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...universities is four years and they are modeled after the German universities. In 1811 Greek was introduced as an elective. The gymnasia carry the scholars about as far as the sophomore class of our better American colleges. The course in Greek and Latin during the last year is, Cicero's Tusculanian Disputations, Odes and Satires of Horace, selections from Demosthenes and Thucydides, at least two tragedies of Sophocles, and Plato's Apology and Crito. Most examinations are oral both in the gymnasia and the universities. The universities comprise four departments, the law, medicine, historical philological, and the physical, mathematical...
...treasures which the Library contains the "Codex Vaticanus," or the "Bible of the End of the Fourth or Beginning of the Fifth Century," in Greek, and containing the oldest authentic version of the Septuagint and the first Greek version of the new Testament, is perhaps the most valuable. The "Cicero de Republica," the celebrated Palimpset discov red by Cardinal Mai, under a version of St. Augustine's "Commentary on the Psalms," is considered the oldest Latin manuscript extant. The large "Hebrew Bible," in folio, from the library of the duke of Urbino, is interesting from its historical associations, the Jews...
Senior recitation in Moral Philosophy. Professor: "What is an act of will called?" Senior: "A volition, from volo, I will." Professor: "Exactly. Cicero says: 'Voluntas est, quoe quid cum ratione desiderat.' What is that?" Senior (triumphantly): "That is Latin, sir." - [Cynic...
SENIOR FORENSICS.The third Forensic will be due March 1. Subjects: 1. Does the excellence of the artist depend upon the excellence of the man? 2. Comment upon the following sentence: "Omnes legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus." (Cicero, pro Cluentio). 3. What are the grounds for supposing that the interior of the earth is in a liquid state? 4. Jefferson as a statesman. 5. Is Mr. Henry James a true delineator of American character...
...final honors in these subjects, the candidate, after completing his course and passing examinations similar to our own, must be examined (in 1883) in Greek on Sophocles' O. T. and Plato's Gorgias; and in Latin on Plautus' Rudens, Terence's Andria and one book of Cicero's De Natura Deorum. Here again the requirements appear rather low. The requirements for honors of both classes in the other subjects are similar to those in the subjects already mentioned. In the modern languages special authors are to be prepared for examination, and the history of the country is also included. There...