PH. D.
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 undergraduate course.
