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FRENCH 1. ELEMENTARY COURSE.—This course embraces grammatical study, pronunciation, exercises in composition, and conversation. Reading of representative works of modern authors, such as Daudet, Labiche, Jules Verne, and others. /. and II.; daily; section A, 1; section B, 3; (5 each semester). Assistant Professor PIATT. 2. NINETEENTH CENTURY.— (1) The class will read works of Merimee, George Sand, Balzac, Sandeau, Bourget, Hugo, and others. (2) Outlines of French literature. (3) Assigned readings and reports thereon. I. and II.; daily; 1; (5 each semester). Assistant

Professor FAIRFIELD.

Required: French 1 or 5. 3. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.—(1) Readings from Moliere, Corneille, Racine, Lafontaine, Boileau, de Sevigne, and others. (2) Study of French literature and civilization of the century. (3) Advanced composition. (4) Assigned reading. /. and II.; daily; 6; (z each semester). Assistant Professor FAIRFIELD. Required: French 2. 4. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.— (1) The course will consist of lectures in French, themes, and collateral reading. Reading of selected works of Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rosseau, Chenier, and Beaumarchais. (2) Assigned readings. (3) Themes in French upon subjects connected with the course. /. and II.; M., IV., F.; 3; (5 each semester). Assistant Professor FAIRFIELD. Required: French 3.

5. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL FRENCH.—Similar to course 1 for

first semester. In the second semester the class takes up the study of scientific and technical French. For this purpose a weekly scientific periodical, La Nature, published at Paris, is taken by each member, and made the basis of the class-room work. Particular attention is given to acquiring a technical vocabulary and to rapid reading. /. and II.; daily; section A, 2; section B, 7; (5 each semester). Assistant Professor PIATT.

COURSE FOR GRADUATES

101. OLD FRENCH READINGS.—Cledat, Les Auteurs Franc,ais du Moyen Age; Suchier, Aucassin et Nicolete; Gautier, La Chanson de Roland. Translation and comparison with the modern idiom. Study of the laws of phonetic changes. Lectures upon Old French philology. Assistant Professor FAIRFIELD.