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French and German.
Adjunct Professor Perkinson.
There will be two classes in each language.
The Junior Classes embrace the work for the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. Students who desire to enter them must possess an accurate
grammar of the language, and will be practiced in pronunciation, on
which special stress will be laid, and in translation, supplemented by
weekly written exercises, copious parallel reading, and a course in the
history and the literature of the language. The amount of parallel
reading to be done is definite, and is assigned at the beginning of the
session. Special attention is paid to reading at sight.
The Senior Classes comprise the work required for the degree of
Master of Arts. They study the historical grammar of the language,
given by lectures, continue the practice of translation and composition,
and enter more minutely into the study of certain authors and selected
periods. Candidates for graduation will be expected to translate at
sight any passage that may be assigned, and to render selections from
English authors into the foreign idiom.
The text-books in all the classes and the authors to be read vary from
year to year, and are subject to change at any time. The following are
the books for class-work in 1892-'93. Parallel reading will be assigned
in all classes at the beginning of the session.
Junior French.—Edgren's Grammar; Whitney's Introductory French Reader;
La Mare au Diable; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Cinna; Un Philosophe sous
les Toits.
Junior German.—Whitney's Brief Grammar; Joynes-Meissner's Grammar;
Brandt's Reader; Hermann und Dorothea; Wilhelm Tell; Das Bild des Kaisers.
Senior French.—Whitney's Practical Grammar; Polyeucte; Esther; Le Misanthrope;
Taine's Notes sur L'Angleterre; Notre Dame de Paris.
Senior German.—Whitney's Grammar; Heine's Prosa; Iphigenie auf Tauris,
Torquato Tasso, Minna von Barnhelm.
Gasc's French Dictionary.
Adler's German Dictionary.
In the Graduate Course in this School students will read additional
foreign authors, pursue the study of Comparative Philology, and
write monthly essays on kindred subjects, which must give proof of
original research. A thorough knowledge of at least one ancient language,
and graduation in two modern languages, are deemed prerequisite.
Such students will have the choice between the two methods of
comparing idioms—either by tracing out the kinship existing between
several languages, or families of languages, such as the Romanic, the
Germanic, or the Slavic, in their lexical, grammatical, or psychological
nature; or by comparing with each other the different aspects borne
by one and the same idiom in its successive periods of life. The writings
of Diez, Hovelacque, Sayce, Max Müller, and others, are carefully
studied; and the final result of the whole course of study is to
be shown in a concluding dissertation evidencing original thought.
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