Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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53 2. Reading and Analysis of Shakspeare and the early Dramatists, Spencer, Chaucer. Gower, etc.; History of their times and Contemporaries ; Chronological History of English Literature begun. 3. History of English and American Literature; Rhetoric; Elements of Criticism; Principles of Taste; Methods of Philological Study, etc. GERMAN. This language, being of practical value to the farmer and artisan, is taught thoroughly. The first year should enable the student to read German scientific works ; the second year completes the course, and should make him thoroughly acquainted with the language. Books of reference: Becker's Deutsche Grammatik; Grimm's Deutsche Sprache; Grimm's and Sander's Dictionaries. See Periodicals, page 58 1. Comfort's Complete German Course. Etymology completed; Conversational Reader commenced. Syntax; Reader completed. 2. Review of Etj^mology ; Classic Reader; Review of Syntax; Schiller's "Jungfrau von Orleans;" Goethe's "Iphigenia;" Heyse's Leitfaden der Deutschen Sprache; German Composition and Conversation ; Lectures on the German Language and Literature; Reading of German Papers. A third year of German Rhetoric and Composition, Literature and History, will be added to this course. FRENCH. The studies of the first year should enable the student to read French Scientific Works, and in the second he should become well acquainted with the language. See list of Periodicals, page 58. Instruction in Italian and Spanish will be provided. 2. Etymology; Exercises in pronunciation. Written translations, English into French; Select readings. Syntax; Translations; French composition. 1. Review of Grammar; Classic French Literature. Modern French Literature, novels, comedies, etc. Composition ; History of French Literature; Written criticisms of French authors weekly, LATIN. See page 46 for preparatory, and page 64 for collateral studies. Other authors may be substituted for those given below. 1. Cicero de Amicitia; Livy; Odes of Horace; Roman History; Archseology; Prose Composition ; Prosody; Written Translations and Comparison of parallel and equivalent idioms. 2. Horace—Satires and Ars Poet; Juvenal; Quintilian ; Roman History and Archaeology, continued. 3. Cicero de Oiiiciis; Tacitus; Origin and structure of the Language; Relation of the Latin and English Languages. GREEK. See page 46 for preparatory, and page 64 for collateral studies. Other authors may be substituted for those given below. 1. Xenophon's Anabasis—4th book ; Herodotus ; Thucydides. 2. Iliad and Demosthenes de Corona. 3. Selections from Greek Tragedy; Xenophon's Memorabilia; Plato; Greek Philosophy. HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. The studies afford a general view of the history, social organization and progress of the race. They embrace also the history of the Arts
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