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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886
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171 tests the pupil's mastery of the lesson,—be it essay, or oration, or poem,—and measures and cultivates his power of telling what he knows. It must be added that numerous lectures, generally brief, are given to the classes upon topics related to the work in hand. Mention must be made of the excellent work that has been done, this year as in former years, by the teachers of English composition in the preparatory department. The work has been thorough, and the value of the training has been apparent in the later studies of the pupils in this school. The year now closing has been marked by diligence, attention, earnestness, and corresponding scholarship. The field of English literature is a world. It is, after all, but a few sheaves that a student can gather in his brief college course. It is to be hoped, however, that his work will be found to have improved his taste, and to have begotten and nourished in him such a hearty love of the best reading as shall ensure him constantly increasing stores of mental wealth; and that even here, indeed, he has attained some degree of that culture which t/iiows itself in widened sympathy, in breadth of thought and in ease of expression. Respectfully submitted, J, C. PlCK&RD, Professor Eng. Lang, and Lit, HISTORY AND ANCIENT LANGUAGES. PROFESSOR J^MES I). CRAWFCRD, M. DR. A. Regent: The course of special historical study covers five terms, three of the junior year and two of the senior. In the first term the ancient history of the East is taken up, including Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Media and Persia, and afterward Greece and Rome are studied. In a single term, of course, only an outline of the history is possible, and the same may be said of each of the three terms of the junior year; yet as far as possible attention is given to manners, customs, government and religion. Special text-books are used, but subjects and eras are studied rather than any particular book, and constant reference is made to the library. I have never yet given out a lesson to be learned by heart in the words of any author, and very few lessons, are given that do not require reading in the library. I consider the habit of looking up topics in various authors as valuable as the information thus gained. In the second term we study the history of mediaeval Europe from the fall of the Western Empire to the taking of Constantinople. PEABODY, DEAR SIR: S. H.
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