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DEPARTMENTS. GERMAN LANGUAGE AND L I T E R A T U R E .

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This language being of quite practical value to the farmer and artisan of this country, 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 year completes the course, and makes the student thoroughly acquainted with the language. FIRST YEAR.—Worman's Complete German Grammar, to lesson 28. Etymology completed j Conversational Header commenced. Syntax ; Reader completed. SECOND YEAR.—Review of Etymology, Classic Reader. Review of Syntax ; Schiller's " Jungfrau von Orleans ;" Goethe's " Iphigenia." Heise's Leitfaden der Dentschen Sprache (in German), German Composition and Conversation. Lectures on the German Language and Literature. Reading of German Papers through the second and third terms of this year. Whenever demand may arise, a third year of German Rhetoric and Composition, Literature and History will be added to this course. Books of reference : Becker's deutsche Grammatik ; Grimm, deutsche Sprache ; Grimm's and Sander's Dictionaries.

FRENCH LANGUAGE AND L I T E R A T U R E .

The course of instruction in French will extend through two years, but students who desire to pursue the language only far enough to enable them to read the scientific works which they may find it necessary to consult, are expected to acquire sufficient for this in a single year. The reading room is well supplied with French Agricultural and Scientific journals, and much of the best French literature. FIRST YEAR.—Etymology. Oral exercises in French pronunciation ; written exercises in translating English into French. Select readings. Syntax. Translating ; French composition ; conversazioni, weekly. SKCOND YEAR.—Review of Grammar; classic French Literature. Modern French Literature, novels, comedies, etc. ; composition. History of French Literature; written criticisms of the French authors by the class weekly. Conversazioni, weekly.

L A T I N LANGUAGE AND L I T E R A T U R E .

Students will not be admitted to this department who are not prepared to enter at once upon the reading of Cicero. FIRST YEAR.—Orations of Cicero ; Latin prose composition begun and continued through the course; selections from Virgil ; Latin prosody. SECOND YEAR.—Selections from Livy ; Horace; Juvenal. THIRD YKAR.—Cicero de Officiis ; Cicero de Oratore; lectures on the origin and structure of the Latin Language ; Frieze's Quintilian. Other authors will occasionally be substituted in the place of some of the above.