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Weekly essays, forensics, plans and criticisms are required. Instruction in Anglo-Saxon will be given to those who desire it. See the College of Literature and Science, page 38, and the courses of study in Languages on page 58; also, "Library" on page 18, and "Periodicals," page 51. Sources and History of the English Language; Advanced Grammar; Principles of Composition; Philological and Grammatical Analysis of Authors ; History of their times and Contemporaries. Rhetoric, Reading and Analysis of Shakespeare and the early Dramatists, Spenser, Chaucer, Gower, etc. History of English and American Literature ; Elements of Criticism; Principles of Taste; Methods of Philological Study, etc.

GERMAN.

This language, being of practical value to the farmer and artisan, is taught thoroughly. The first year should enable the student to read German scientific works; the second year completes the course, and should make him thoroughly acquainted with the language. Books of reference : Becker's Deutsche Grammatik ; Grimm's Deutsche Sprache; Grimm's and Sander's Dictionaries. See Periodicals, page 51. 1, Comfort's Complete German Course. Etymology completed; Conversational Reader commenced. Syntax ; Reader completed. 2. Review of Etymology; Classic Reader; Review of Syntax; Schiller's " Jungfrau von Orleans;" Goethe's "Iphigenia." Heyse's Leitfaden der Deutschen Sprache; German Composition and Conversation; Lectures on the German Language and Literature. Reading of German Papers. A third year of German Rhetoric and Composition, Literature and History, will be added to this course.

FRENCH.

The studies of the first year should enable the student to read French Scientific Works, and in the second he should become well acquainted with the language. See list of Periodicals, page 51. 1. Review of Grammar; Classic French Literature. Modern French Literature, novels, comedies, etc. Composition; History of French Literature; Written criticisms of French authors, weekly. 2. Etymology; Exercises in pronunciation. Written translations, English into French ; Select readings. Syntax ; Translations ; French composition.

LATIN.

See page 38 for preparatory, and page 58 for collateral studies. Other authors may be substituted for those given below. 1. Cicero d'Amicitia; Livy; Odes of Horace; Roman History; Archaeology; Prose Composition; Prosody; Written Translations and Comparison of parallel and equivalent idioms. 2. Horace—Satires and Ars Poet; Juvenal; Quintilian ; Roman History and Archaeology, continued. 3. Cicero d'Officiis; Tacitus; Origin and Structure of the Language ; Relations of the Latin and English Languages.