Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1894-1895 [PAGE 185]

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1896.—Shakspere's "A Midsummer Night's Dream;" Defoe's "History of the Plague in London;" Irving's "Tales of a Traveler;" Scott's "Woodstock;" Macaulay's "Essay on Milton;" Longfellow's "Evangeline;" and George Eliot's "Silas Marner." 1897.—Shakspere's "As You Like It;" Defoe's "History of the Plague in London;" Irving's "Tales of a Traveler;" Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales;" Longfellow's "Evangeline;" and George Eliot's "Silas Marner." B.—For Minute and Critical Study: 1896.—Shakspere's "The Merchant of Venice;" Milton's "L' Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comas," and "Lycidas;" and "Webster's "First Bunker Hill Oration." 1897.—Shakspere's "The Merchant of Venice;" Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America;" Scott's "Marmion;" and Macaulay's "Life of Samuel Johnson." 3. FRENCH.—Elements of grammar, tested by the correct translation of simple English sentences into French and by questions; reading easy French prose at sight. At least one year's work. 4. GERMAN.—Elements of grammar, tested by the correct translation of simple English sentences into German and by questions; reading easy German prose at sight. At least one year's work. 5. GREEK.—Greek Grammar (Goodwin's), Greek Prose Composition (Collar and Daniell's), and three books of Xenophon's Anabasis, or an equivalent amount from any classic Greek author. At examinatims for 1896-7 and afterwards the first three books of Homer's Iliad, except lines 494-759 of Book II. will be required. 6. LATIN.—Three books of Caesar's Commentaries, five Orations of Cicero, six books of Vergil's Aeneid, with scansion of hexameter verse and the translation of English sentences into Latin prose, based on the portions of Cassar and Cicero above named. This will necessitate a thorough knowledge of the etymology and syntax of Latin grammar. Allen and Greenough's or Harkness's Grammar and Collar's Latin Prose Composition are recommended. Real equivalents for any of the above mentioned works will be accepted. The Roman method of pronunciation is used.