Sophomore Year. FIRST TERM. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Navigation and Surveying Cicero de Officiis . Latin Prose Composition Eschines and Demosthenes on the Crown. Greek Prose Composition. History of Rome. Natural Philosophy RHETORICAL EXERCISES. out the year. Essays and Declamations through Lectures during the Second and Third Terms on Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Acoustics, Optics, and Electricity. Rhetorical Study of Demosthenes, Webster, and Jeremy Taylor. Botany Gray's School and Field Book, or Gray's Lessons and Three daily recitations are required; and, in making a selection from the studies of the Junior Year, students will observe that Mental Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry, and Geology are required studies. Lectures during the year on Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology. Milne-Edwards's Manual of Zoology, Tenney's Manual of Zoology, Agassiz and Gould's Principles of Zoology, Fresenius' Qualitative Analysis, and Elderhorst's Blow-pipe Analysis, are recommended as books for reference. RHETORICAL EXERCISES. - Themes and Forensics. Exercises in Criticism of Standard English Authors. Lectures on the Eng Latin, History, Butler's Analogy, and Hebrew, are elective studies. RHETORICAL EXERCISES. Original Declamations and Forensics during the year. Lectures on Astronomy. Worcester's Historical Atlas is used in the study of Modern History. The following books are used in the Departments of languages: Greek Lexicon, Liddell and Scott; Latin Lexicon, Andrews' Freund; Classical Dictionary, Smith; Atlas of Ancient Geography, Long or Findlay; Latin Grammar, Zumpt and Harkness; Latin Synonymes, Ramshorn; Crusius' Homeric Lexicon; Kühner's Greek Verbs; Sophocles' Greek Verbs; Manual of Roman Antiquities, Anthon; Hebrew Grammar, Conant's Gesenius; Hebrew Lexicon, Robinson's Gesenius; Hahn's Hebrew Bible. |