as a rule may proceed to the Advanced Class who have satisfied the Professor as to their fitness for advanced work. The Advanced Class will meet three times a week throughout the teaching part of the three terms. In the first and second terms the lectures will deal with the literature of the eighteenth century. The prescribed books are "The English Parnassus" (Dryden to Crabbe); Palgrave's "Golden Treasury," Book II; Johnson or Shakespeare (Oxford Press); Hurd's Letters on Chivalry (Oxford Press); "Selections from Swift" (Bell and Son); Fielding's "Joseph Andrews" or Smollet's "Humphrey Clinker" or Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield ". III. HONOURS CLASS (LITERATURE). The Honours Class will meet twice a week throughout the three terms. The lectures will deal with the special period prescribed for 1917. Books: the poems of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats (Oxford or other texts); Tennyson, "Poems published in 1842" (Oxford Press); Coleridge's Literary Criticism" (Oxford Press); Shelley's "Literary and Philosophical Criticism" (Oxford Press). 66 IV. HONOURS CLASS (LANGUAGE). Lecturers-1907-11 R. S. Wallace, M. A. (a) Junior Honours. History of English Language. Books Wright's "Gothic Grammar "; Sievers-Cook's "Old English (b) Senior Honours. Language continued. Old and Middle English Literature. Books: "Beowulf"; "Andreas"; "Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight"; HUMANITY. FOUNDED IN 1505. Patron-THE CROWN. Professors-1860 (1852) Robert Maclure, LL. D., died 1868. 1868 John Black, M. A., LL.D., died 1881. 1881 James Donaldson, M.A., LL.D., demitted 1886.* 1886 Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., Litt. D., D.D., F. Br. Acad., demitted 1911. 1911 ALEXANDER SOUTER, M. A., D.Litt. 1. The Graduation Humanity Class must be attended by all who desire to take the M.A. Degree in Latin. This class is devoted to the widest and most permanent interests of Latin study. It is intended to be primarily a class of language and literature, and to place before students, in outline, the chief features and interests of Roman History and Latin Literature. The fee for the Graduation Class is £4 4s. There is a Supplementary Class in Summer, which must be attended by all who do not pass the Degree Examination in March. Books to be read in Graduation Class, Winter Session, 1915-1916: Cicero, "Select Letters," ed. Watson, Part II.; Seneca, "De Beneficiis" V., VI.; Statius, "Selections". The examination work for the M.A. Degree in Latin includes (a) Set books, (b) Unseen Translation and Composition, (c) History (both political and literary) and Geography. Candidates are required to pass in each of these three departments separately, and not merely to attain a certain aggregate of marks over all three. 2. The Advanced Latin Class meets with the Honours Class, and receives instruction with a view either to the Advanced Degree (simply) or to the Honours Degree (ultimately). All students are required to attend the Roman History Class concurrently (see below). The fee for the Advanced Class is £4 4s. Book to be read in Advanced Class, Winter Session, 1915-1916: Tertullian, "Apologeticus". The examination work for the Advanced Degree is (a) the same as that prescribed for the Ordinary Degree, (b) a special book (for 1916 Tertullian, "Apologeticus"), (c) a special period of Roman History (for 1916, the period 43 to 19 B.C.). 3. The Honours Latin Class meets five hours per fortnight throughout the Academical year. The fee for the Honours Class is £4 4s. Certain works of Latin writers are read, generally selected from those prescribed for Honours. It is intended to be combined with the Roman History Class, on which see below. *On appointment to Principalship of St. Andrews University. The Honours Latin Class is divided into two sections, Junior and Senior. In all the Latin classes regular exercises are provided in translation, composition, etc. Members of the Honours and Advanced Classes and members of the highest section of the Graduation Class usually receive tutorial instruction, over and above the ordinary teaching. ROMAN HISTORY. There will be a course of lectures on some special branch of Roman History or Antiquities given each Winter Session (1915. 