Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 33]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. In the arrangement of the studies in this Department, the endeavor has been to present so thorough and extended a drill in grammatical and philological study, and in the authors and history of our language, as to afford the advantages, so far as may be, of the ordinary study of the Latin and Greek. The course is arranged to extend through three years, but it may be shortened according to the ability or needs of the student. Instruction will be given by text books and lectures; and constant practice in essay writing, forensics, presentation of plans and criticism, will be required. Public declamations, original or selected, and original essays, are required of every student at least twice a term, during his entire connection with the University. FIRST YEAR.—FirstkTerm.—Punctuation, Use of Capitals, Sources of the English Language, Principles of Composition and Essay Writing. Second Term,—Primary Rhetoric, Advanced Grammar, Philological and Grammatical Analysis of Modern Authors. Third Term.—Advanced Grammar, Philological and Grammatical Analysis of Milton and other authors, History of their times and contemporaries. SECOND YEAR.—First Term.—Grammatical and Philological Analysis of Shakspeare and early dramatists, History of the Times and Contemporaries of Shakspeare. Second Term.—Grammatical and Philological Analysis of Chaucer, Gouce, Spenser, etc., and history of their times, etc. Third Term.—History of English Literature, Essays and Criticisms. THIRD YEAR.—First Term.—History of English and American Literature, Essays and Criticisms. Second Term.—Rhetoric proper, Instruction, Plans, etc Third Term.—Elements of Criticism, Methods of Philological Study, etc. DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. This language being of quite practical value to the farmer and artisan in this country, it will be taught thoroughly in a two years' course. The first year aims to enable the student to read such German scientific works as his course demands. The^second year completes the course, and makes the student thoroughly acquainted with the language. FIRST; u YEAR.—First Term.—Worman's Complete German Etymology, to lesson 28. Second Term.—Etymology completed; Conversational Reader; German Echo commenced. Third Term.—Syntax; Reader completed. SECOND YEAR.—First Term.—Review of Etymology; Classic Reader. Second Term.—Review of Syntax; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Goethe's Iphigenia. Third Term.—Lectures on the German language, conversation and composition; Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans; Reading of German papers through second and third terms. Books for reference—Grimm's Deutsche Sprachlehre ; Adler's Dictionary,

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