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.
