Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 34]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Students will not be admitted to this Department who are not prepared to enter at once upon the reading of Cicero. FIRST YEAE.—The orations of Cicero. Latin Prose Composition begun and continued through the course. Selections from Virgil. Latin Prosody. SECOND YEAR.—Selections from Livy. Horace. Juvenal. THniD YEAR.—Cicero de Officiis. Cicero de Oratore. Lectures on the origin and structure of the Latin language. Frieze's Quintilian. Other authors will occasionally be substituted in place of some of the above. DEPARTMENT OF GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. This course will resemble that in the Department of Latin. FIRST YEAR.—First three books of Xenophon's Anabasis. Herodotus. Greek Prose begun. SECOND YEAR.—Demosthenes, Thucydides, Homer's Iliad. THIRD YEAR.—Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates. Selections from Plato and the Greek Poets. Select portions of Smith's History of Greece will be read in course, and lectures given on the Grecian History, Literature and Philosophy. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. The instruction in this Department will be given partly with text books, but chiefly by lectures, with systematic readings of specified authors, and daily examinations on the same. The study of historical geography will keep even pace with the history studied, and the chronology will be rendered as clear and distinct as possible. Written exercises on chronology, and essays in historical criticism, will constitute prominent features of the course. FIRST YEAR.—First Term.—Discovery, settlement and colonial history of the United States, with notices of other American States. American geography. Two lectures (or lessons) a week. Second Term.—History of the United States from the time of the Revolution. Two lectures (or lessons) a week. SECOND YEAR.—First Term.—Ancient History of Greece and Rome, with notices of other ancient nations. Ancient geography. Five lessons (or lectures) a week. Second Term.—Mediaeval history, with history of Christianity and ancient schools of philosophy. Scholasticism. Modern history—general European history. European geography. Five lessons (or lectures) a week. Third Term.—Political economy. THIRD YEAR.—First Term.-— Constitutional history of England, and of the United States. Two lectures a week. Second Term.—History of civilization. Analysis of historical forces and phenomena. Notices of the history of the arts and inductive sciences. Third Term.—Political philosophy. Constitutional and international law.