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Latin 3 introduces the student to the literature of the second century of the Empire. The Agricola is the biography of a great general by a great historian. Its style is essentially different from that of any prose in the preparatory or required courses, and, generally speaking, is found harder. The Satires of Juvenal are more powerful, and perhaps less amusing, than those of Horace. In reading the Georgics, it is proposed to investigate the peculiarities and difficulties of Virgil's style more thoroughly than can be done in schools, where he often receives - most illogically - the name...
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...
...regular courses which always have been, and it is hoped always will be taught. No. 8 is exclusively the imperial, and 9 the republican authors. The first presents a thorough picture of Rome under the Emperors, from the hands of the greatest writers of that age. The second introduces the student to Lucretius, by many regarded as the greatest Latin poet, and much talked about now for the profundity and power of his philosophical speculation. Few writers are more amusing than Plautus. A restriction with reference to 9 will be noticed on the scheme of study...
...Finibus is generally allowed to be the finest specimen of philosophical Latin prose; it is as hard as any of Cicero's works except the strictly legal orations. It is proposed to read the first two books of this treatise; the first an exposition of Epicurus's ethics, the second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius - universally regarded as one of the hardest of Roman authors - is a young stoic of the time of Nero. The course will not be made intentionally difficult, but it will require close attention...
...since early in the season. Weld had made some changes, which would probably have been very useful had they had ten days to row together before the race, but as it was they caused some distrust in the crew, and it was whispered that Matthews would probably come in second, and perhaps give Holworthy a hard pull for first place, for they were the stronger crew. Holyoke had made such radical changes at the last moment that none who know the necessity of uniformity of rowing doubted but that, barring accidents, she would come in last...