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98 RUTGERS COLLEGE

Graduate Course

78 Problems in the History of the West

Graduate and senior course; offered as there may be demand;
credit arranged.

Seminar: general study of a limited field and the working of a
problem within it by each student.



HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Professor Scott
Mr. Graham

Major — Junior year; 83-86; senior year: 87-94.

Minors may be chosen in American and European history, con-
stitutional history of England, Roman law, history of education and
education, logic, history of philosophy, mathematics (calculus), and
English.

81 Civics

Sophomore year, first term, 2 hours; reqxiired in all courses.
Lectures on citizenship and government; quizzes and practical
exercises.

82 Cipics (continued)

Sophomore year, second term, 2 hours; required in all courses.

83 History of Civilitation

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Guizot's History of European Civilitation is used as a guidebook.
Collateral readings are assigned.

84 Elements of PoUHcal Scienu

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Fundamentals of the general subject are taught by means of a
textbook. Special attention is given to the theory and operatioa of
the fedenttive principle in our American political system.



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85 Elements of Law and Jurisprudence
Junior or senior year, first tenn, 3 hours.

Robinson's Elementary Law is used as a textbook; special topics
are assigned as subjects of study and discussion.

86 International Law

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.
Lectures; subjects assigned for special study.

87 Constitutional Law: Textbook

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Textbook: McClain's Constitutional Law in the Untied States,

Cases are assigned to individual members of the class for analysis.

88 Economics

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Taussig's Principles of Economics is used as a textbook.

89 Economics (continued)

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

90 Business Management

Jtmior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

General business principles: the finance, accounting, organiza-
tion, internal management of a business concern and the marketing of
its product. Lectures and assigned readings; practical exercises.

91 Money and Banking

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

While brief treatment is accorded the history and theory of money
and banking, the course deals chiefly with banking practioe. X^ectures
and assigned readings; practical exercises.

92 International Trade and ToHSs

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Theory, history, and present status of international trade. Tarif
policies of important commerdal aattons with special consideratioa of
the United States. Lectam» as»i RflHignf*3 reex&igs; individuail topics
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93 Constitutional Law: Cases
Senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Wambatigh's Cases on Constitutional Law together with the Reports
of the Supreme Court of the United States furnish material for analysis.
Students are required to search after the significance and scope of
each case in establishing or modifying doctrines of the fundamental
law.

94 Constitutional Law: Cases (continued)
Senior year, second term, 3 hours.



LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Professor Kirk
Major — ^Jtmioryear: 10^115; senior year: 116-121.
Minors may be chosen in history of education and education,

Greek, English and other modem la,nguages, and history.

The classical major is indicated under Greek Language and Litera»

ture.

101 iMtin Prose Literature
Freshman year, first term, 2 hours.

102 Latin Poetry

Freshman year, first term, 2 hours.

103 Latin Prose Literature (continued)
Freshman year, second term, 2 hours.

104 Latin Poetry (continued)
Freshman year, second term, 2 hours.

105 Horace

Sophomore year, first term, 2 hours.

106 Latin Literature

Sophomore year, first term, 1 hour.

107 Phny or Seneca-
Sophomore year, second term, 2 hours.



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108 Latin Literature

Sophomore year, second term, 1 hour.

109 Terence

Junior or senior year, first term, 2 hours.

110 Grammar and Composition

Junior or senior year, first term, 1 hour.

111 Lucretius

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

112 Sallust and Nepos

Junior or senior year, second term, 2 hours.

113 Grammar and Composition

Jtmior or senior year, second term, 1 hotar.

114 Cic^o

Junior or senior year, second term, 2 hours.

1 15 Life and Times of Cicero

Junior or senior year, second term, 1 hour

116 Caesar

Junior or senior year, first term, 2 hours.

117 Grammar and Composition

Jtmior or senior year, first term, 1 hour.

118 Ovid, TibuUus, Propertius

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

119 VirgU

Jtmior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

120 Tacitus

Junior or senior year, second term, 2 hours.

121 Grammar and Composition

Junior or senior year, second term, 1 hour.



