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Rh COURSE IN LATIN.

FIRST YEAR :—First Latin Book—Collar and Daniell. Caesar, Bk. I. commenced. Allen and Greenough's Grammar. SECOND YEAR : —Caesar, Bk. I, completed; Bks. II, III and IV. Nepos—Eight Lives. Prose Composition—Daniell. Post's "Latin at Sight"—selected passages. THIRD YEAR :--Virgil, six books. Prosody. Caesar, Bk. VII—Sight reading. FOURTH YEAR:—Cicero, six Orations including the Manilian Law. Horace— Five short odes. (Importance of sight reading insisted upon from the first.)

COURSE IN GREEK.

FIRST YEAR: Hadley's Grammar. Boise's Lessons. SECOND YEAR: —Xenophon—Analysis, Bks. I, II and III. THIRD YEAR:—Homer— Iliad, Bks. I, II, and III. Arnold's Prose Composition —Spencer.

COURSE IN FRENCH.

FIRST YEAR: —Whitney's Grammar— part I. Bercy, La Langue Francaise—part I. Six Fables-La Fontaine. Whitney's Grammar—part II. —La Belle Nivernaise—Daudel. Un Philosophe sous les Toits—Souvestre. Le Bourgeoise Gentilhomme—Moliere. A few of Victor Hugo's short poems memorized. (French is the language of the class-room.)

COURSE IN GERMAN.

FIRST YEAR:—Grammar—Joynes—Meissner. Conversation— Methode Berlitz, erstes Buch. Reading—L'Arrabbiata, Heyse. Immensee—Storm. Der Fluch der Schonheit Richt. * Poetry—Die Schonsten Deutschen Lieder—Wenckebach. * Memorized Selections. ADVANCED COURSE — Harris' Prose Composition, based on progressive grammar studies.COURSE —  Reading —William Tell—Schiller. Minna von Barnhelm—Lessing. Das Haidedorf—Stifter. Die Harzreise—Heine. Aus dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen—Freytag. Dichtung and Wahrheit (selections). Poetry—That of the first year continued. * Conversation—Methode Berlitz, queites Buch.

PRIEPARATORY BRANCHES— Arithmetic, Stoddard's Intellectual Arithmetic. M. R. Powers' Practical Bookkeeping. United States History. Monteith's Comprehensive Geography. Reed and Kellogg's Higher Lessons in English. Green's Grammar. Green's English Grammar.


 * German is the language of the class-room.

LIST OF TEXT BOOKS USED.

NATURAL SCIENCE - Dunglison's School Physiology. Orton's Comparative Zoology (structural and systematic). Gray's School and Field Book of Botany. Baker's Natural Philosophy. Youman's Class Book of Chemistry. Dana's New Text Book of Geology. Sharpless and Philips' Astronomy.

MATHEMATICS --Olney's Complete Algebra. Wentworth's New Plane and Solid Geometry. Wentworth's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, with tables.

ENGLISH— Genung's Outline of Rhetoric. Reed, Kellogg & Greene—New Word Analysis. Pancoast's Representative English Liter-ature. Masterpieces of American Literature—(Houghton and Mifflin.)

HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, ETC.

Myers General History. Haven's Mental Philosophy. Hyde's Practical Ethics. Fisher's Manual of Christian Evidences. Gregory's Political Economy. Fiske's Civil Government in the United States; Goodyear's History of Art.

For text-books used in Latin and German, see courses in these languages above.

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