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SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor 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
and by written and oral exercises.
A full knowldge 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.
Junior Class.—The work of this class is directed to the acquirement of a
practical familiarity with the simpler Attic prose. The Grammar is rapdly
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 and Lysias. The Geography and Political
History of Greece are taught in this class.
Intermediate Class.—This class, for which the Junior course, or some
equivalent, is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of Attic prose
usage, and enters upon the study of the Drama and of Homer. Weekly
exercises for translation into Greek are given, each being 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, Plato, Euripides, and Homer. Instruction in Greek
Literature and Antiquities is given in this class.
Senior Class.—The successful pursuit of the Senior course demands such
attainments as may be acquired in the two lower classes, or an equivalent.
The authors read this session are Demosthenes, 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 specially prepared or taken from standard English writers.
Text-Books.—Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon (seventh edition), Veitch's Greek
Verbs, Goodwin's Greek Grammar, Goodwin's Greek Moods and Tenses, and approved
editions of the authors read.
For each class a course of private reading is prescribed, not restricted to
the authors named above.
The state of preparation of a pupil 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 will be given when the
demand for such instruction is sufficient.
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