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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

but the German script is not insisted upon. Besides the work in grammar the student should read not less than 150 pages of easy narrative or descriptive prose, giving careful attention to its translation into good idiomatic English. GERMAN.—Two years' work.—In addition to the work outlined under the one year requirement, the pupil should know the syntax of cases, uses of the subjunctive and infinitive, complex sentence structure, uses of modal auxiliaries and of participial constructions. The translation into German of about thirty-five pages of narrative prose should insure ready application of grammatical principles. As an additional reading requirement, from 250 to 300 pages, including one of Schiller's historical dramas and about 30 pages of German lyrics, should be translated. Constant practice in reading German should secure an accurate pronunciation and a feeling of the rhythm and rhetorical form of the works studied. GERMAN.—Three years' work.—The third year's study should aim to secure an easy reading knowledge of the language. Accurate and idiomatic translations into English, constant practice in sight translation and in writing from dictation should be insisted upon. Standard prose of the grade represented by Heine, Freytag, or Dahn, not less than 100 pages should be read, together with selections from classic poetry. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm and Goethe's Egmonl or Iphigenie auf Tauris are especially recommended. Additional work in prose composition, or in the writing of paraphrases of the texts read, should insure the ability to write simple German. LATIN.—One year's work, 3 credits; two years' work, 6 credits; three years' work, 9 credits.—A student coming from a school having a four years' course in Latin, the full equivalent of the work described on p. 39, will be given 3, 6, and 9 credits, respectively, for one, two, and three years of such course. A student coming from a school having a three years' course in Latin comprising in addition to the usual grammar study and prose composition, the reading of not less in amount than three books of Caesar, three orations of Cicero, and two books of Vergil with scansion, or equivalents, shall also be given 3, 6, and 9 credits, respectively, for one, two, and three years of such course. ZOOLOGY.—Field, laboratory and text-book work to the amount of a half year in the high school. Colton's Practical Zoology, the zoological part of Huxley and Martin's Practical Biology, or of Parker's Elementary Biology will satisfy the laboratory require-