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.
