Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 163]

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163 SCHOOL O F A N C I E N T L A N G U A G E S A N D L I T E R A T U R E . 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 the English. W i t h 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. The study of Latin and Greek composition will constitute a weekly exercise through the first year, and will be continued, to some extent, through the course. Essays, historical and critical, will be required from time to time, in connection with the works read, and a free use of the library is urged. It is intended that each student completing the course in ancient language, shall have a clear knowledge of the history of Greek and Latin literature, and of the principal authors in both languages. As an aid to the appreciation of the literature of the two peoples, Greek and Roman history will form an important part of the course, and will be taken up in the beginning of the course, illustrating the works read. In the first term of the third year ancient history is taken up as a separate study, and especial attention is then given to the history of Greece and Rome, and the nations with whom they came in contact. Classes will be formed for students who wish to carry their classical study farther than the prescribed course, and every assistance will be given them. For the studies in History, Philosophy, etc., see school of English and modern languages. For the studies in Mathematics and Natural Science, see schools of mechanical engineering and natural history.

COURSE OF SCHOOL OF A N C I E N T LANGUAGES.

Required for

Degree of JB. A.

YEAR.

FIRST

1. 2. 3.

Cicero de Amicitia and prose composition ; Iliad and prose composition; Trigonometry and Advanced Geometry. Livy and prose composition; Boise and Freeman's selections from Greek authors and prose composition; Analytical Geometry. Odes of Horace and prose composition; Memorabilia and prose composition; Calculus.

SECOND T E A R .

1. 2. 3.

Satires of Horace, Thucydides or German; Physiology. Terence; Sophocles or German; Zoology. Tacitus; Demosthenes or German; Astronomy.