Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1868-1869 VERSION A [PAGE 11]

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DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. The course in German will extend through three years. The first year is expected to prepare students to read such German scientific books as they may need or desire to consult. The second and third year's instruction will be so conducted as to enable students to complete their mastery of the language, and give German students an opportunity to acquire a perfect knowledge of their native tongue. FIBST YEAR.—German Grammar and Reader. German Classic Reader. One exercise a week in reading German agricultural and scientific papers. SECOND YEAB.—Classic Reader, Schiller's William Tell, Goethe's Iphigenia Conversation and Composition. THIBD YEAB -History of German Language and Literature, by Vilmar. Kohlrausch's Geschichte des Deutschen Volkes. Conversation and Composition. Reading of scientific journals in the several branches. DEPARTMENT OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. The course of instruction in this department will extend through three years, and will, at every stage, include a careful attention to the subject matter of tha authors read in connection with the study of the language. A preliminary year is also provided in order to meet the present wants of students. This year is not considered a part of the regular course, and is to be dropped after 1870. Students will not be admitted to this department who are not prepared to enter at once upon the reading of Cresar. For this purpose, a satisfactory knowledge of the Latin Grammar and Reader is required. [PRELIMINARY YEAB.—Four books of Caesar's Gallic war; Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline ; Ancient Geography of Europe, and chapters 64, 65 and 66 of Liddell's Rome.] FIRT YEAR.—First Term.—Three orations of Cicero against Catiline. Latin Prose Composition begun and continued through the course. Chapter 67 to 71 inclusive of Liddell's Rome. Second Term.—Fourth oration against Catiline. Oration pro lege Manilia, and pro Archia Poeta. Political constitution of Rome. Third Term.—Selections from Virgil. Latin Prosody. SECOND YEAR.—First Term.—Selections from Livy. Chapters 28—35 and 46 of Liddell's Rome. Second Term.—Livy continued. Horace begun. Chapters 38—45 Liddell's Rome. Third Tern.—Selections from Horace and Juvenal, Geography of the Countries bordering on the Mediterranean. THIRD YEAR.—First Term.—Cicero De Officiis. Lectures on the History of Roman Literature and Philosophy. Second Term.—Cicero De Oratore. Lectures on the origin and structure of the Latin language. Third Term.— Frieze's Quintilian. Lectures continued. Other authors will occasionally be substituted in place of some of the above. DEPARTMENT OF GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. This course will also occupy three years, and the instruction will resemble that in the Department of Latin.