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SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Humphreys.
In this School there are three courses:
B. A. COURSE.
I. A general course, comprising what is deemed essential to a liberal classical
education. This course extends over two years.
A. First Year Class.—As a preparation for this class an accurate knowledge
of the regular Attic inflections and some experience in translating are necessary.
A thorough study of three books of Xenophon's Anabasis may be regarded as
the minimum of preparatory reading. The work of the class is directed to the
acquirement of practical familiarity with the simpler Attic prose. The Grammar
is carefully reviewed, and weekly exercises, based on Greek authors, are written.
The authors read are Xenophon and Lysias.
B. Second Year Class.—This class, for which the work of the preceding
year, or some equivalent, is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of
Attic prose, and enters upon the study of Epic and Ionic Greek and the Drama.
The Syntax is reviewed, and weekly exercises are given for translation into Attic
prose. The authors read are Plato, Demosthenes, Euripides, Herodotus, and
Metres. Graduation in this course is prescribed for those who select Greek as
one of their studies for the degree of B. A.
In preparing students for the B. A. course teachers are urged not to use Homer,
but to confine the instruction to Attic prose.
GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
II. An advanced course, adapted especially to the requirements of those who
desire to become teachers of the classics. It extends through one session of nine
months. For admission to this course, graduation in the preceding course is required;
but, when sufficiently prepared, students may be allowed to pursue both
courses simultaneously. In this course the Syntax of the Verb is thoroughly
studied, and weekly exercises, including passages from modern English authors,
are given to be translated into idiomatic Greek. Lectures are given on Rhythm
and Metres, and the students are practiced in reading rhythmically the lyric parts
of the Drama and the works of the Lyric Poets. The authors read are Demosthenes,
Æschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Pindar, and other Lyric
Poets. The course will be varied and modified as occasion may require. Graduation
in this course is prescribed for those who select Greek as one of their studies
for the degree of M. A.
PH. D.
III. A higher course, designed for those who wish to devote themselves to classical
scholarship. For admission to this course, graduation in the preceding course
is required, but in special cases students may be permitted to prosecute both courses
at the same time. At present it consists of four special courses, each comprising
two hours per week during a half session. The third year's course will be adapted
to the aims of the students. The lectures will be employed chiefly in directing
the private study of students.
The recent acquisition of the library of the late Professor Hertz has greatly increased
the facilities for philological research, and in connection with each course
special topics will be assigned to each student for investigation. In each course,
in addition to the special objects of study, attention will be given to the literary
aspect of the authors read and to the subject-matter involved. The courses offered
are as follows:
I. A course of selected readings extending over the whole field of Greek literature
in the order of historical development. This course is intended as a general
survey.
II. A course in Attic prose, especially the orators, directed partly to questions
of grammar, and partly to the artistic form and the style.
III. A study of the attic drama, including the special study in class of the
Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles and the Frogs of Aristophanes.
IV. A study of the Greek poets, with special reference to music, rhythm, metre,
and structure. The ancient doctrine of metre and rhythm will be carefully examined,
and portions of the Lyric poets, including Pindar, read in class.
For all the classes of this School private reading is prescribed, and the examinations
selected from the Greek authors at will.
Text-Books.—Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Moods and Tenses; Hogue's
Irregular Verbs; Veitch's Verbs; Liddell and Scott's Lexicon (Intermediate, and in
Courses II and III, unabridged seventh edition); Myers's History of Greece; Jebb's
Primer of Greek Literature. Any editions of Greek authors may be used, except
when particular ones are specially prescribed; but students should always have at
hand Teubner's texts for reference, and for use on examinations. At present Rhythm
and Metres and some other subjects are taught wholly or partly by lecture.
Hebrew.—Elementary instruction in Hebrew will be given when the demand
for such instruction is sufficient.
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