Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University." We learn from this circular that there will next year be twenty-four extra courses designed especially for Bachelors of Arts; all this to be in addition to the regular elective courses, which will still be open to graduates. There will also be evening readings from Homer, the Greek Drama, Virgil, the Roman Satirists, Dante, the French Drama, Cervantes, Schiller or Goethe, Chaucer, and Shakspere, which will be given throughout the year by Professors Palmer, Goodwin, Anderson, Everett, Greenough, Norton, Bocher, Lowell, Hedge, and Child. These readings being continued through four years, with change of books or plays...
...will indicate the general nature of my system. The phrenologist founds his opinions upon the physical development of the head, the knemidologist upon the sartorial decoration of the leg. I consider my word justifiable, for the modern trouser is as nearly related to the antique greave as is the Greek diaphragm to the developed brain of the nineteenth century. Without further introduction, I will proceed to recount the result of the series of observations which has led me to believe that knemidology is capable of reduction to the form of as exact and logical a science as its loftier brother...
Success in all these courses will be helped by taking a course in Greek as well. It should be remembered that Cicero is the standard model for writing Latin; 2 or 5, therefore, may properly be combined with...
...Greek 1 and 2 are intended to give an easy familiarity with common Greek. The difference between them is as follows: In Greek 1, the work will be done by the teacher, and the ground covered be very considerable; the examinations will refer to the translation only of the books read in the class. In Greek 2, the book used will be a collection of passages from the whole range of Greek poetry; the work will be done by the pupils at sight, and the weight of the examination will be placed - two thirds on the translation of pieces read...
Classics 1 will be a series of lectures on various subjects, among which Greek Political Antiquities, the Roman Constitution, Greek Mythology, and Comparative Philology may confidently be expected...