PH. D. COURSE.
This course 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.
