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Caption: Course Catalog - 1879-1880
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College of Literature aud Science. COURSE IN SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES. 73 Required for Degree of B. L. FIRST YEAR. 1. Cicero de Amicitia, or British Authors; French; Trigonometry and Advanced Algebra and Geometry. 2. Livy, or American Authors; French; Analytical Geometry. 3. Rhetoric; French; Calculus, or Drawing-; Horace (optional, extra). SECOND YEAR, 1. English Classics; German; Physiology, or Botany. 2. English Classics; German ; Zoology, or Botany. 3. English Classics; German; Astronomy. THIRD YEAR. 1. German; Chemistry; Ancient History or Geology. 2. German; Physics or Chemistry; Mediaeval History. 3. German ; Physics; Modern History. FOURTH YEAR. 1. Anglo-Saxon; Mental Science; History of Civilization. 2. English Literature; Constitutional History; Logic. 3 ^Esthetics; Political Economy; Chemistry or Geology; Graduating Thesis or Oration. SCHOOL of ANCIENT LANGUAGES and LITERATURE. In the school of Ancient Languages and Literature, the methods of instruction, without swerving from their proper aim, to impart a sufficiently full and critical knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages and writings, will make the study of these tongues subservient, in a more than usual degree, to a critical and correct use of the English. With this view, written translations, carefully prepared, with due attention to differences, equivalences and substitution of idioms, and the comparison and discrimination of synonyms, will form part of the entire course. The study of Latin and Greek Composition will constitute a weekly exercise through the first year, and will be continued, to some extent, through the course. Essays, historical and critical, will be required from time to time, in connection with the works 10
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