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122 Roman Law

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

123 Roman Law

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.



GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Professor Bevier
Sophomore electives: 136 and 137 or 138.
Major— (not given 1919-1920)

Gassical Major— Junior year: (in Greek) 139 and 140 or 141,
and (in Latin) 109-115; senior year: (in Greek) 142 and 143, and
(in Latin) 116-121.

Minors may be chosen in Roman law, history of philosophy,
history of education, education, history of architecture, English and
other modem languages.

1 3 1 Elementary Greek

Freshman year, first term, 5 hours.

A course in elementary Greek is open to students who have ofiEered
a modem language in place of Greek at entrance. Students choosing
this course are obliged to continue with course 132 during the second
term and with courses 133 and 134 during the sophomore year.

132 Xenophon and Homer

Freshman year, second term, 5 hours.

Portions of the Anabasis and of the Iliad or the Odyssey axe read
in preparation for course 133.
Prerequisite: course 131.

133 Homer

Freshman or sophomore year, first term, 4 hours.
Selections from the Iliad or the Odyssey, Drill in Homeric forms
and syntax, and in prose composition.

134 Herodotus

Freshman or sophomore year, second term, 4 hours.
Sdections from Herodotus. Sight reading from Herodotus and
Xenophon. Drill in Ionic forms and syntax, and in prose composition.



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135 Lysias

Freshman or sophomore year, second term, 4 hours.

Selected orations of Lysias. Athenian court procedure and the
development of oratory in the fifth century before Christ. Exercises
in prose composition.

136 Plato

Sophomore or junior year, first term, 3 hours.
Selections from Plato include the Apology^ the Crito, and the
Phado, Sight reading from the Memorabilia of Xenophon.

137 Demosthenes

Sophomore or junior year, second term, 3 hours.
Demosthenes's Oration on the Crown, Sight reading from Aes-
chines.

138 A ristophanes or Euripides

Sophomore or junior year, second term, 3 hours.
Selected dramas. The development of tragedy and comedy with
illustrative readings.

139 The Historians

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Thucydides, Book VII, and other selections. Sight reading from
Herodotus and Xenophon.

140 Attic Oratory

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.
Selected orations of Antiphon, etc.

141 Lyric Poetry

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.
Selections from the lyric poets. The lyric meters.

142 The Drama

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.
Selected dramas of Aeschylus and Sophocles.

143 The Philosophic Dialogue

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.
Plato's Republic.



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HEBREW

Dr. Raven

These courses are intended especially for seniors preparing for
the ministry, although they are open to other seniors.

151 Hebrew

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Hebrew grammar. Pronimciation. Translation and analysis of
simple historical selections of the Old Testament.

152 Hebrew

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Hebrew syntax. Rapid reading of selected portions of the poetical
books of the Old Testament. Hebrew vocabulary.



ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Professor Whitman, courses 161, 167, 168, 175-180
Professor Barbour, course 162
Associate Professor Twiss, courses 161, 163-166, 171-174
Assistant Professor Hale, courses 161, 163-166, 169-172
Mr. E. F. Johnson, courses 161, 163-166, 171, 172
Major — ^Junior year: 169-172; senior year: 173-176.
Minors may be chosen in Latin, Greek, modem foreign languages,
history, history of education, education, political science, art, philos-
ophy, and psychology.

161 Essays

Freshman, sophomore, and junior years, 1 each term; senior
year, 1 first term; required of all students in the four-year courses.

During the freshman and sophomore years each student prepares
one essay during each term on a subject selected under the direction
of the department of English. In the junior year and in the first
term of the senior year, each student makes at least one written report
of not less than 1,200 words on some subject connected with his elec-
tive major, or with the technical department chosen. This, after
acceptance by the head of the department concerned, is submitted to



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the department of English to be graded as an exercise in English com-
position. In the second term of the senior year no essays are required
except the graduation thesis, which in the liberal courses is pr^)ared
under the direction of the professor in charge of the elective major,
and in the technical courses under the direction of the head of the
department.

The Librarian responds to requests for lists of books and articles
relating to the subjects assigned and students are expected to make
these exercises occasions for a widened acquaintance with literature.

