Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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22 ADELPHI COLLEGE. 4. Elements of Middle-High German (Otis). Reading of selections from the Nibelungenlied and the Minnesingers—first half year. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, and Goethe’s Faust (selections)—second half year. Lectures (in German). Original essays and compositions. Senior Year, three hours a week. Students who wish to begin German after entering College will be assigned to classes in the usual introductory work. Department of the Greek Language and Literature. 1. Attic Prose Authors—Selections. References: Dyers Apol- ogy and Crito; Morgan’s Lysias. Freshman Year, first semester, four hours a week. 2. Homer. Later books of Iliad, selections, or Odyssey, V-VIII. References: Lawton’s Art and Humanity in Homer; Perrin’s Odyssey, V- VIII. Freshman Year, second semester, four hours a week. 3. Drama. One play each of Eschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aris- tophanes. Lectures. Sophomore Year, four hours a week. 4. Attic Prose. Thucydides, Plato, Demosthenes, selections. Refer- ences: Morris’ Thucydides, I, Towle’s Protagoras, Tarbell’s Demosthenes. Junior Year, four hours a week. 5. General History of Greek Literature, with readings from the less familiar authors. References: Jevons’ History of Greek Literature, or Jebb’s Spirit of Greek Literature. Senior Year, three hours a week. Department of the Latin Language and Literature. 1. Horace. Selected epodes and odes. Autobiographical extracts from the satires and epistles, Lectures on Augustan age and Horace’s life. References: Sellar’s Roman Poets of the Augustan age, Martin’s Horace, Macleane’s Horace. Freshman Year, Classical and Literary Courses, first semester, four hours a week. 2. Livy. Books XXI-XXII, selections, or Books I-II, selections. Freshman Year, Classical and Literary Courses, second semester, four hours a week. 3. Silver Latin. Juvenal, Pliny, Quintilian, Tacitus, selections. Soph- omore Year, Classical and Literary Courses, four hours a week. 4. Early Latin. Catullus and Lucretius, selections. Plautus and Ter- ence, one play each. References: Sellar's Latin Poets of the Republic, Merrill’s Catullus, Kelsey’s Lucretius. Junior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, four hours a week. 5. Lectures on the Life of the La'iin Language and Literature, with readings from less familiar authors and fragments of lost works. References: Cruttwell’s or Tyrrell’s Latin Literature, Merry’s Selections from Latin Poets. Senior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a week.

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ADELPHI COLLEGE. 21 guage, Brooke’s History of Early English Literature, Ten Brink’s Early English Literature, Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary. Optional, Junior and Senior Years, alternating with Course 2. 2. Middle English: From Orm to Langland. References: Morris’ Specimens of Early English, Part I; Morris’ and Skeat’s Specimens of Early English. Part II; Ten Brink’s English Literature, Vol. II. Optional, Junior and Senior Years, alternating with Course 1. Department of the French Language and Literature. 1. Seventeenth Century French Literature. Lectures: Spanish and Italian influences; rise of the French Drama; development of the French Tragedy; Comedy in France ; influence of the Church. Readings from the works of Corneille, Racine, Moliere Freshman Year, Literary Course, three hours a week. 2. Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Lectures: The Revolu- tion and Empire; the religious renaissance ; German and Italian influences; Romanticists and Classicists. Readings from the works of Mme. de Stael, V. Hugo, Dumas, Taine. Sophomore Year, Literary Course, three hours a week. 3. Literature of the Eighteenth Century. Comparative study of the literature of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Lectures: English influence; Voltaire’s destructive and constructive work ; the encyclopedists; Rousseau’s influence and theories of education ; diffusion of the philosophical spirit. Collateral Readings. Junior Year, Classical Literary Courses, three hours a week. 4. Origins of French Literature. Lectures: General view of the Sixteenth Century; comparison of the French and Italian Renaissance; the period of the Reformation; French language in the Sixteenth Century. Readings from contemporary literature: Balzac, Guizot, Daudet, Loti. Senior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a week. Students who wish to begin French after entering College will be assigned to classes in the usual introductory work. Department of German. 1. Comparative Study of Schiller and Goethe. Ballads, dramas (Goetz, Wallenstein), prose works (Dichtung und Warheit, der dreissig- jaehrige Krieg). Original essays and compositions. Freshman Year, three hours a week. 2. Historical Dramas (in conjunction with the work in history). Emilia Galotti, Kabale und Liebe, Don Carlos. Scheffel’s Trompeter von Sakkingen. Original essays and compositions. Sophomore Year, three hours a week. 3. German History and Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Lectures (in German), study of German works of reference, miscellaneous reading. Original essays and compositions. Junior Year, three hours a week.

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ADELPHI COLLEGE. 23 Spanish and Italian. Classes to acquire a practical knowledge of these languages or to study their literature can be formed as optional classes in place of any of the other modern languages in any year of the College Course. Such a class ohsuld consist of at least five students, and the choice of such an option must, as usual in such cases, receive the approval of the Faculty. Department of History and Politics. 1. Medi Eval History: The origins and development of feudal society and institutions, the political history of Central and Southern Europe to the close of the Thirty Years’ War. References: Myers’ Mediaeval History, Duruy’s History of the Middle Ages, Emerton’s Introduction to the Middle Ages and Mediaeval Europe, “Epochs of Modern History ” Series. Fresh- man Year, Classical and Literary Courses, first semester, three hours a week. 2. History of the Renaissance: A study of the social, religious and political issues in the age of the Renaissance, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries References: Bryce’s Holy Roman Empire, Milman’s Latin Christianity, Spalding’s History of the Protestant Reformation, Haeusser’s Period of the Reformation. Freshman Year, Classical and Literary Courses, second semester, three hours a week. 3. English History: A study of political and social progress. Refer- ences : Green’s Shorter History of the English People, Macaulay’s History, Lecky’s England in the Eighteenth Century, McCarthy’s History of Our Own Times. Sophomore Year, Classical and Literary Courses, first semester, three hours a week. 4. History of France, from the age of Richelieu to the French Revo- lution. The Ancient Regime and its successor. References: S. R. Gardi- ner’s Thirty Years’ War, Duruy’s History of France, Airy’s The English Restoration and Louis XIV., Morris’ The Age of Anne, Morris’ The French Revolution and First Empire, Taine’s Ancient Regime and Modern Regime, Kitehin’s History of France. Sophomore, Classical and Literary, second semester, three hours. 5. American Politics : A topical study of American history, with a comparison of political systems. References: Fiske’s Beginnings of New England, and Critical Period of American History, Schouler’s History, and Wilson’s The State, Hart’s Epoch Series, and Scribner’s American History Series. Junior Scientific, first semester, three hours a week. Senior Year Classical and Literary, first semester, four hours a week. 6. History of the Nineteenth Century: Topical studies in modern history. The age of the establishment of parliamentary government and of racial consolidation. References: The International Statesmen Series, Muller’s Political History of Recent Times, Andrews’ Historical Develop- ment of Modern Europe. Senior Year, second semester, Classical and Literary Courses, four hours a week.