1900-1901 Academic Catalog

Cedurville College. 21 OPTIONAL STUDIES. No election of studies is permitted until the student reach­ es the Senior Collegiate year. In the Senior year the student shall elect with the aid of the faculty, History, Natural Sci­ ence, French, or Hebrew. Experience of the past as well as of the present abundantly proves that the College Curric­ ulum of studies diligently pursued will produce better re­ sults than an optional course. LAT IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Special attention is given to pronunciation (the Roman method is used), syntax, mythology, history and philology. The principles of the grammar must be thoroughly mastered; with the reading of the required course there is a constant, thorough drill of parsing, analysis, comparison and compo­ sition. A graded and systematic course in prose composition is begun in the Junior Preparatory year and extends to the Freshman Collegiate year. The Latin course extends through twelve full terms, and in the last term each student in Latin will be required to prepare a thesis upon some subject as­ signed by the professor. First Year.—The first two terms aie devoted to .Tones' Latin Lessons, accompanied by the Grammar. In this time the student is expected to master the inflections, and to lay general foundations for the profitable reading of Latin. The third term’s work consists of Caesar and composition. Second Year.—The first term includes the more rapid read- ingof Caesar,and the mastery of sentence order. The second and third terms are spent on Vergil's /Eneid, with special attention to Mythology, Prosody and Syntax. Prose Compo­ sition is made a prominent, feature throughout the year. Third Year.— In the Freshman year Cicero's orations against Catiline and Horace's Odes Epodes and Satires are studied. G r e a t care has been exercised to select the best texts in these studies. The work is progressive, and the student's mind is directed to Roman History, Oratory, Myth­ ology and Poetry. Much of the time is taken up in Word An ­