162 Public Speaking

Freshman year, 1 hour a week; other years, 4 times each termt
except junior and senior years in technical courses; twice each term
for these.

Declamations from masterpieces of oratory and extempore speak-
ing on current topics and questions of vital issue are required during the
freshman year and first year of the short course, and original orations
and extempore speaking during the sophomore year and second year
of the short course. In the junior and senior years original orations
and extempore speaking are required in the arts, letters, and general
science courses; in the technical science courses extempore speaking
alone is required. These are prescribed for all students except those
taking the short courses in Agriculture and practical day-workers in
the short course in Clay-working.

163 Rhetoric and Composition
Freshman year, first term, 1 hour.

The theory of rhetorical writing, emphasizing the logical organ-
ization of a composition, and the structural principles of unity, coher-
ence, and emphasis; the fundamentals of correct and effective form;
introduction to the types of prose. The writing and criticism of
themes; conference.

164 Rhetoric and Composition (continued)
Freshman year, second term, 1 hour.

165 History of English Literature

Freshman year, first term, 2 hours in the technical sdeiice courses,
3 hours in the liberal courses.

An outline course in the history of English literature. Supple-
mentary readings, illustrating periods and types.



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166 History of English Literature (continued)

Freshman year, second term, 2 hours in the technical science
courses, 3 hours in the liberal courses.

167 English Drama

Sophomore, junior, or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

The English drama from the miracle plays to 1642. Specimens
of the pre-£lizabethan drama and of the chief dramatists from 1580 to
1640 (Shakespeare excepted) are read and discussed.

168 Shakespeare

Sophomore, junior, or senior year, second term, 3 hotirs.
A critical and appreciative study of selected plays, with especial
attention to the development of Shakespeare as a dramatic artist.

169 A merican Literature

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

The history of American literature; class and supplementary
reading, with reports. A principal theme of the course is: the English
source relations and the national independence of American literature.

170 American Literature (continued)

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

171 Composition

Sophomore year, first term, 3 hours.

The essentials of correct and vigorous writing; the attributes
of literary style; the writing of special types including technical and
industrial models; criticism and conference.

172 Composition (continued)
Sophomore year, second term, 3 hours.

173 Literary Criticism

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

The analysis and criticism of literature; social relationships,
origins and evolution; art elements, types; principles and tendencies
of criticism. Study of classical examples; supplementary readings
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174 Literary Criticism (continued)

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours*

1 75 Growth of English Fiction

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Historical development of narrative prose fiction from the medieval
period to the Victorian Age. Representative novels and short stories
are read and analyzed to illustrate the leading principles and ten-
dencies of the art of fiction.

176 Short Story Writing

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Practical course in the principles of short story writing. Psy-
chology of story writing; plot construction; point of view; dialog.
Writing of original descriptions, character -sketches, and several short
stories required.

177 English Prose of the Nineteenth Century
Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

A course of lectures, recitations, readings, and reports upon Car-
lyle, Ruskin, Arnold, and Newman.

178 English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century
Junior or senior year, second tenn, 3 hours.

A course of lectures, recitations, readings, and reports upon Words-
worth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, and Browning.

179 Old English Honor Course
Senior year, first term, 3 hours.

An elementary course in the grammar and literature of Old Eng-
lish. Cook's First Book in Old EngUsh is used as a textbook and one
of the longer poems is read entire.

180 Middle EngUsh Honor Course
Senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Selections in prose and verse from Cook's Literary Middle EngUsh
Reader, Osgood's edition of The Pearl, Langland's Piers Plowman;
readings in Chaucer.



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ROMANCE LANGUAGES

Professor Davis, courses 183-186, 189, 190, 201-204
Professor Billetdoux, courses 191-194, 205-210
Associate Professor Hauch, courses 181, 182
Assistant Professor Kimball, courses 181-184, 187, 188
Mr. Clare, courses 181-184
Italian and Spanish cannot be b^^un in the same year.
Major in French— Junior year: 183, 184 (187, 188), with 185,
186; senior year: 187, 188 (191, 192), with 189, 190.
Major in Spanish — Junior year: 207 — 210.
Minors may be chosen in Latin, English, German, Greek, educa-
tion, and Romance lang^uages.

