Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1868-1869 VERSION B [PAGE 12]

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10 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 the 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 as early as practicable. Students will not be admitted to this department who are not prepared to enter at once upon the reading of Caesar. For this purpose, a satisfactory knowledge of the Latin Grammar and Reader is required. [PRELIMINARY YEAR.—Four books of Csesar's Gallic war; Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline ; Ancient Geography of Europe, and chapters 64, 65 and 66 of Liddell's Rome.] FIRST 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 Term.—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.— Freize's Quintillian. 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. FIRST YEAR.—Harkness' First Greek book. First three books of Xenophon's Anabasis Greek Prose begun. SECOND YEAR.—Herodotus, Demosthenes, Thucydides, Homer's Iliad. THIRD YEAR.—Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates. Selections from Plato and the Greek Poets. Select portions of Smith's History of Greece will be read in course, and lectures given on the Grecian History, Literature and Philosophy. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. The study of this department will extend through three years. The instruction will be given partly with text books, but chiefly by lectures with