Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873 [PAGE 51]

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47 cal building and a press with the requisite supply of type will be procured at an early day. In the school of Ancient Languages and Literature, the methods of instruction, without swerving from their proper aim, to impart a sufficiently full and critical knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages and writings, will make the study of these tongues subservient in a more than usual degree to a critical and correct use of English. With this view written translations, carefully prepared with due attention to differences, equivalences and substitution of idioms, and the comparison and discrimination of synonyms, will form part of the entire course. In the school of English and Modern Languages the instruction in Modern Languages will, for the present, be confined to German and French, and will extend through two years of the course. In the first the student passes over a complete grammar and a reader, acquiring a knowledge of the technicalities of the idiom, and a sufficient vocabulary for the use of the books of reference within his course. The second year is devoted to a critical study of the language and philological analysis, and a course of select classic reading, composition and conversation will enter largely into the year's work. A third year in either language, it called for, will consist of a course of Rhetoric, Composition and History ot Literature, with recitations in the language studied. The library is well supplied with works illustrating the several periods of English and American Literature. It contains at present some eight thousand well selected volumes, and it is constantly growing by purchase at home and abroad. A number of valuable American and foreign periodicals are regularly in the reading room, a list of which is given in the ^Miscellany." During the summer vacation the books will be removed to the commodious library hall in the new building, which is to be occupied in September. The courses of study recommended in this College are to be found on page 64.

SPECIAL EXERCISES.

Three Vacation Journals, with notices of readings, narratives of public events, and observations on the current literature and the progress of public affairs will be required 5 also a Thesis on some philological subect at the close of the student's course.