FIRST YEAR: _Latin, Greek, and the Elements of Logic_—(1) _Latin_:
Exercises in turning English into Latin and in translation from Latin;
with readings in Latin authors, chiefly Cicero. There seems also to
have been practice in Latin verse-making. (2) _Greek_: The Greek
Grammar of Clenardus; Readings in the New Testament, in the Orations
of Isocrates, and, for poetry, in Phocylides, Hesiod, and Homer; also
translation of Latin themes into Greek, and of Greek into Latin.
Passages of the Greek authors read were got by heart, and publicly
recited on Saturdays. (3) _Logic_: This was reserved till near the end
of the session, and Ramus was the author used.—There were disputations
on Saturdays, and catechisings on Sundays.
SECOND YEAR: _Recapitulation of previous studies, with Rhetoric,
Logic, and Arithmetic_—(1) _Recapitulation_: For the first month, with
a final examination in Greek. (2) _Rhetoric_: Talæus’s Rhetoric (a
short and very flimsy compend on the figures of speech, with
instructions in delivery), and portions of other manuals, such as
Cassander’s _Rhetoric_ and Aphthonius’s _Progymnasmata_ (a collection
of specimens of Greek composition to illustrate various styles); also
oratorical exercises by the students themselves. (3) _Logic_:
Perphyry’s Introduction to Aristotle’s _Organon_, and then, in the
_Organon_ itself, the Categories, the Prior Analytics, and portions of
the Topics and the Sophistics. (4) _Arithmetic_: towards the end of
the session.—Disputations and declamations on Saturdays, and
catechisings on Sundays.
THIRD YEAR: _Recapitulation of previous studies, with Hebrew Grammar,
Logic, Ethics, and Physical Science_—(1) _Recapitulation_: This went
back upon the Greek, and included examinations in Rhetoric and in
Logical Analysis. (2) _Hebrew Grammar_: taught apparently from the
beginning of the session. (3) _Logic_: The two Books of Aristotle’s
_Posterior Analytics_. (4) _Ethics_: The first, second, half of the
third, and the fourth and fifth Books of Aristotle’s _Ethics_. (5)
_Physical Science_: Aristotle’s _Acroamatics_, taught partly
textually, partly in compend, followed, at the close of the session,
by a descriptive sketch of Human Anatomy.—Disputations on prescribed
theses on Saturdays, and theological instruction on Sundays.
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