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Lower Third Class, Thirty Hours. 



Latin. Syntax. Rules of cases from Zumpt. Exercises 

 and extemporalia. Inflections formerly learned reviewed. 

 Cornelius Nepos. Eight hours. 



Greek. Etymology, from Buttmann's grammar to 

 regular verbs, included. Translations from Greek into 

 German from Jacob's, from German into Greek from Hess's 

 exercises. Six hours. 



German. Compositions in narration and description. 

 Declamation. Two hours. 



French. Repetition of inflections, and exercises by 

 extemporalia and in writing. Translation of the fables 

 from Herrmann's reading- book, 2d course. Two hours. 



Religion. Morals, and Christian faith. Two hours. 



Geography. Physical geography. Europe and the 

 other parts of the world. Two hours. 



History. General view of ancient and modern history. 

 Two hours. 



Mathematics. Legendre's geometry, book 1. Decimals. 

 Algebra. Square and cube root. Four hours. 



Drawing. Introduction to landscape drawing. Two 

 hours. 



Upper Third Class, Thirty Hours. 



Latin. Division 1. Syntax, from Zumpt. Review of 

 the preceding course. Oral exercises in construction of 

 sentences. "Written exercises and extemporalia. Caesar 

 Bell. Gall., books 1, 2, and 7, in part. Ovid's Metamor- 

 phoses, extracts from books 7 and 8. Prosody, rules 

 from Zumpt. Ten hours. 



Greek. Division 1. Etymology, from Buttmann's gram- 

 mar. Oral and written exercises and extemporalia. 

 Jacob's reader. Six hours. 



German. Examination of exercises on historical subjects. 

 Poetical selections for declamation. Two hours. 



