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...which we were most happy to find the following sentence: "In special cases the Academic Council is authorized to remit the requisition of residence at the University to Bachelors of Arts or Science of Harvard University." We learn from this circular that there will next year be twenty-four extra courses designed especially for Bachelors of Arts; all this to be in addition to the regular elective courses, which will still be open to graduates. There will also be evening readings from Homer, the Greek Drama, Virgil, the Roman Satirists, Dante, the French Drama, Cervantes, Schiller or Goethe, Chaucer...
Course 4 is in extemporaneous translation and composition. It is almost essential, either as an elective or extra, for candidates for second year honors in classics. It is not, however, meant to exclude others. The instructor will give as much time as possible to the personal correction and explanation of the exercises. But such labor must be met by corresponding accuracy on the part of the student. Writing Latin is not a mystery that can be communicated. It is to be acquired only by practice, and constant reading of good models. This course, therefore, should only be taken in connection...
Students who have taken this course will find great advantage in repeating it during a second year as an extra, if their time will permit...
...list of "Studies for the Year 1875-76" has made its appearance. The "prescribed" work of the Junior and Sophomore Classes remains the same; while for the Freshmen an extra hour of German takes the place of one of the hours of Ethics. As regards Elective Studies in the "Ancient Languages," two courses are offered, as last year; Sanskrit I. being withdrawn for next year, but given...
...year. It is intended that, on two or three evenings of the week, the instructors in the various languages shall hold readings, like those we have at present by Professor Child and Professor Palmer, so arranged that in the course of four years every undergraduate may, without undertaking any extra work, be able to become acquainted with the writings of the best authors in each language. The Greek and Shakspere readings, which have already proved so successful, will be continued, with the addition of the Iliad and the Canterbury Tales. Selections will also be read from Greek and Latin poetry...