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Caption: Course Catalog - 1887-1888
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84 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. COURSE IN SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES Required for Degree of B. L. FIRST YEAR. 1. Rhetoric or Cicero de Amicitia; French; Trigonometry. 2. American Authors or Livy; French; Conic Sections. 3. British Authors; French; Calculus, or Free-Hand 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. 2. German; Physics; Mediaeval History. 3. German; Physics or Chemistry; Modern History. FOURTH YEAR. 1. Anglo-Saxon; Mental Science; History of Civilization. 2. Early English; Logic; Constitutional History. 3. Philology, Political Economy; Geology. SCHOOL OF A N C I E N T LANGUAGES A N D 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 subservant, 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. [71 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 ancient languages shall have a clear knowledge of the history of Greek and Latin Literature, and of the principal
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