Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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34 ADELPHI ACADEMY. , 2. junior Year. Joynes-Meissner's Grammar Part II., Schil1er's der Neffe als Onkel, and Vililhelm Tell. Conversation and composition. Lectures in German. 3. junior Middle Year. Whitney's Grammar. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm, Paul Heyse's die Blinden. Conversation and composition. Lec- tures: Study of poems. 4. Senior Middle Year. VVhitney's Grammar and German Reader: Goetheis Iphigeniag Herman Grimm's Essays. Conversation and composi- tion.. Lectures. 55. Senior Year. Whitney's Grammar and Readerg Gustave Freitag's Soll und Haben. Reading of German periodicals. Conversation and com- position. Lectures. III. Department of Ancient Languages. A. THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. I. Sixth Grade. Oral practice. Etymologies. Lesson Book. Grada- tim. Four times weekly. 2. Seventh Grade. Viri Romae. Nepos. Four times weekly. 3. Eighth Grade. Cicero's Letters. Sallust, Ovid. Three hours weekly. 4. junior Year. Classical Course. Optional in Collegiate and Scien- tific Courses. Cicero's Orations. Caesar: Vergil. Latin at sight. Latin Composition. Lectures on Roman Life, illustrated with lantern views. Four hours weekly. 5. junior Middle Year. Classical Course. Optional in Collegiate and Scientific Courses. Curtius. Cicero's de Amicitia and de Senectute. Ver- gil. Latin at sight. Latin Composition. Lectures on Roman Archaeology, illustrated with lantern views. Four hours Weekly. 6. Senior Middle Year. Classical Coursef Optional in Collegiate Course. Livy. Horace. Pliny. Latin at sight. Latin Composition. Lec- tures on Roman Literature. Three hours weekly. 7. Senior Year. Optional in Collegiate and Classical Courses. Hor- ace. Tacitus. Plautus. Latin at sight. Latin Composition. Lectures on Roman Literature. Three hours weekly. B. 'THE GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. I. Eighth Grade. Optional, but required for admission to Classical Course. Lesson Book. Xenophon's Anabasis. .Three hours weekly. 2. junior Year. Classical Course. Lucian. Xenophon's Anabasis. Homer's Iliad. Greek at sight. Greek Composition. Lectures on Greek Life, illustrated with lantern views. Four hours Weekly. 3. junior Middle Year. Classical Course. Lysias. Xenophon's Hel- lenica. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Greek at sight. Greek Composition. Lectures in Greek Archaeology, illustrated wfth lantern views.

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ADELPH1 ACADEMY. 33 II. Department of Vlodern Languages. A. THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, The French instruction in the 4th and 5th grades is chiefly oral. Especial attention is given to the acquisition of a correct pronunciation, and of avocabulary for com- mon use. There is some reading of easy French, as in Le Livre des Enfants and Anecdotes Nouvelles. There is practice in Writing French and in committing short passages to memory. I. Sixth Grade. Reading and Conversing. Systematic drill, oral and Written, in the Elements of the language. Drill Book A. Three times weekly. 2. Eighth Grade. Drill Book B 9 rapid reading of short stories Ueune Siberienne, Chien du Capitaine, etc.jg translation from English into French, dictation exercises. Three hours weekly. I3. junior Year. Reading of French histories, with discussions and exercise in translation. Optional. Three hours weekly. 4. Junior Middle Year. French Literature, XIX. Century QManuel de Litterature Francaisejg letter-writing, discussions. Optional. Three hours weekly. 5. Senior Middle Year. French Literature, XVIII. Centuryg col- lateral reading Q French compositions. Optional. Three hours weekly. 6. Senior Year. French Literature, XVII. Century, as before. Op- tional. Three hours weekly. B. THE SPANISH LANGUAGE. It is intended to provide sufficient instruction in Spanish to enable the pupil to talk and read the language. The plan of work will have especial reference to the probable use of Spanish in trade. 1. Junior Middle Year. Conversation and easy reading. Exercise in writing 9 Study of relation between Spanish and Latin. 2. Senior Middle Year. Oral practice, with reading and Spanish composition. C. THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Prior to the 6th Grade, the Adelphi student has already had instruction in German through four years, and should be the master ofa considerable vocabulary. Next year the transition from the old to the new course of study will compel the study of German in the 6th Grade instead of French, although the latter study is called for by the schedule. The students of that grade will next year be entering upon only their second year's study of German. The modern language work of the 6th Grade next year, therefore, will be practice in German conversation, and exercisein reading and writing easy German. I. Seventh Grade. joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Part I. Von Eichen- dorf :' Ausdem Leben eines Taugenichts. Selections from l-lauff's Die Kara- vane. Conversation and simple compositions.

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ADELPHI ACADEMY. 35 4. Senior Middle Year. Classical Course. Herodotus. Plato's Apol- ogy. Pindar. Greek at sight. Greek Composition. Lectures on Greek Lit- CI'2ltllI'C. 5. Senior Year. Optional in Classical Course. Xenophon's Memor- abilia. Thucydides. Demosthenes. Greek at sight. Greek Composition. Lectures on Greek Literature. IV. Department of History and Politics. Prior to the 6th Grade, a large part of the required work in reading and in the study of English is based upon historical readers and historical sto- ries suitable for young students. Throughout the 6th and 7th Grades the History of the English Race is a required study, comprising the social and political history of the English race in all its homes. The. work is conducted topically and by reference readings so far as possible, but the scholars may use as text-books, Higginson and Channing's English History for American Readers, Montgomery's and Sheldon-Barnes's American Histories, and the Epoch Series of American History. I. Junior Year. All Courses. Political Science: Civil Government, including study of political institutions, local and national governments of the United States. John Fiske's Civil Government. Dole's American Citizen. Three hours weekly, first half-year. 2. junior Year. Collegiate Course. Political Science: Economic ques- tions with especial reference to American Political History. johnston's Ameri- can Politics. Three times weekly, second half-year. 3. junior Middle Year. Collegiate Course. Social History. Origins of historic races and of social institutions, the family, Church and State. Tylor's Anthropology. joly's Man before Metals. Morris's The Aryan Race. Three times weekly, first half-year. 4. junior Middle Year. All Courses. Ancient History. The ancien civilizations to the downfall of the Roman Empire in the West. Ducoudray's Ancient Civilizations. Myers's Ancient History. Epochs of Ancient History Series. Three times weekly, second half-year. 5. Senior Middle Year. All Courses. Mediaeval History. The His- tory and Literature of Mediaeval Europe, of the Renaissance and Reforma- tion. Myers's and Duruy's Histories. Epochs of Modern History Series. Symonds and Haeusser. Three times weekly. Optional in Classical and Scientific Courses. 6. Senior Middle Year. All Courses. Political History of England and the United States. The development of free institutions among the Eng- lish-speaking races. Green's Short History of the English People. john Fiske's Histories, and Schouler's and McMaster's Histories of the United States. Three times weekly.