the University itself unfettered by any religious creed. The affiliated Colleges either may or may not adopt the same regulations. Some, like Coward's and King's College, are confined to one particular class of religious views: to these I have no thought of raising objections. In the present state of public opinion there must be many who prefer them; and where that is the case, they will exist, and it is not for us to say that they ought not. But we do feel it hard that any should decry us, for pursuing the Dublin and Scotch plan; nor is there any thing of which we are ashamed in our own institution. The grounds on which it is defended have been too often brought forward to allow of my prolonging this lecture by amplifying that argument. At any rate it has the subordinate advantage of bringing about a certain friendly intercourse between those whose creeds are not in unison, and prevents a just zeal for truth from degenerating into an unkind personal feeling towards individuals. For the facilities which it gives to cooperation,-otherwise unattainable, and for the promotion of good will which may be hoped from it, I cordially prefer the system which has been here adopted: and I trust we shall not be left alone in our opinion. CLASSICS. FIRST YEAR'S CLASSES. Lectures will be given on the one Greek and the one Latin book, announced for the yearly Examination at the University of London. These will be selected from the following Authors: Homer...Six Books. Thucydides...One Book. Euripides...One Play. Herodotus...One Book. Sophocles...One Play. Xenophon...Two Books, from any of his larger works. Demosthenes...One of the longer, or three of the shorter public Orations; or two of the private Orations. Plato...Apology of Socrates and Crito. Virgil...The Eclogues, and six Books of the Æneid; or the Georgics, and the sixth Book of the Æneid. Horace... The Odes, and Ars Poetica, and either the Satires or the Epistles. Cæsar... The Civil Wars, and the Fifth and Sixth Books of the Gallic War. Cicero... The Somnium Scipionis, and two of the shorter, and one of the longer Orations. Livy...Three Books. Tacitus...The Agricola, Germania, and one Book either of the Annals or of the Histories. Larger portions from the same books will adequately occupy the attention of those who join this class. SECOND YEAR'S CLASSES. The course of reading will be selected from the Books prescribed for the Matriculation Examination with Honours, at the University of London, which are the following: Homer...The first six Books of the Iliad, and Books ix-xii. of the Odyssey. Eschylus... Prometheus. Euripides...Medea. Sophocles...Antigone. Thucydides...Book i. Herodotus...Book ii. Demosthenes... The Olynthiacs and Philippics. Plato...Apology of Socrates and Crito. Xenophon... The Memorabilia. Virgil; Horace; Sallust... The Wars with Catiline and Jugurtha. Livy...Books xxi and xxxi. Cicero...De Senectute, De Amicitia, the Orations against Catiline, Pro Milone, Pro Archiâ, and the 2nd. Philippic. Tacitus...Agricola, Germania, and the Annals, Book i. THIRD YEAR'S CLASSES. Critical reading of parts of Homer, Demosthenes, Thucydides, some dramas of the Greek Tragedians, parts of Tacitus, Virgil's Georgics, Horace's Ars Poetica and Epistles, or other books mentioned in the 2nd year's course. SPECIAL CLASS. The subjects of the Lectures cannot be precisely stated, but they will be selected from the Greek Dramatists, the Speeches of Thucydides, Plato, Polybius, and Aristotle's Ethics; from Lucretius, Terence or Juvenal, and Cicero's Letters; and will comprehend Latin and Greek Composition. MANCHESTER NEW COLLEGE. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, BY R. FINLAY, ESQ. B. A. MATHEMATICAL PROFESSOR. BEING THE SECOND OF THE SERIES OF INAUGURAL LECTURES DELIVERED BY THE SEVERAL PROFESSORS AT THE OPENING OF THE COLLEGE, IN OCTOBER, 1840. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO. STATIONERS' HALL COURT; AND J. GREEN, NEWGATE STREET. |