Exercises in Roman history are held weekly throughout the year. For the present year a critical study is made of the early period as far as the capture of Rome by the Gauls. During the first part of the year Ihne's Early Rome is carefully read and discussed in connection with readings from other ancient and modern authorities. For the latter part of the year, several courses of reading, bearing on special topics of the early history, are laid out, of which each student pursues one, supplementing it from his own investigation, and finally submitting a written report to the instructor and class. A course of weekly readings in the early constitutional history of Rome is also open to those who desire it.

Exercises in Latin prose composition, consisting of the submission and criticism of connected passages previously prepared, varied by translations at sight, are held throughout the year.

In the Sophomore year the authors read at present are Plautus, for the current year the Trinummus and the Captivi; Cicero,-for the current year the De Officiis; and Juvenal,— select satires. Other authors may be introduced in the place of these, but, like these, with a view to give the student as wide an acquaintance as possible with the Latinity of different periods, differences of style, and the development of the language. The selections from these authors vary according to circumstances. Lectures on Roman Antiquities, and on the style, characteristics, and literary merits of the different authors are frequently introduced. The required time for the Sophomore year is five hours a fortnight. Each author is read for about one term.

The Latin of the Junior and Senior years is elective. The time is five hours a fortnight. The Germania and the Agricola of Tacitus, the Institutes of Quintilian, Catullus, Pliny's Letters, and Suetonius are read in the Junior year. Tacitus is read eleven weeks, completing the books. Quintilian is read thirteen weeks. Catullus and Pliny, six weeks each. The class this year numbers sixteen.

Lucretius, Seneca, the Histories of Tacitus, or March's Latin Hymns are read in the Senior year. Lucretius' first book is read the present year, and various selections from the other

books, either as assigned lessons or at sight, fourteen weeks. Seneca is read thirteen and Tacitus ten weeks. Exercises in sight reading are conducted as far as possible, especially in the elective classes. For this purpose various authors are selected. The class numbers seven.

The design of the instruction given in the department is to develop in the student a critical knowledge of the Latin language, its structure, peculiarities, idioms, and philological connection with other languages; to secure a ready and accurate habit of translation into good English; to obtain as thorough a knowledge as possible of the literary history and peculiarities of different writers, the comparative style of different periods, authors, and forms of composition, and the arts, manners, civil and military institutions, religious and domestic life of the Romans; and to make the Latin contribute greatly to the mastery and command of the English language. To this end, lectures, collateral readings, and other exercises are combined with the regular work of the recitation room.

GREEK.

PROFESSOR VAN BENSCHOTEN; MR. TRUE.

REQUIRED COURSES.

FRESHMEN.-Fall Term.-Herodotus. Special attention to Etymology.

Winter Term.-Thucydides; Syntax, with Prose Composition based on narrative portions of the author read.

Spring Term.-Homer's Odyssey; Prosody; Lectures on Greek Life, with illustrations from original sources.

Throughout the year considerable time is given to sightreading, and students are encouraged to read large amounts with as little use of lexicon and grammar as possible. In recitation, accuracy of translation and good English are required. Throughout the year Greek History is read outside the class-room, and the examinations in this subject are intended to test the ability of the student to read for information rather than for recitation.

Five hours a week. MR. TRUE.

SOPHOMORES.-Fall Term.-Aeschines and Demosthenes on the Crown. Lectures on Athenian Constitution and Politics, and the Greek Orators. The reading required includes Butcher's Demosthenes, and at least one oration of Burke and Cicero.

Winter Term.-Greek Drama: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus. Lectures, with illustrations, on the Greek Theatre and its appointments. The reading includes a primer of Greek Literature and a play of Shakspere.

Spring Term.-Plato's Phaedo and Apology. Lectures on Greek Philosophy. Rapid translation, with attention to the style and thought of the author. The reading includes introductory chapters of Grote's Plato and a translation of Plato's Republic.

During Sophomore year the cultivation of the "sense of style" and the ability to appreciate Beauty in literature is especially aimed at.

