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THROOP POI, YTECHNIC INSTITl'TE 2S
(b) vVinter ;"Iorning vValk, \Varren Hastings.
III. (a) Comus, Lycidas, ::\Iilton's Sonnets, The Elegy, Eve
of St. Agnes, The Cloud, The Xightingale, The Skylark, Tintern
Abbey, Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Ode to Duty, Passing
of Arthur, Vision of Sir Launfal.
Speeches: Burke, at Bristol; \Vebster, in Reply to Hayne;
Macaulay, on Reform Bill.
(b) Alexander's Feast, The Rape of the Lock, Laodamia,
Transcript from Euripides, Silas ::\Iarner, Vicar of Wakefield, The
Bard.
JElocution
Courses of instruction in reading and public speaking are
offered. Detailed information will be given on application.
1btstOtl2
Three courses in History are offered; course III is required
of all students before graduating.
1. Eastern Nations, Greece and Rome, with special reference
to the development of the institutions, and the growth and influence
of the arts and literature of each. Text-book: Myers and Allen,
with collateral assigned reading.
II. Medieeval and Modern History. Particular attention paid
to institutional growth and social life of the people. Text-book:
Myers' Mediceval and Modern History, with reading of Emerton's
Introduction to the Middle Ages, and Seebohm's Era of the Protestant
Reformation.
III. American History and Civics. Special attention to
development of the Constitution. Text-books: Montgomery's History
of the United States and John Fiske's Civil Government in
the United States.
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1. Special attention to forms and vocabularies; translation of
the exercises from Latin into English and from English into Latin;
structure of Latin sentence and comparison with English sentencestructure.
II. Introduction to Roman Literature. The readings comprise
selections from the Viri Romee, Cornelius Nepos and Cesar,
with a generous amount of sight-reading; critical study of text,
with translation into idiomatic English; prose composition; incidental
study of history and geography throughout the year. Allen
and Greenough's Grammar. Rolfe and Dennison's Junior Latin
Book. Dodge and Tuttle's Prose Composition.
III. Cicero's Orations. Textual study, as in Ceesar, sightreading
and composition; historical allusions investigated; the system
of Roman government; powers of officers; customs and occupations
of the people; geography involved in the text is made an
incidental topic of study. Allen and Greenough's New Cicero.
IV. Vergil's }Eneicl. Structure of the poem, with the theory