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French and German.

Adjunct Professor Perkinson.

There are three courses in each language.

B. A. COURSE.

Students who desire to enter this must possess an accurate knowledge of
the elements of English grammar, and some familiarity with the rudiments of
the language studied, or in lieu thereof a careful training in Latin. They will
study the 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.

M. A. COURSE.

This embraces the historical grammar of the language, given by lectures,
continued practice in translation and composition, and the minute 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.

PH. D. COURSE.

This is designed for students who wish to make a special study of the literature
or the philology of French and German. Only those who have been graduated
in the lower courses are admitted to it. The work will be adapted to the
aims of the student, but will in all cases be designed to encourage and direct
him to original research, independent conclusions, and systematic presentation
of results.

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 the class-work in 1894-'95. Parallel reading will be assigned in all classes
at the beginning of the session.

B. A. French.—Whitney's Grammar and Introductory French Reader; About's Le
Roi des Montagnes; Souvestre's Confessions d'un Ouvrier; Racine's Esther; Molière's
Le Misanthrope; Contes de Balzac.

B. A. German.—Whitney's Brief Grammar; Joynes-Meissner's Grammar; Joynes's
German Reader; Hauff's Das Wirthshaus im Spessart; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Goethe's
Hermann und Dorothea.

M. A. French.—Whitney's Grammar for reference; Racine's Andromaque, Britannicus,
Phèdre, Athalie; Victor Hugo's Travailleurs de la Mer.

M. A. German.—Whitney's Grammar for reference; Riehl's Culturgeschichtliche Novellen;
Goethe's Faust; Scheffel's Ekkehard; Lessing's Nathan der Weise.

Gasc's French Dictionary.

Adler's German Dictionary.

Students who elect this School for the M. A. degree will be required to
graduate in German and one of the Romance Languages.