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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES

Roland Translation and comparison with the modern idiom. Study of the laws of phonetic changes. Lectures upon Old French philology.

(b) A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF SPECIAL TOPICS.—French poets of

the sixteenth century. Malherbe; his school and his influence. eloquence of the seventeenth century

Sacred

GEOLOGY

1. GEOLOGY, MAJOR COURSE.—(a) Dynamic Geology. The in-

struction given under this head is intended to familiarize the student with the forces now at work upon and within the earth's crust, modeling its reliefs, producing changes in the structure and composition of its rock masses and making deposits of minerals and ores. A series of localities is studied in which great surface changes have recently taken place, with a view to ascertaining the character, of the forces producing such changes, and the physical evidence of the action of like forces in the past. The subject is taught by lectures, and is abundantly illustrated by maps, models, charts and views. (b) Petrographic Geology. The instruction under this topic is given by lectures and laboratory work. The subjects included are the classification of rocks, the methods used in their determination, the conditions governing the formation of each species, the decompositions to which they are liable, and the products of these decompositions. Each student is supplied with a set of blowpipe tools and reagents, and a series of hand specimens covering all the common species of rocks. (c) Historical Geology. The work on this subject is substantially an introduction to the history of geology as a science, and the developmental history of the leading geological doctrines. So far as may be done with the data in hand, an attempt is also made to trace the history of each geological period. (d) Paleontology. The scheme of instruction in this subject places before the student the classification adopted for those organic forms occurring as fossils, together with the succession of the various groups that occur in the strata, with the cause, as far as known, for their appearance and disappearance. The student is required to familiarize himself with selected groups of paleozoic fossils, abundant illustrations of which are placed in his hands. The subject is presented in lectures and demonstations, each group being considered in connection with its nearest living representative. (e) Economic Geology. The final term of this course is devoted to a study of the uses man'may make of geologic materials, the conditions under which these materials occur, and the qualities which render them