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22 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Ill the arrangement of the studies in this department, the endeavor has been to present so thorough and extended a drill in grammatical and philological study, and in the authors and history of our language, as to afford the advantages, so far as may be, of the ordinary study of Latin and Greek. The course is arranged to extend through three years, but it may be shortened according to the ability or needs of the student. Instruction will be given by text books and lectures; and constant practice in essay writing, forensics, presentation of plans and criticisms, will be' required. Public declamations, original or selected, and original essays, are required of every student at least twice a term, during his entire connection with the University. FIRST YEAR.—First Term.—Punctuation; use of capitals; sources of the English Language; principles of composition and essay writing Second Term.—Primary rhetoric; advanced grammar, philological and grammatical analysis of modern authors. Third Term.—Advanced grammar; philological and grammatical analysis of Milton and other authors; history of their times and contemporaries. SECOND YEAR.—First Term.—Grammatical and philological analysis of Shakespeare and early dramatists; history of the times and contemporaries of Shakespeare. Second Term.—Grammatical and philological analysis of Spenser. Gower, Chaucer, etc., and history of their times. Third Term.—History of English Literature, essays and criticisms. THIRD^EAR.—First Term.—History of English and American Literature, essays and criticisms. Second Term.—Rhetoric proper; invention; plans, etc. Third Term.—Elements of criticism ; methods of philological study,, etc. GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. This language being of quite practical value to the farmer and artisan of this country, it will be taught thoroughly in a two years' course. The first year aims to enable a student to read such German scientific works as his course demands. The second i year completes the course, and makes the student thoroughly acquainted with the language. FIRST YEAR.—First Term.—Worman's Complete German Etymology, to lesson 28. Second Term.—Etymology completed; Conversational Reader; German Echo commenced. Third Term.—Syntax; Reader completed. SECOND YEAR.—First Term.—Review of Etymology; Classic Reader. Second Term.—Review of Syntax; Schiller's William Tell; Goethe's Iphigenia. Third Term.—Lectures on the German Language; coversation and composition; Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans; reading of German papers through second and third terms. Books for reference—Grimm's Deutsche Spraehlehre ; Adler's Dictionary. FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. The course of instruction in French will extend through two years. but students who desire to pursue the language only far enough to enable th&m to read the scientific works which they may find it necessary t'i consult, are expected to acquire sufficient for this in a single year. The
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