Caption: Course Catalog - 1874-1875
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Departments. 4? 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, Appendix, and the course of study in Languages, the "Library," and "Periodicals," also in Appendix. 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. MODERN LANGUACE AND LITERATURE. Instruction in this department is given in the French and German languages. Two years are devoted to each, the first enabling the student to read scientific works, the second completing the course. GERMAN. 1. Otto's German Grammar—Otto's Reader. 2. Whitney's Classic Reader—Reviews of Grammar (in German ) Composition—German Classics selected. FRENCH. 1. Otto's French Grammar—Otto's French Reader. 2. Classic Reader—-Review of Grammar, (Chapsal and Noel, in French ) Composition—Pylodet Literature Contemporaine. LATIN. See Appendix for preparatory, and 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 Poetica; 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. GREEK. See page 40 for preparatory, and appendix for collateral studies Other authors may be substituted for those below given. 1. Xenophon's Anabasis—4th book; Herodotus; Thucydides. 2. Illiad and Demosthenes de Corona. 3. Selections from Greek Tragedy; Xenophon's Memorabilia; Plato; Greek Philosophy. HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. The studies afford a general view of the history, social organization and progress of the race. They embrace also the history of the Arts and Sciences, and of Civilization, the principles of civil polity and law, the philosophy of history, and the principles of political economy and constitutional law. The instruction is given chiefly by lectures
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