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SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Peters.
This School is divided into three classes—Junior, Intermediate and
Senior.
Junior Class.—A student who is able to read Cæsar or Vergil, and
has a proper acquaintance with the Forms, is prepared to enter this
class. The class begins with Sallust or a writer of like difficulty.
work is the study of the Case-relations, the exact force of the
Tenses, and a consecutive outline of the connections in which the Subjunctive
Mood is required. Principles and facts explained are applied
by frequent exercises in Latin Composition. The reading is confined
to selected portions of Sallust, Ovid, Curtius, and Vergil. A limited
amount from each author is prescribed for private reading. For the
examinations, passages are selected for translation from the Latin assigned
as private reading. There are two examinations—the Intermediate,
held about the middle of the session; the Final, at its close.
These examinations are conducted in writing.
Intermediate Class.—Work in this class will be directed to the
acquirement of readiness in translation and syntactical interpretation,
with as little specialistic investigation as is consistent with a general
but sound and permanent knowledge of the language. As an indispensable
auxiliary to this end written exercises in translating English
into Latin and Latin into English will be required. Proper attention
will be given to Roman History and Literature. The metrical work
will be limited to the structure and accurate recitation of the Dactylic,
Anapæstic, Trochaic, and Iambic verses, with the verses occurring in
the odes of Horace. Translation will be confined to Livy, Horace,
Cicero, Seneca, or Tacitus. Selections from each author will be assigned
as parallel reading. There will be two written examinations—
Intermediate and Final.
Senior Class.—This class commences with Juvenal or Livy, and
reads during the session selected portions of Juvenal, Livy, Cicero,
Seneca, Tacitus, or a play of Plautus. The Case-relations are reviewed,
and the Syntax of the Verb is systematically presented. Latin versification
is taken up early in the session and continued throughout the
term. A theoretical acquaintance with this subject is insufficient.
Prompt identification and correct recitation of every variety of Latin
verse is insisted upon. A very prominent place is assigned to Latin
Composition as an indispensable means of acquiring an exact knowledge
of the Language. Portions of the authors read in the Lecture-room
are designated as parallel and private reading. The object of
parallel reading is to enable a student to acquire a more copious vocabulary
than is furnished by the limited amount of Latin read in the
Lecture-room, and to afford a wider field for the application of the
principles explained in the Lectures. In this class there are two examinations—one
occurring about the middle of the session, the second at
its close. The examinations are conducted in writing. For the second
the parallel and partly from Latin which the class has not read. In
this class due attention is given to Roman History and Literature.
Text-Books.—Any approved edition of the authors above named.
Grammars—Gildersleeve's, Syntax of the Verb by the Professor, Printed Lectures
by the Professor on the Latin Cases and Versification.
History.—Liddell's, with Long's or any approved Atlas.
Literature—Bender's, as a Hand-book and Guide, supplemented by Lectures.
The Graduate Course in this School is intended for students who
propose to teach or desire to equip themselves for original investigation
in the language. The scope of the work is such as to familiarize
them with the language in its several periods. An extensive
course of reading is prescribed, and subjects for independent investigation
are from time to time assigned. The Lecture-room exercises consist
in translation and the discussion by the student of the passage translated.
He is invited to propound such questions to the Professor, or to
a member of the class, as he would to a pupil. In addition, a careful
translation from some one of the best Latin prose writers is prepared,
and the student is required at once to write on the blackboard his Latin
rendering of it, and to give his reasons as well for the periods as for
the syntactical constructions employed. Though it requires at least
two years to complete this course, yet one year given to it abundantly
repays the student, as the greater part of the first year of the course is
devoted to the archaic period of the language, which cannot be considered
to any great extent in the under-graduate course.
The work of the Intermediate Class is required for the degree of
Bachelor of Arts.
The work of the Senior Class is required for the degree of Master
of Arts. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy the completion
of a graduate course is required.
Sanskrit.—The Professor will also give instruction in the elements
of Sanskrit whenever a sufficient number of students desire it.
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