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III. SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.

PROF. SCHELE DE VERE.

The subjects taught in this School are:

1. The French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages.

2. The Literature of these languages, and the History of
each idiom, embracing the general principles of the formation
and growth of languages, and of Comparative Grammar
and Philology.

3. The Anglo-Saxon language, and, in connection with
it, the History and Laws of the English language.

Graduation in French and German is required for the
degree of A. M.


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Text-Books.French — Junior Class—The Professor's
Grammar and First Reader, Télémaque, Charles XII.

Senior Class—The Professor's Grammar, Advanced Reader,
Molière, Racine, Voltaire, Saintine's Picciola, Spiers
and Surenne's Dictionary.

German.—Junior Class—Otto's Grammar, Whitney's
Reader, Schiller's William Tell.

Senior Class—Whitney's Grammar, Adler's Dictionary,
Schiller's Works, Gœthe's Autobiography, Jean Paul's
Walt and Vult.

Spanish.—The Professor's Grammar, Seoane's Dictionary,
Velasquez' Reader, Don Quixote, Calderon's El Principe
Constante.

Italian.—Bacchi's Grammar, Monti's Reader, Manzoni's
I Promessi Sposi, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, Pellico's
Le Mie Prigioni, Dictionary.

Anglo-Saxon.—Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, The Professor's
Studies in English.