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COURSES OF LECTURES.

Faculty of Arts.

[The Course of Study extends over three Sessions.]

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II. Any one of the following :— Greek, French, German, Italian.
III. English Language and Literature.

IV. Mathematics.

V. Experimental Physics.

Students may substitute Honour Courses in Latin, Greek, Mathematics, and Modern Languages for the Pass Courses in these subjects.

I. Latin.

For Students of the Second Year.

II. Greek.

III. English Language and Literature.

IV. Any one of the following languages :-French, German,
Italian.

V. Logic (Two Terms).

VI. Mathematics.

VII. Mathematical Physics.

VIII. Experimental Physics.

IX. Chemistry.

X. Natural History (including Physiology, Botany, and Zoology).
XI. Geology (including Mineralogy and Physical Geography.)

Students must attend in four of the foregoing subjects, one of which must be Latin or Mathematics.

Honour Students may take Honour for Pass Courses in any of the subjects, and a Fifth (optional) Honour Course.

I. Latin.

II. Greek.

For Students of the Third Year.

III. English, and any one of the following languages :-French,
German, Italian.

IV. Logic, and either Metaphysics, Ethics, History of Philosophy,
or Political Economy.

V. Mathematics.

VI. Mathematical Physics.
VII. Experimental Physics.
VIII. Chemistry.

IX. Physiology.

X. Zoology and Botany.

XI. Geology (including Mineralogy and Physical Geography.)

Students may attend, at their option, in any one of the following groups of subjects:—

A. (1) Latin; (2) Greek; and (3) any one other of the above subjects. B. (1) Latin; (2) Logic, Metaphysics, with IIistory of Philosophy; and (3) either Ethics or Political Economy.

C. (1) Mathematics; and (2) (3) two others of the above subjects, one of which must be one of those enumerated under heads VI. to XI.

Or Honour Lectures in any one of the following Groups:

I. Latin and Greek Languages and Literature.

II. English, and any two of the following languages :-French,
German, Italian.

*III. Logic, Metaphysics, Ethics, and History of Philosophy.
IV. Civil and Constitutional History, Political Economy, and
General Jurisprudence.

V. Mathematics and Mathematical Physics.

Or Honour Lectures in any two of the following subjects:

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Provided that no person attending Physiology shall be allowed to take Geology as his Second Subject.

[For the regulations as to University Examinations in Arts, see Appendix.]

*Any Candidate selecting Group No. III. will be at liberty to substitute for Ethics any one of the three subjects included in Group No. IV.

I.-GREEK.

Professor.

D'ARCY W. THOMPSON, M.A., D.LIT., F.R.U.I.

The books to be read in the Greek class-room for Session 1894-5 will be selected so as to prepare students for the several Examinations in the Royal University and corresponding Examinations.

Students of the First Year will read

In Pass Class-Homer, Od., and 10; Demosthenes, Olynthiacs, 1, 2, 3; Greek History from B.C. 560 to B.C. 431; Greek Literature-Lyric Poets-Life in the Homeric Age, and Outlines of the Homeric Controversy; Antiquities (Gow., chaps. x., xi., xix.).

In Honour Class, in addition to the above, Euripides, Bacchae; Herodotus, Book 8; Plato, Meno.

The Pass Class meets at 2 P.M. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; the Honour Class at 12 noon on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during three terms.

Students of the Second Year will read

In Pass Class-Sophocles, Antigone; Thucydides, Book 7; History, from 431 to 387 B.C.; Literature, History of the Drama, The Historians; Antiquities (Gow, chaps. xii.-xv., xviii., xx., xxi.):

In Honour Class, in addition to the above, Homer, Od., 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; Sophocles, Oed. Rex and Oed. Col.; Plato, Phaedo; Literature-(Abbot's Pericles, Jebb's Homer, Jevons' Hist. of Greek Literature, Part 1, Book 2).

The Class meets at 11 A.M. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Students of the Third Year will read

In Pass Class-Isocrates, Panegyricus; Demosthenes, De Corona; Aeschylus, Eumenides. Special Portions of History, Literature, and Antiquities.

