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...Latin the requirements for admission to the freshman class were besides grammar and composition the whole of Virgil, of Caesar and Cicero's Select Orations, but in Greek only Felton's Greek Reader. The studies of the freshman and sophomore years were entirely prescribed. Of the junior and senior, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Physics and German, were well taught. To Philosophy considerable attention was paid, and especially to Political Philosophy and Constitutional History; Rhetoric, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and some minor subjects were taught. "Instruction" is put at $75.00 a year; total expenses...
...eighth number of the American Journal of Philology contains an article by Professor C. L. Smith on "Virgil's Instruction for Crops" and one by Professor C. H. Toy on "A in Semitic...
...following : "To be received into the freshman class, the candidate must be thoroughly acquainted with the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, including prosody; be able, properly, to construe and parse any portion of the following books, namely : Jacobs' Greek Reader, the Gospels in the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero's Select Orations, and to translate English into Latin correctly. He must be versed in ancient and modern geography; the fundamental rules of arithmetick; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion, simple and compound; single and double fellowships; alligation, medical and alternate; and algebra to the end of simple equations...
...present themselves, in Latin literature, works of a nature to be entertaining to a popular audience? Surely no devotee of Latin would acknowledge its narrowness to be of so alarming a character. Would listeners who crowd to hear Sophocles and Homer find no attractions in Lucretius and Virgil? Would those who take a rollicking delight in Aristophanes, fail to respond to Plautus...
...Cicero and Virgil...