1941-1942 Academic Catalog

DESCRIPTION OF COURSES 61 LATIN PROFESSORS SANTMYER, JURKAT, AND McCHESNEY 1-2. ELEMENTARY LATIN Grammar and exercises. Four hours a week, one year. 8-4. ELEMENTARY LATIN AND CAESAR Continuation of grammar, and four books of Caesar. Four hours a week, one year. 5.6. CICERO'S ORATIONS Four hours a week, one year. 7-8. VERGIL Reading from the Aeneid. Four hours a week, one year. Not given every year. 9. CICERO De Amicitia and De Senectute, with a review of inflected forms and syntax. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 11. LIVY The transition from the Golden to the Silver Age is studied. Selections from Book XXI are read. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 13. HORACE Copioufl selections from the Odes, Satires, and Epistles are made the basis for a study of Latin poetry. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 14. TACITUS The life of Agricola and the history of Germany. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 16. JUVENAL The origin, development, and purpose of the satire, and the morals and customs of the Romans under the Empire. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 20. OVID'S METAMORPHOSES One semester, three hours. Not given every year. 21. CICERO'S LETTERS Selections from the letters of Cicero. One semester, three hours. Not given every year. 22. PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS A course dealing with dress, food, amusements, burial customs, etc., of the Romans. Not a translation course. One semester, three hours. Not given every year. 23. . VERGIL'S AENEID Books VII-XII. One semester, three hours. Not given every year. 24. PLINY'S LETTERS Selections from the letters of Pliny the Younger, One semester, three hours. Not given every year.