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SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Humphreys,
Mr. Young.
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 a 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 necessary 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 Homer. Instruction is
given in History, Literature, Antiquities, and the simpler 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 specially 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, or equivalent preparation, is required,
but in special cases students may 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 Œdipus 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 will be partly upon this and the work done in class,
and partly upon passages selected from the Greek authors at will.
HELLENISTIC.
Instruction will be given in New Testament Greek. This course will
extend through one session of nine months, the class meeting three
times a week. The preparation should be equivalent to that required
for the second year B. A. course.
The instruction will be free from sectarian bias, and will be specially
adapted to ministerial students intending to prosecute further
studies at a theological seminary, though others will not be excluded.
The course will begin with the study of the Gospel according to
Matthew, for which purpose any recent text will suffice. Other needed
works will be indicated after the session opens.
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
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.
The Instructor, Mr. Young, will conduct a course in Hebrew. No
knowledge of the language will be required for admission to this
course. The text-books needed will be made known at the opening of
the session.
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