16; period 43-19 B.C.). Such a course counts as a full Honours course in the School of History. LATIN-FRENCH HONOURS GROUP. (1) In the Winter and Spring Terms, 1915-1916, there will be a course of 20 Lectures on Gallic (Vulgar, Colloquial, Provincial) Latin. In connection with the lectures portions will be read of "Petroni Cena Trimalchionis," ed. Heraeus. Diehl's Vulgärla teinische Inschriften (Bonn, 1910) will also be used. Students should study in connection with the lectures Strong and Barnett's Historical Reader in Early French (Edinburgh, 1901), and Grandgent's Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Boston, 1907). (2) In the Winter, Spring, and Summer Terms of 1915-1916 there will be a course of 30 lectures on the History of Roman and Merovingian Gaul (from Julius Cæsar to Charlemagne), in which an attempt will be made to trace the growth of Roman Gaul till it becomes Early France. Fee, £4 4s. MEDIAEVAL PALAEOGRAPHY. FOUNDED IN 1903. Lecturer-1903 Alexander Souter, M.A., demitted 1903.* 1913 Professor Alexander Souter, M.A., D.Litt. In the Summer Term of 1916, if a sufficient number of students come forward, a course of twenty-five lectures (ten theoretical, fifteen practical) will be delivered on Western Mediaeval Palaeography. The course is intended especially for Honours students or graduates in the departments of Classics, English, Modern Languages, History, Theology and Law, who propose to undertake research into documents connected with their subjects. The history of handwriting in the West from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries will be sketched, and practice in reading documents will be provided. The fee is £2 2s., and names of intending students should be sent in to the Lecturer not later than 1st April, 1916. *On appointment to Yates Professorship of New Testament Greek and Exegesis in Mansfield College, Oxford. GREEK. FOUNDED IN 1505. Patron-THE CROWN. Professors-1860 (1855) William Duguid Geddes, M.A., LL.D., demitted 1886.* Died 1900. 1886 JOHN HARROWER, M.A., LL.D. WINTER CLASSES. I. The Ordinary Graduation Class meets one hour a day for five days in the week during the first two terms of the Session. The books read include portions of the work set for the Degree, and lectures are given on the relative periods of History and Literature. Written exercises in translation and composition are prescribed to the Class. II. The Advanced Greek Class meets one hour a day for five days in the week during the first two terms of the Session. III. The Honours Class meets five days in the fortnight. The more difficult Greek authors are studied, and exercises are set in composition and criticism. Arrangements are made whereby students in all the Classes receive Tutorial instruction individually so far as the Time Table permits. In teaching and in examining exercises the Professor is aided by his assistants. Work for the Greek Graduation Classes, 1915-1916: Lectures on history, literature and antiquities will be delivered in both classes. An additional class has been sanctioned for such students as have not passed a qualifying examination for entrance to the Graduation Class. Fee £4 4s. A course of about twelve lectures on the Greek Drama will be delivered during the first two terms of the Session. It will be specially adapted for students reading for Honours in Modern Literatures. Fee 10s. 6d. *On appointment to Principalship of the University by Commission dated 31st December, 1886. THE SILVER PEN. Presented to Marischal College in 1769, by the eleventh Earl of Buchan. The first Prizeman in the Junior Greek Class had his name inscribed on a Silver Medal attached to the Pen. The series of medals stopped short in 1838, but in 1901 was completed by Professor Harrower up to 1860, the year of the fusion of the Colleges. For list of winners, 1782 to 1860, see Calendar for 19061907, p. 194. The Senatus authorised the revival of the distinction for the first Prizeman of the Graduation Greek Class, beginning with the Session 1900-1901. Winner in 1915-Alan MacBain. GREEK HISTORY (Honours Course). An Honours Course on Greek History will be delivered during the Winter. Attendance in this class qualifies for Honours in History. In Session 1915-1916, the lectures will deal with the Period, 429-371 B.C. Thucydides, II.-VIII. Xenophon, "Hellenica," I.-VI. Book recommended-Hicks and Hill, Greek Historical Inscriptions". Fee £3 3s SUMMER. 1. TUTORIAL CLASS. Meets five times a week and does some of the reading prescribed for the Ordinary Degree. 2. HONOURS CLASS meets five times a week, and reads Honours Work for next year. Exercises in unseen translation, composition, etc. HEBREW AND SEMITIC LANGUAGES. FOUNDED IN 1673. Patron-THE CROWN. Professors-1860 (1847) Andrew Scott, M.A., died 1870. 1870 John Forbes, M.A., LL.D., D.D., retired 1887, died 1899. Three members of the Semitic group of languages, Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac, are included among the optional subjects for the degree of M.A. Before attendance on Graduation classes in any of the subjects can be counted, the student must pass *On appointment to Chair of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in Edinburgh University. |