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M. A. COURSE.

Early English.—In this class the historical and philological study of the
language is pursued, the class beginning with its oldest forms, and tracing the
language, by the study of specimens, through its different periods to the formation
of modern English. After a thorough study of the grammar, selected
pieces of Old and Middle English prose and poetry are read, with a view to acquiring
a philological knowledge of the origin and structure of English. Lectures
on the position of English in the Indo-European family of languages, and
on the history of the language, are also given. Three lectures a week.

Text-Books.—Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader; Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early
English, Parts I. and II.; Cook's Sievers's Grammar of Old English; Earle's Anglo-Saxon
Literature. For Reference.—Ten Brink's Early English Literature; Brooke's History of
Early English Literature.