SOPHOMORES.-Fall Term.-Aeschines and Demosthenes on the Crown. Lectures on the 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 Euthyphro, Apologia, Crito, Phaedo. 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.

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.

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. Number in class, twenty-five.

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. Number in class, fourteen.

SENIORS.-Greek Lyric Poetry: Buchholz's Anthology, including Pindar; Aristotle's Ethics or Poetics; Lectures on Greek Metre, Poetical Composition, the Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. This course is intended for those who have already taken Junior I. Five hours a fortnight. Number in class, eleven.

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 twelve take French, and twenty,

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. The sentences will be put upon the black board 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, Buchheim'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 (sections 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 Alliott and Boymier's Auteurs Contemporains, Moliére's Le Misanthrope, Brette's edition, Corneille's Horace, D'Harleville's Le 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.

The work of the Senior year in German will include the reading of Schiller's Wallenstein Trilogy, Lessing's Nathan der Weise, and Goethe's Faust. Each play will be studied so as to connect it with the general literary movements of its time, as well as with the personal career of its author. Lectures will be given on the personal and

literary history of every author read. An attempt will be made to appreciate the value of the most enlightened criticism to which these dramas have been subjected.

Rhetoric and English Literature.

PROFESSOR WINCHESTER; MR. True.

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 text-book, 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 study, two or three specimens of the best modern English prose, criticise and discuss them in the class, and compare them to discover the characteristic excellences and defects of each. The writings selected for such readings and criticism this year are Macaulay's Life of Johnson, Carlyle's Essay on Johnson, and Thackeray's Lectures on the English Humorists.

III. Junior Year.-The study of English Literature is optional during the Junior and Senior years. The Junior class, the present year-open, like all Junior elective classes, to Seniors as well as Juniors -contains 1 Graduate Student, 5 Seniors, 32 Juniors, and 2 Special Students. It meets on alternate days throughout the year. The work of this class may be divided into three parts.

I. It is desired, in the first place, that the student should obtain a knowledge of the main facts in the history of our literature. For this purpose, the class reads, for regular recitation, Stopford Brooke's

"Primer of English Literature. ' The lessons assigned from it are made very short, partly that there may be an opportunity, during the hour of recitation, for discussion and frequent half-hour lectures, and partly that members of the class may find time to devote to the other portions of the work described below.

2. It is desired, secondly, that the class shall during the year read critically at least two or three representative specimens of our best literature. The last recitation of each week is given to this exercise. The works selected this year are Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, and the Nonne Preestes Tale, two cantos of Spenser's Faery Queen, Shakspere's Hamlet, and selections from Pope's Satires. Members of the class are expected to inform themselves upon the history of these writings and upon the life and times of their authors, and to read them with minute care in preparation for the recitation and criticism of the class-room. Four or five lectures upon these selected authors are read by the Professor before the class.

It is hoped that this careful study of the literature itself in some of its best specimens may not only educate the taste and stimulate an interest in the highest literature, but may also cultivate that habit of thorough and critical reading needful for the appreciation of what is best in letters.

3. The third part of the work of this class is a brief course of collateral reading. Several different courses are laid out by the Professor at the beginning of the year, from which each member of the class must select one. Each course contains a few of the most representative writings of a limited period. The courses for the present year are five, as follows:

COURSE I. Marlowe's Faustus and Green's Friar Bacon; Shakspere -four plays and ten sonnets; Bacon's Essays-selections; Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas, Paradise Lost, Book I., Samson Agonistes.

COURSE II. Johnson's Lives of Milton, Dryden, Swift, Addison, Pope, and Gray; Milton's Comus and Paradise Lost, Book I.; Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel; Swift's Tale of a Tub, Journal to Stella, letters I.-XII; Addison's Spectator-25 selected papers; Pope's Rape of the Lock; Gray's Elegy.

COURSE III. Thackeray's Lectures on Swift, Addison, Steele, Prior, Gay, Pope, Sterne, and Goldsmith; Swift's Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books, Journal to Stella, letters I.-XII.; Addison's Spectator-20 selected papers, Arnold's edition; Steele's Tatler-12 selected papers, Dobson's edition; Goldsmith's Deserted Village,

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Retaliation, and Vicar of Wakefield; Leslie Stephen's Johnson, chaps. iii., iv.

COURSE IV. Leslie Stephen's Johnson, chaps. iii., iv.; Macaulay's Life of Johnson; Johnson's Rasselas and Vanity of Human Wishes; Cowper's Task, Book I.; Burke's two American Speeches, Reflections on the Revolution in France—the first half, Letter to a Noble Lord; Burns-selected poems.

COURSE V. Burns-selections; Wordsworth-selected poems in Arnold's edition; Shelley-selected poems in Stopford Brooke's edition; Keats' Hyperion, Odes, and Sonnets; Byron-one canto of Childe Harold; Lamb-selections from the essays of Elia; De Quincey's Recollections of Lamb and Wordsworth, Suspiria de Profundis; Shairp's Essay on Wordsworth.

With each of these courses is given to the student a short list of the books which he may consult with advantage for the history and criticism of the literature which he is reading. It is believed that such a brief course of reading not only cultivates a taste for what is best in letters, but also gives the student an intelligent notion of the relations of literature to the social and political history of the period in which it was produced, such as he could hardly gain from a textbook. The care with which the reading is done is tested by a series of written examinations held at stated intervals throughout the year. IV. In the Senior year an advanced class in English Literature is formed, open only to a limited number of those who have pursued in the Junior year the course just described. This class numbers this year 14 Seniors; it recites two hours a day on alternate days throughout the year. The object of the study of this class is to gain a somewhat thorough knowledge of the literature of some brief period. The period chosen for the study of the present year is that embraced between the years 1789 and 1832. A course of lectures is given the class, during the first six weeks of the term, upon the history of this period, especially in its relations to literature. Then the principal works of Burke (after 1789), Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincey, Lamb, Scott, Byron, Shelley, and Keats are divided among the members of the class for reading. They read these works, and, in turn, present before the class careful analyses and full discussions of what they have read. In this manner every member of the class either reads himself or hears discussed at length nearly every one of the most important specimens of our literature during the period studied. The regular discussions of the class-room are supplemented by a course of lectures upon the period. The class are required to