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SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Humphreys.
In this School there are three courses:
I. A general course, comprising what is deemed essential to a liberal classical
education. This course extends over two years.
A.—First Year Class. As a preparation for this class an accurate knowledge
of the regular Attic inflections and some experience in translating are necessary.
A thorough study of two books of Xenophon's Anabasis may be regarded as the
minimum of preparatory reading. The work of the class is directed to the acquirement
of practical familiarity with the simpler Attic prose. The Grammar
is carefully reviewed, and weekly exercises, based on Greek authors, are written.
The authors read are Xenophon and Lysias.
B.—Second Year Class. This class, for which the work of the preceding
year, or some equivalent, is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of
Attic prose, and enters upon the study of Epic and Ionic Greek and the Drama.
The Syntax is reviewed, and weekly exercises are given for translation into
Attic prose. The authors read are Plato, Demosthenes, Euripides, Herodotus
and Homer. Instruction is given in History, Literature, Antiquities, and the
Greek as one of their studies for the degree of B. A.
II. An advanced course, adapted especially to the requirements of those
who desire to become teachers of the classics. It extends through one session
of nine months. For admission to this course, graduation in the preceding course
is required; but, when sufficiently prepared, students may be allowed to pursue
both courses simultaneously. In this course the Syntax of the Verb is thoroughly
studied, and weekly exercises, including passages from modern English authors,
are given to be translated into idiomatic Greek. Lectures are given on Rhythm
and Metres, and the students are practised in reading rhythmically the lyric parts
of the Drama and the works of the Lyric Poets. The authors read are Demosthenes,
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Pindar, and other
Lyric Poets. The course will be varied and modified as occasion may require.
Graduation in this course is prescribed for those who select Greek as one of
their studies for the degree of M. A.
III. A special course designed for those who wish to devote themselves to
classical scholarship. For admission to this course, graduation in the preceding
course is required, but in special cases students may be permitted to prosecute
both courses at the same time. The work of this course will be adapted to the
special aims of those pursuing it, but will, in all cases, include extensive reading
of Greek authors and minute study of some branch of Greek philology.
Those who select Greek as one of their studies for the degree of Ph. D.,
will be required to pursue this course for two years.
In all the courses private reading is prescribed, and the examinations will
be partly upon this and the work done in class, and partly upon passages selected
from the Greek authors at will.
Text-Books.—Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Moods and Tenses; Hogue's
Irregular Verbs; Veitch's Verbs; Liddell and Scott's Lexicon (Intermediate, and in courses
II. and III., unabridged seventh edition); Smith's History of Greece; Jebb's Primer of Greek
Literature. Any editions of Greek authors may be used except when particular ones are
specially prescribed; but students should always have at hand Teubner's texts for reference,
and for use on examinations. At present Rhythm and Metres and some other subjects are
taught wholly or partly by lecture.
Hebrew.—Elementary instruction in Hebrew will be given when the demand
for such instruction is sufficient.
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