French

In addition to the curriculum courses, students of French may
attend the lectures and conversation classes of the ''Alliance frangaise
de New Brunswick."

181 French A: Grammar

Freshman year, first term, 4 hours; sophomore or junior year,
first term, 3 hours.

B^^inners' course. Rudiments of the grammar; pronunciation,
inflection, the elementary laws of syntax and their application. Trans-
lation of simple prose and written exercises in composition. Oral drill,
with dictation and tests.

182 French A: Reading

Freshman year, second term, 4 hours; sophomore or jtmior year,
second term, 3 hours.

Translation of selections from modem prose writers, with constant
reference to morphology and idiom. (Kuhn's French Reading for
Beginners, Koren and Chapman's French Reader, Aldrich and Foster's
French Reader),

Freshmen devote one hour a week to inflection, syntax, and com-
position.

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183 French B: Reading

Freshman year, first term, 4 hours; sophomore, junior, or senior
year, first term, 3 hours.

The Romamtic School; texts of various writers from Rousseau to
Hugo, with brief presentation of the authors* lives, writings, and style.

Freshmen devote one hour a week to inflection, syntax, and com-
position.

Prerequisite: course 182 or two years of French in school.

184 French B: Reading (continued)

Freshman year, second term, 4 hours; sophomore, junior, or
senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Study of the novel, with special attention to realism. Such
authors as Balzac, Flaubert, Daudet, and Maupassant are read^

Freshmen devote one hour a week to inflection, syntax, and com-
position.

185 French B: Composition

Jtmior or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Written and oral translation of English exercises into French in
connection with systematic study of the grammar, beginning with a
review of irr^ular verbs. Dictation and written tests. Conducted
in French.

Prerequisite: one year of French in collie or two in school.

186 French B: Composition (continued)
Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.
Covers in detail the syntax of all the parts of speech.

187 French C: Reading

Freshman year, first term, 4 hours; sophomore, junior, or senior
year, first term, 3 hours.

A study of standard prose in both novel and drama, especially
the writings of Hugo, Sand, Balzac, Flaubert, and Scribe.

Freshmen devote one hour a week to inflection, syntax, and com-
position.

Prerequisite:, course 184 or three or more years of French in
school.



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188 French C: Readily (oontinued)

Freshman year, second term, 4 hoars; sophomore, junior, or
senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Further study of modem prose writers, particularly Augier,
Daudet, Loti, Dumas ^, Sardou, and Rostand.

Freshmen devote one hour a week to inflection, synttix, and com*
position.

189 French C: Composition
Senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Written and oral translation of oomiected passages of English
into French in connection with a special review of the syntax of the
verb. Dictation and written tests. Conducted in French.

Prereq ui site: course 186.

190 French C: Composition (continued)
Senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Preparation in French of brief compositions on assigned topics
of wide range, followed by corrections in dass.

191 French D: Reading

Sophomore, junior, or senior year, first term, 3 hours.

A study of the dramatic literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, particularly that of Comeille, Radne, Moli^, Voltaire,
and Beaumardhais.

Prerequisite: course 188.

192 French D: Reading (continued)

Sophomore, junior, or senior year, second term, 3 hours. -

A study of modem playwrights, with rapid reading and synopses.

Graduate Coarses

193 Classic French Literature

Graduate course, first term, 3 hours.

A critical and comparative study of the evolution of French
literature in the seventeenth century, from Malheri>e to F^elon, with
analysis of significant works of the great writers.



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194 Classic French Literature (continued)
Graduate course, second tenn, 3 hours.

Italian

201 Italian A: Grammar

Junior or senior year, first term, 3 hours. For beginners.

Pronunciation, inflection, the laws of syntax and their applica-
tion. Oral and written exercises in composition. (Phelps's Italian
Grammar).

[Omitted 1919-1920J

202 Italian A: Reading

Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.

