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SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Peters,
Mr. Wright.
B. A. COURSE.
A. First Year.—A student who is able to translate Cæsar or Vergil, and has
a proper acquaintance with the Forms, is prepared to enter this course, which
begins with Sallust or a writer of like difficulty. Systematic attention is given to
the study of the Forms. The syntactical work is the study of the Case-relations,
the exact force of the Tenses, and a consecutive outline of the connections in
which the Subjunctive Mood is required. Principles and facts explained are
applied by frequent exercises in Latin Composition. The reading is confined to
selected portions of Sallust, Ovid, Curtius and Vergil. A limited amount from
each author is prescribed for private reading. For the examinations, passages
are selected for translation from the Latin assigned as private reading. These
examinations are conducted in writing.
B. Second Year.—The work of this year will be directed to the acquirement
of readiness in translation and syntactical interpretation, with as little specialistic
investigation as is consistent with a general but sound and permanent knowledge
of the language. As an indispensable auxiliary to this end, written exercises in
translating English into Latin and Latin into English will be required. Proper
attention will be given to Roman History and Literature. The metrical work
will be limited to the structure and accurate recitation of the Dactylic, Anapæstic,
Trochaic, and Iambic verses, with the verses occurring in the odes of Horace.
Translation will be confined to Livy, Horace, Cicero, Seneca and Tacitus. Selections
from each author will be assigned as parallel reading. The student who
completes the work of this year will be entitled to a diploma of graduation in the
B. A. course in Latin.
GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
This course commences with Juvenal or Livy, and includes selected portions of
Juvenal, Livy, Cicero, Seneca, Tacitus and Plautus. The Case-relations are reviewed,
and the Syntax of the Verb is systematically presented. Latin versification
is taken up early in the session and continued throughout the term. A
theoretical acquaintance with this subject is insufficient. Prompt identification
and correct recitation of every variety of Latin verse is insisted upon. A very
prominent place is assigned to Latin Composition as an indispensable means of
acquiring an exact knowledge of the language. Portions of the authors read in
the lecture room are designated as parallel and private reading. The object of
parallel reading is to enable a student to acquire a more copious vocabulary than
is furnished by the limited amount of Latin read in the lecture room, and to afford
a wider field for the application of the principles explained in the lectures. The
examinations are conducted in writing. For the third or final examination, passages
which the class has not read. In Roman History and Literature the work is that
of the B. A. course. The completion of the work of this year entitles the student
to the diploma of graduation in the M. A. course in Latin, if the work of the
B. A. course has been completed.
Text-Books.—Any approved edition of the authors above named.
Grammars.—Gi dersleeve's, Syntax of the Verb by the Professor, Print d Lectures
by the Professor on the Latin Cases and Versification.
History.—Liddell's, with Long's or any approved Atlas.
Lit rature.—Bender's, as a Handbook and Guide, supplemented by Lectures
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.
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