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...making out of lists of electives the following example as a model: Philosophy, 2, Cartesianism. If the students are as accurate in making out their lists as this specimen, which is given them as a model, the Dean may expect to find some such choice upon the lists as German, I, Moliere; or English, I, Dante...
...next thing worthy of remark is the grave statement, on the authority of a contributor whose name is not given, that a German literature, presenting a singularly "wide field for study," existed "at a time long before .... the fanciful poetry of the Minnesingers and noble epics." Some information in regard to the immortal works of German literature prior to the Nibelungenlied
would be of interest to the learned world, and it is to be hoped that the contributor will soon afford it. This same gentleman, growing very eloquent over his subject, remarks that "one might infer, from the absence of an elective in historical German, that there was no literature worthy of study anterior to the eighteenth century"; a statement which seems to show that he supposes that the average man, whom I suppose to be designated by the word "one," is ignorant of the existence, not only of the classics of ancient and mediaeval Europe, but also of the Bible...
...FRESHMAN GERMAN, Memorial Hall...
...German 1, 3, Massachusetts...