Translation and sight reading of simple prose. Composition and
oral exercises. (Marinoni's Italian Reader, Bowen's Italian Reader,
Willdns and Altrocchi's Italian Short Stories)

Prerequisite: course 201.

[Omitted 1919-1920]

203 Italian B: Reading Honor Course
Senior year, first term, 3 hours,

A study of modem Italian literatture. Manzoni, De Amids,
Fogazzaro, D'Anntmzio, Carducci. Composition and oral practice.
Prerequisite: course 202.
[Omitted 191^1920]

204 Italian B: Reading (continued) Honor Course
Senior year, second term, 3 hours.

A study of Dante's Divina Commedia with collateral reading.
Composition and oral practice.
[Omitted 1919-1920)

Spanish

205 Spanish A: Grammar

Sophomore, junior, or senior year, first term, 3 hours. For begin-
ners.

Pronunciation, inflection, the laws of S3mtax and their appUca-
tion. Writing from dictation, oral and written exercises in composi-
tion. (Hills and Ford's First Spanish Course)



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206 Spanish A: Reading

Sophomore, junior, or senior year, second term, 3 hours.
Translation and sight reading of graded readers and short stories,
with composition and oral exercises.

Prerequisite: course 205 or one year of Spanish in school.

207 Spanish B: Reading

Sophomore, jtmior, or senior year, first term, 3 hours.
A study of modem fiction: Valera, Gald6s, Alarc6n, IbdfLez,
Pereda.

Prerequisite: course 206 or two years of Spanish in school.

208 Spanish B: Reading (continued)

Sophomore, jtmior, or senior year, second term, 3 hours.
Translation and analysis of modem dramas: Larra, Tamayo y
Baus, Ech^aray, Quintero, Gald6s, Benavente.

209 Spanish B: Composition

Junior or" senior year, first term, 3 hours.

Oral and written exercises in composition, with constant practice
in conversation.

Prerequisite: course 206 or two years of Spanish in school.
[Offered 1920-1921]

210 Spanish B: Composition (continued)
Junior or senior year, second term, 3 hours.



GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Professor Newton, courses 215, 216, 227-230, 232
Associate Professor Payson, courses 213, 214, 221-226
Associate Professor Hauch, courses 211, 212, 217-220, 231
Major — ^Junior year: 223-226; senior year: 227-230.
Minors may be chosen in European history, English, Romance
languages, education, and history of philosophy.

Courses for Freshmen
211 German A: First Year

First term, 4 hours, for students who have entered collie without
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Thorough drill in pronunciation, inflections, and elements of
sjmtax; composition; translation.

212 German A: First Year (continued)
Second term, 4 hours.

Translation and oompositioti continued; special drill in the strong
and irregular verbs.

213 German B: Third Year

First term, 4 hours, for students who have entered with two years
of German.

Rapid translation of recent German fiction; composition; con-
versation.

214 German B: Third Year (continued)
Second term, 4 hours.

Translation of selected novels and essays; composition; con-
versation.

215 German C: Fourth Year

First term, 4 hotirs, for students who have entered with three
years of German.

The German drama; literary and scientific German; topics
from German literature.

216 German C: Fourth Year (continued)
Second term, 4 hours.

A course in German history based on selections from the standard
German historians; literary and scientific German; topics from
German literature.

Courses for Sophomores and Jmuors

217 German D: First Year

Sophomore or junior year, first term, 3 hours, for students who
have had no German.

Thorough drill in elementary grammar and composition; trans-
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218 German D: First Year (continued)
Sophomore or jttnior year, second term, 3 hours.
Grammatical drill and composition continued; ra^ translation

of narrative and colloquial German.

219 German E: Second Year

Sophomore year, first term, 3 hours, for students who have taken
courses 211 and 212.

Translation of the more popular German classics.

220 German E: Second Year (continued)
Sophomore year, second term, 3 hours.

Translation of German classics continued; scientific German.

221 German F: Advanced EleOwe
Sophomore or junior year, first term, 3 hours.

Rapid translation of nineteenth century literature; composition;
conversation.

222 German F: Advanced Elective (continued)