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GERMAN LANGUAGE AND 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, will be taught thoroughly in a two years7 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 accquainted with the language.

FIRST YEAR.—Worman's complete German Grammar, to lesson 28. Etymology completed; Conversational Reader commenced. Syntax; Eeader completed. SECOND YEAR.—Review of Etymology, Classic Reader. Review of Syntax ; Schiller's "Jungfrau von Orleans;" Goethe's "Iphigenia." Heise's Leitfaden der Deutschen Sprache (in German), German Composition and Conversation. Lectures on the German Language and Literature. Reading of German Papers through the second and third terms of this year.

Whenever demand may arise a third year of German Ehetoric and Composition, Literature and History will be added to this course. Books of reference: Becker's Deutsche Graminatik; Grimm's Deutsche Sprache; Grimm's and Sander's Dictionaries. »

F R E N C H L A N G U A G E AND L I T E R A T U R E .

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 TEAR.—Etymology. Oral exercises in French pronunciation ; written exercises in translating English into French. Select readings. Syntax. Translating; French composition; Conversazioni, weekly. SECOND YEAR.—Review of Grammar; classic French Literature. Modern French Literature, novels comedies, etc.; composition. History of French Literature; written criticisms of the French authors by the class weekly. Conversazioni, weekly. LATIN LANGUAGE AND L I T E R A T U R E .

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. G R E E K LANGUAGE AND L I T E R A T U R E .

This course will resemble that in the Department of Latin.

FIRST YEAR.—First three books of Xenophon's Anabasis; Herodotus; Greek prose composition begun and continued throughout the course. SECOND YEAR.—Demosthenes; Thucydides; Homer's Hiad. THIRD YEAR.—Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates. Selections from Plato and the Greek poets.