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M. A.

This course is open to those who have completed the B. A. course, or its
equivalent. Here the syntax and historical grammar are treated at length by
lectures, aided by books of reference. More difficult translation and composition


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are required, and a study is made of certain authors. Candidates for
graduation in this course are required to translate at sight any passages that may
be assigned, and to render at sight into German one or more English selections.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10 a. m.

Text-Books.—Whitney's Grammar (compendious) for reference; Heine's Prosa;
Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit (Buchheim), Iphigenie auf Tauris, and Faust.

The authors to be specially considered during the session of 1898-99, are Heine and
Goethe.