In Honour Class, in addition to the above, Aristotle, Poetics; Homer, Odyssey (or, instead of Homer, Odyssey, the following fourAesch., Ag. and Cho.; Aristoph., Knights and Frogs; Theocr., 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10,; Pindar, Nemean, 1-6).

The Class meets at 11 A.M. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Obs. The hours of attendance may possibly require readjustment; as, for instance, if Pass Students in the Second or Third Year should present themselves.

In all the years Students are exercised in Prose Composition. The required portions of Greek History and Antiquities are also studied.

All Students must provide themselves with annotated text-books such as are published by the leading booksellers for use in schools and colleges; with a Greek Grammar and a copy of the smaller edition of King and Cookson's "Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin."

Students will have at their disposal in the Library the larger and more expensive editions of the works that are studied in class-room. They will also there find Dictionaries, Lexicons, Dictionaries of History, Geography, Antiquities; in fact, all the requisite works for general reference. Books of general reference can only be consulted in the Library. Books not of general reference may be borrowed for homestudy.

II.-LATIN.
Professor.

PHILIP SANDFORD, M.A. DUB.

Lectures are delivered during three terms on the Language and Literature of Ancient Rome. Special portions of the History and Antiquities are studied in connection with the authors read. Latin Prose Composition, taught orally as well as by written exercises, forms an important part of each Course. Arrangements are made for the instruction in writing Latin Verse of such Students as are anxious to cultivate the art. The elements of Classical Philology and Textual Criticism are part of the work of the senior classes.

The Books read in class are chosen with a view to the requirements of Students who are preparing for Examinations in the Royal University of Ireland.

Lectures for Students of the First Year :

(a) The Pass Class meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, during three terms, at 12 noon.

Books appointed for Session 1894-5 :-Livy, Book xxxi. Horace, Satires, Book i., and Epistles, i. and ii., and Odes, Book i. Roman History, A.U.c. to 201 B.C. (Student's Rome.) Literature (Wilkins' Primer).

(b) Additional Lectures for Honour Students are delivered on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 11 A.M.

Books appointed for Session 1894-5:-Virgil- Georgics, i. and ii.
Cicero-The Second Philippic. History-From 264 to 201 B.C.

(Mommsen). Antiquities Ramsay, chaps. ii.-vi.
(Cruttwell, Book II., Part ii.)

Literature

[These Lectures include the Courses prescribed for the First Year's Examination in the Royal University, for the Sessional Examination in Q. C. G., and for the Latin portion of the Second Year's Literary Scholarship in Q. C. G.]

Lectures for Students of the Second Year :

(a) The class meets on Mondays and Wednesdays at 11 a.m.
The special books appointed for the Session 1894-5 are:-
Cicero De Oratore, ii.; Juvenal-Satires, 1, 4, 5, 14, 15;
History and Literature of the period from B.C. 43 to 117 A.D.
Antiquities.

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(b) Additional Lectures for Honour Students are delivered on Tuesdays at 12 noon, and Fridays at 11 a.m., when the following will be studied :-Plautus Captivi; Martial Books i.-iv. (Stephenson's edition); Cicero - Ad Atticum, iv. ; Tacitus — Hist. i., ii. The special Honour course in History is Merrivale, History of the Romans, chaps. 31–35, 39-41, and 44. Literature and Antiquities.

[These Lectures include the Courses prescribed for the Second Year's Examination in the Royal University, and for the Sessional in Q. C. G.]

Lectures for Students of the Third Year :

The class meets at 10 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and arrangements are made for additional Lectures for Honour Students. The subjects of Lecture during the Session 1894-5, will be:-Virgil-Eneid, vi.-ix.; Horace-Odes, i. and ii.; Tacitus-Annals, i.-iv. ; Lucretius, Books v. and vi.; Plautus -Captivi and Menaechmi; Cicero-Orator and Ad Atticum, xiii.xv.; Mommsen's History of Rome, vol. i.; Merrivale's History of the Romans, chaps. 51-68; Literature and Antiquities.

[These Lectures embrace the Courses prescribed for the Royal University B.A. Examination, and for the Sessional of the Third Year in Q. C. G.]

[Arrangements may be made with the Professor for additional Lectures if necessary.]

Students are expected to provide themselves with texts and the ordinary editions for College use in class. The larger modern editions and Books of Reference may be consulted in

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