Five hours a fortnight. MR. TRUE.

ELECTIVE COURSES.

JUNIORS.-I. Xenophon's Memorabilia, Plato's Republic, Greek Comedy, Pausanias and Strabo. Lectures on Topography, Geography, and Art. Comparative Grammar. This course is intended for those who desire a wider acquaintance with Greek literature and a more technical knowledge of Grammar and the details of interpretation.

Five hours a fortnight.

II. Greek Testament and Septuagint; Greek Fathers. This course provides an introduction to the critical study of New Testament Greek. Especial attention is given to methods of interpretation and to the history of the manuscripts. Five hours a fortnight.

In the absence of Professor Van Benschoten, these Junior courses are omitted during 1884-5, but will be given during 1885-6.

SENIORS.--Greek Lyric Poetry: Buchholz's Anthology, including Pindar: Aristotle's Ethics. Lectures on Greek Metre,

Poetical Composition, the Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle.
This course is intended for those who have already taken
Junior I. The class this year numbers eight.
Five hours a fortnight. MR. TRUE.

MODERN LANGUAGES.

PROFESSOR PRENTICE.

Sophomores in the Classical Course are required to pursue one Modern Language, but allowed to choose either French or German as they prefer. The present year fifteen take French, and eighteen German. In the Latin-Scientific and Scientific Courses, French is required in the Freshman year, and German in the Sophomore year.

The work in German for Sophomore year will embrace the twenty lessons outlined in the preface of Whitney's German Grammar. Then will begin readings in Whitney's German Reader. With the readings will be assigned daily a part of the passages for translation into German of the second and third series in the supplement to the Grammar. Every sentence will be put upon the blackboard for criticism and correction. After the first examination, special attention will be given to gaining a mastery of the irregular verbs and the rules for the gender of the nouns.

The work in German for Junior year will cover Sesenheim in Hart's Goethe's Prosa, Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, Sachtleben's edition, Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm, Whitney's edition, and Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris, Carter's edition. In connection with this reading there will be systematic sight-readings from Stern's Select German Comedies. Grammatical work will be connected with the course of reading. Special attention will be paid to the sections of the grammar which treat of the construction and order of sentences and the Law of Progression of Mutes (from section 426 to 462).

The work for Sophomore year in French will embrace Part First of Otto's French Grammar. Then will begin readings in Voltaire's Louis XIV., edition of Masson and Prothero.

In

connection with the readings, parts of Harrison's French Syntax will be assigned the class for study. Various exercises based on the readings will be given in each recitation.

The work for Junior year in French will include readings from Alliot and Boymier's Auteurs Contemporains, Molière's Le Misanthrope, Brette's edition, Corneille's Horace, D'Harleville's Vieux Célibataire, the Pitt Press edition, Sainte Beuve's M. Daru, the Pitt Press edition.

There will be sight-readings from Auteurs Contemporains, the College Series of French plays, or Knapp's French Readings.

The sections of Harrison's French Syntax that treat of negation, the uses and succession of the moods, and prosody will be carefully studied in connection with the readings.

Rhetoric and English Literature.

PROFESSOR WINCHESTER; MR. MEAD.

I. Freshman Year.—During the Freshman year the object of the instruction in this department is to give the class some knowledge of the outlines of the history of our language, and to awaken some interest in its study. To this end, a course of simple lectures is given in the fall term, recounting the main facts concerning the rise and early history of the language, and these lectures are accompanied and followed by recitations from the class upon Trench's "English Past and Present." The class meets for this exercise but once a week.

II. Sophomore Year. The study assigned to the Sophomore year, in this department, is Rhetoric. The class meets on alternate days through half the year. The text-book used is A. S. Hill's Manual of Rhetoric. The study of the textbook, however, forms only a part of the work of the class. The members of the class are required to write occasional exercises illustrating and applying the principles laid down in the text-book; these principles are also applied in the public criticism of their regular essays, written once in three weeks; and, finally, they read, in connection with their rhetorical