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French and German.

Adjunct Professor Perkinson.

Acting Professor Reinhard.

There are three courses in each language.

B. A. COURSE.

Students who desire to enter this must possess an accurate knowlege 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 1895-'96. 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.