Secondary Schools.
a) for the Gymnasia: a translation from German into Latin,
and another from Greek into German. Those pupils who
rake Hebrew, have fo give in a German translation of an
easier passage from the Old Testament with grammatical
explanations;
for the Realgymnasia: a translation from Latin into
German; according to the curriculum of each separate in-
stitution, a French or an English piece of work, and namely
either an essay or a translation from German: and the treat-
ment of a question in physics;
for the Higher Realschulen: a French and a English piece
of work, and namely in one of these two languages an essay,
in the other a translation from German; and the treatment
of a question in physics or in chemistry.
The oral examination comprises, for all the schools, Christian
religious teaching, history, mathematics, and further:
a) for the Gymnasia: Latin, Greek, and according to the cur-
riculum of each separate institution, either French or
English;
7) for the Realgymnasia: Latin, French, and English; and
physics or chemistry;
co) for the Higher Realschulen: French and English, and
physics or chemistry.
The requirements correspond with the program of instruction
of the prima. So, e. g., for
Greek, in the Gymnasium: Reading: Homer’s Iliad, Sopho-
zles (also Euripides), and Plato; besides, Thucydides, Demosthenes,
and other prose valuable on account of its subject-matter: also
appropriate specimens of Greek lyric poetry.
Grammar, revisals and recapitulations of the whole subject.
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found necessary.
Practice in unseen translation. Written translations from and
into Greek.
Latin, in the Gymnasium: Reading 5 hours: Orations of
Cicero (e. g. in Verrem IV or V, pro Plancio, pro Sestio, all with
omissions, pro Murena), selections from Cicero’s philosophical and
rhetorical writings, also from his letters; Tacitus’ Germania (at least
till Chapt. 27), also Agricola or parts of the Dialogus, selections from
the Annales (especially the sections referring to Germany) and from
the Histories: selections from Horace, learning bv heart of some of