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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. COURSE IN SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES.

Required for Degree of B. L.

FIRST YEAR.

1. American Authors, or Cicero de Amicitia; French; Trigonometry. 2. British Authors, or Livy; French; Conic Sections. 3. Rhetoric, or Horace; French; Calculus, or Free-hand Drawing.

SECOND YEAR.

1. English Classics ; German; Physiology, or Botany. 2. English Classics ; German; Zoology, or Botany. 3. English Classics ; German : Astronomy. 1. German: Chemistry; Ancient History. 2. German: Physics ; Mediaeval History. 3. German ; Physics, or Chemistry ; Modern History. 1. Anglo-Saxon ; Mental Science; History of Civilization ; French (optional). 2. Early English : Logic ; Constitutional History; French (optional). 3. Philology: Political Economy ; Geology; French (optional).

SCHOOL O F ANCIENT LANGUAGES AND L I T E R A T U R E .

FOURTH YEAR. THIRD YEAR.

Instruction in the School of Ancient Languages and Literature, while aiming t o i m p a r t a sufficiently full and critical knowledge of the L a t i n and Greek languages and writings, makes the study of these tongues subservient, in a more t h a n usual degree, t o a critical and correct use of the English. With this view, written t r a n s l a t i o n s , carefully prepared, with due attention t o differences, equivalences, and substitutions of idioms, and the comparison and discrimination of synonyms, form a p a r t of the entire course. The study of Latin and Greek composition is continued t h r o u g h the first year, and, t o some extent, t h r o u g h the course. Essays, historical and critical, are required from time t o time, in connection with the works read, and a free use of the library is urged. I t is intended t h a t each student who completes t h e course in ancient languages shall have a clear knowledge of t h e history of Greek and L a t i n literature, and of t h e principal a u t h o r s in b o t h languages. As an aid t o the appreciation of the literature of the two peoples, Greek and E o m a n history form an i m p o r t a n t p a r t of the course, and are t a k e n up in the beginning, illustrating t h e works read. In the first term of t h e third year ancient history is t a k e n up as a separate study, and especial a t t e n t i o n is then given t o the history of Greece and Eome, and t h e nations with whom they came in contact. Classes will be formed for students who wish t o carry their classical study further t h a n the prescribed course, and every assistance wTill be given them.

COURSE IN SCHOOL OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES. REQUIRED FOR DEGREE OF B. A. FIRST YEAR.

1. Cicero de Amicitia; Iliad; Trigonometry. 2. Livy: Odyssey: Conic Sections. 3. Odes of Horace; Memorabilia: Calculus.