation
are selected from the classic writers at will.

Hebrew.—Elementary instruction in Hebrew is given when the demand
for such instruction is sufficient. During the present session
such instruction is given by Rev. James M. Rawlings, the Licentiate
in Hebrew.