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SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Prof. Peters.
The subjects taught in this school are the Latin Language and Literature,
with the History of Rome. The School is divided into three
classes: Junior, Intermediate, and Senior.
Text-Books—Junior Class—Cæsar, Ovid, Sallust.
Intermediate Class—Cicero, Virgil, Terence, Livy.
Senior Class—Cicero, Horace, Livy, Juvenal, Tacitus.
Grammar.—Zumpt's, Gildersleeve's, Harrison's Exposition of the
Laws of the Latin Language.
Lexicons.—Andrew's, or Freund's Leverett.
History.—Browne's Roman Literature, Liddell's Rome, Long's
Atlas.
Instruction is given by lectures and by examinations upon the portions
of text assigned for recitation. The exercises of rendering Latin
into English, and English into Latin, in writing, constitute a prominent
feature in the course. In addition to the portions of the several
authors read in the lecture room, a course of extra and parallel
reading is required in each class.
Sanskrit.
The Professor of Latin will also give instruction in Sanskrit.
Text-Books.—Monier Williams' Grammar, Benfey's Lexicon, selections
from the Mahâ-Bhârata.
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