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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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118 UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS. ence to principles and precedents belonging equally to modern England and the United States. In the second term an historical and critical study is made of the constitution of the United States. Winter and spring terms, 5 hours a week. Professor CKAWFOBD. Required: History, 1, 2. i. Constitutional History. —For students who have not had the work in general history, a term is arranged giving a brief sketch of the principles of English government, and a study of the constitution of the United States. Winter term, 5 hours u, week. Professor CBAWFOBD. GREEK. The purpose of the instruction in this department may be stated as follows: First, to acquaint the student with the principles of the language itself, beginning with those most essential, and progressing toward those less so. A systematic carrying out of this purpose must lead to more rational results, and by an easier route, than is sometimes reached in linguistic study. Much stress is laid upon the fact that the laws of syntax are the laws of mental operation, and that a proper regard for the logical order of thought must lend help to translation. Every device at hand for impressing this fact upon the student will be persistently used. Extemporaneous translations will be required throughout the course as furnishing the most available application, under the stimulus of the class room, of the purpose enunciated. A second purpose is to employ the literature read as a basis for the consideration of those numerous problems of life and civilization which the Greeks attempted to solve. The debt of present civilization to the Greek movement is so large and so varied that abundant opportunity is afforded for a fruitful study of the growth and descent of ideas and institutions. Conversations upon the governmental, moral, educational, and esthetic ideas of the Greeks will be used to elucidate these questions, and students will be required to use the library, and the numerous photographs and other apparatus of instruction that will be at their command for further information in special work to be assigned from time to time. The two purposes are, then, to deal rationally with the language as a language, and to make this study a fruitful source of information upon questions that must concern every thoughtful person.
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