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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50

X School of Greek and Comparative Philology

X School of Greek and Comparative Philology.

The subjects taught in this Department are the Greek Language and [unclear: Liters] the Geography, History, Mythology and Antiquities of Greece and [unclear: Company] Philology.

In the preparatory classes the student is thoroughly drilled in the [unclear: inflection] the language, and the forms are constantly impressed upon the memory by [unclear: which] translations from Greek into English, and from English into Greek. These [unclear: wir] exercises, generally taken from the Grammar, are continued daily for the first years. Throughout the rest of the course, translations from the best Greek [unclear: and] are regularly made by the Professor, and the students are required to renders [unclear: the] back into the original. These exercises are criticised, and returned, and full [unclear: empty] nations given of the principles involved. In this way the Syntax will be [unclear: illustre] by all the different constructions which occur in the language.

In the translation of the classic authors, a close and critical examination is of the text assigned for reading, the peculiarities of the author's style are [unclear: bre] out, and the contents of the language, as illustrated in the light of [unclear: Company] Philology, are constantly discussed.

The requirements for entrance into the Freshman class, are as follows: [unclear: Harh] First Greek book, including the translation of all the exercises from Greek into [unclear: English], and vice versa; Hadley's Grammar, used especially with reference to the [unclear: ve] four books of Nenophon's Anabasis,'Jones' Greek Prose Composition.

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First Year.

Second Semester.—Harkness' First Greek Book to Syntax.

Sub-Freshman—Second Year.

First Semester.—Xenophon's Anabasis, Hadley's Greek Grammar. Jones' Greek Prose Composition.

Second Semester.—Xenophon's Anabasis, Hadley's Greek Grammar, Jones' Greek Prose Composition, Classical Geography.

Freshman Class—Third Year.

First Semester.—Lysias, Prose Composition, Grammar, History.

Second Semester.—Herodotus, Prose Composition,"Grammar. History.

Sophomore Class—Fourth Year.

First Semester,—Homer (Iliad) Translations into Greek, Lectures on Grammar; Gladstone's Homer.

Second Semester.—Plato, Translations into Greek, Lectures on Grammar. Antiquities.

Junior Class—Fifth Year.

First Semester.—Sophocles, Translations into Greek, Lectures, Comparative Philology.

Second Semester—Thucydides, Translations into Greek. Lectures, Greek Literature.

Text-Books.

Harkness' First Greek Book; Kuehner's Elementary and Hadley's Grammars; Jones' Greek Prose Composition; Baird's Classical Manual; Goodwin's Moods and Tenses; Tozer's Classical Geography; Fyffe's History of Greece: Mahaffy's Old Greek Life; Jebb's Greek Literature; Peile's Comparative Philology; Long's Classical Atlas; Yonge's English-Greek Lexicon; Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon.

Report.

The number of students in the Department of Greek and Comparative Philology during the year 1882-3:
Junior Class 15
Sophomore Class 8
Freshman Class 12
Sub-Freshman Class 20
Preparatory Class 48
Greek Life 2
Greek Education 17
Total by Classes 112