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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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170 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. C O L L E G E O F L I T E R A T U R E AND SCIENCE. EEPORT BY EDWARD SNYDER, M. A., LANGUAGES. PROFESSOR OF MODERN DR. Regent: I have the honor respectfully to report that no changes have taken place in the department of modern languages, in plan or methods of instruction during the past two years. The instruction extends over two years of German and two of French. There are six classes, of which I teach four, viz.: two divisions of the first year's German, one of second year's German, and one of second year's French. Mr. Carl E. Eggert teaches the first year's French in two divisions. Grammar and syntax are thoroughly studied in both languages during the first and second terms of the first year; in the third, readers are used, and the grammar reviewed by means of analysis. In German, the second year's class reads "Klemm's deutsche Literatur Geschichte" during the first term; Korner's "Zryni," Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," or "Jungfrau von Orleans," Gothe's "Iphigenia auf Tauris," and Lessing's "Nathan der Weise," during the second and third terms. I n the second year of French we read Pylodets "Literature francaise contemporaine" in the first term; during second and third, Corneille's "Cid," Moliere's "Misanthrope," Racine's "Athalie," and About's "Roi des Montagues," or de Tocqueville's "Paris en Amerique," or equivalents. Translations from English into German and French are required weekly in the third term of the first year, and all through the the second year. The language taught is used in the class room by teacher and pupils for criticism, corrections, and grammatical analysis, so far as possible daring the second and third terms of the second year. Everything is done to bring the instruction up to the standard of linguistic drill aimed at in the study of the ancient languages. Of the three phases, so to speak, of language study, "reading, writing and speaking" the first, of course, receives most attention, to give the students the use of the language in the PEABODY, DEAR SIR: S. H.
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