Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 40]

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Grammatical and philological analysis of Spenser, Gower, Chaucer, etc., and history of their times. 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; invention; plans, etc, T/iird Term.—Elements of criticism; methods of philological study, etc. GERMAN LANGUAGE A N D L I T E R A T U R E .

This language being of quite practical value to the farmer and artisan of this country, it will be taught thoroughly in a two years' course. The first year aims to enable a 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 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 William 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.

FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

The course of instruction in French will extend through two years, but students who desire to pursue the language only far enough to enable them to read the scientific works which they may find it necessary to consult, are expected to acquire sufficient for this in a single year. The reading room is well supplied with French Agricultural and Scientific journals, and much of the best French literature.

FIRST YEAR—First Term.—Etymology. Oral exercises in French pronunciation; written exercises in translating English into French. Second Term.—Etymology. Select readings; conversaziojii weekly. Third Term.—Syntax. Translating; French composition; conversazioni, weekly. SECOND YEAR—First Term.—Review of Grammar; classic French literature; conversazioni, weekly. Second Term.—Modern French Literature, novels, comedies, etc.; conversazioni, weekly; composition. Third Term.—Modern French Literature continued; history of French Literature; written criticisms of French authors by the class weekly. 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 YEAR.—Orations of Cicero; Latin prose composition begun and continued through the course; selections from Virgil; Latin prosody. SECOND YEAR.—Selections from Livy; Horace; Juvenal. THIRD 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 the place of some of the above.