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some degree of facility ia German, on topics of everyday life ; (2) a systematic study of
German grammar ; (3) a critical reading of some of the masterpieces of German litera-
ture, with collateral instruction and research in geography, history, mjrthology, biogra-
phy of the authors, etc.
XI. FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.-Pro/e«8or Benton.
French is required of all students in the modem course in the Sophomore year of
the Collegiate Department, and is an option for the other courses, as for students of
the College of Mechanic Arts.
French will be required hereafter of students in the modem course during the
second term of Junior year, and will be an elective for students in the other courses ; it
will also be an elective to students in all the courses in the third term of Junior year.
French is an elective throughout the Senior year in all the courses of all tlie colleges
of the University. Classical and scientific students who have not previously had
French can begin it in the Junior or the Senior year.
The course during the past year has been as follows : ^

SOPHOMOBBS.
Ist Term— Bocher's Otto's French Grammar and Reader.
2d Term— Bocher's course continued ; exercises in writing and speaking French.
8d Term— Bocher's French course completed ; Fleury's Histoire de France ; Scribe's
Doigts de Fee.
SENIOBS.
Ist Term— The Athalie of Racine ; The ('inna of Comeille ; The Misanthrope of
Moliere ; Alfred de Vigny's Cinq-Mars ; Pylodet's Litterature Francaise
Classique ; Lectures in French on Rabelais, Montaigne, la Pleiade, L' Hotel de
Rambouillet, Moliere, Comeille, Racine, La Rochefoucauld, Mme. de Sevigne,
Pascal, Descartes, Bossuel, Fenelon, etc., etc., — their genius and their times.
