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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. 97
chirography and school equipment. Open, by application, to those
intending to teach. Tuesday afternoons at or White.
2.30, Morrill 5. Profess
[18. German Seminary. Middle High German ; epic and lyric
poetry. 1900-1901. Professor White. ]
THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES.
Instruction in French during the first year is essentially the same
for all courses. It is expected that students in the technical courses,
who take but one year of French, will be enabled to read ordinary
French scientific works and the French text-books which may be
used in their courses. In the second year the object of study is more
literary than grammatical ; three hours a week are devoted to reading
advanced French and the study of the history of the literature, with
special reference to its principal schools or movements.
The instruction in the department is so planned that a student who
pursues French for three or four years has an opportunity to study
every period in French literature from the mediaeval to the modern.
Special instruction is also provided for graduates and other advanced
students in French philology, Old-French, and Provencal.
The courses in Spanish and Italian are of two years each. The
grammar is rapidly studied the first term, and reading begun in the
second. In the second year more advanced works in Spanish and
Italian are read ; in the former Cervantes and Calderon ; in the latter,
selections from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, with lectures on the
history
of the literature. Advanced instruction is given in tSpanish
and Italian philology.
The library, in which a seminary room has recently been provided,
is well furnished with materials for the special study of French litera
ture of the XVIIth century and of the Romantic School, while means
are not wanting for the of other study periods, and of the other Ro
mance literature and philology.
The following courses are offered in 1899- 1900.
Course 1, which cannot be taken to make up an entrance deficiency,
isfor beginners in French.
Course 2, which cannot be taken to make up an entrance deficiency,
is otherwise open to those who have had the equivalent of course 1.
Courses 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, are open, under the restrictions here
after noted, to those who have had at least the equivalent of courses
1, 2.
Course 1, and under certain restrictions, courses 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11,
12, 14, 16, 17, are open to Freshmen.
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