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Caption: Course Catalog - 1885
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TO University of Illinois. In the first year the student passes over a complete grammar and reader, acquiring a knowledge of the technicalities of the idiom, with a sufficient vocabulary for the use of books of reference within the course. The second year is devoted to a critical study of the languages and philological analysis, and to a course of select reading, composition, and conversation. COURSE INT SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODEKN LANGUAGES. Required for the Degree, of B. L. HBSI YEAE. 1. American Authors, or Cicero de Amicitia : "French ; Trigonometry. 2. British Author's or Livy ; Trench ; Conic Sections. S. Rhetoric ; "French ; Advanced Geometry, or Free-Hand Drawing 4 Horace (optional, extra). SECOND YEAB. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. English Classics ; German ; Physiology or Botany. English Classics ;' German ; Zoology or Botany. English Classics ; German ; Astronomy. THrBD TEAS. German ; Chemistry ; Ancient History. German ; Physics ; Mediseval History. German ; Physics or Chemistry ; Modern History. POTJBTH YEAB. Anglo-Saxon ; Mental Science ;*History of Civilization. Early English ; Logic ^Constitutional History. Philology ; Political Economy ; Geology. 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 substitutions 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 read, and a free use of the library is urged. It is intended that each student who contemplates the course in
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