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COLLEGE OF LITERATURE.

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Following is a detailed account of the work presented for the year 1892-3: 1. Selections from Herodotus.—Special studies in verb syntax. Ionic etymology. Greek prose. Mather. Fall term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. 2. Selections from Xenophon's Hellenica.—Studies in syntax. Greek prose. Consideration of the causes of the downfall of Athens. Manatt. Winter term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1. 3. Xenophon's Memorabilia.—Studies in syntax. the work of Socrates as a public teacher. term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1, 2. Consideration of Winans. Spring

4. Selections from the Orations of Lysias and Demosthenes.—Comparative study of the syntax of the two authors. Discussions upon the development of Greek oratory. Stevens; Tyler; Tarbell. Fall term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1, 2, 3. 5. Plato's Apology; and Selections from the Phaedo.—Studies in the rhetoric and idiom of Plato. Outline of his philosophical views, so far as touched upon in the text read. Wagner. Winter term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1, 2, 3, 4. 6. Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, and Euripides' Alcestis.—Studies in the history and characteristics of the Greek drama. Prickard; Jerram. Spring term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 7. Homer's Illiad.—Studies in the Homeric syntax. Lectures upon the civilization represented in the poems and upon the interpretative character of the two epics. Seymour, or Keep. Fall term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. Required: 1, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6. 8. Seminary.—Aristophanes' Clouds. Greek Comedy. Textual criticism. Winter term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. Required: 1, 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 9. Seminary.—Poets. Social character of lyric poetry. Comparaative study of the same. Buohholz. Spring, term, 5 hours a week. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.