tries. We give here the plan which was followed in the colleges in Upper Germany, in the beginning of the eighteenth century. It is taken from the Ratio et Via of Father Kropf, published in 1736.[1]
Lower Grammar. First Year. (First high school class.)
Latin. Grammar of Alvarez, elements, and easier rules of construction. – Reading: The easiest letters of Cicero, specially selected and separately printed. Selections from book I and II of Father Pontanus' Progymnasmata.[2]
Greek. Grammar of Father Gretser,[3] or of Father Bayer.[4] Correct reading and writing; accents and declensions.
Religion. Small Catechism of Peter Canisius,[5] part I-II. Explanation of the Latin Gospel.
History. Rudimenta historica,[6] vol. I., treating chiefly of the history of the people of Israel.
- ↑ In Herder's Bibliothek der katholischen Pädagogik, vol. X, pp 340-348.
- ↑ James Pontanus S. J., Progymnasmatum Latinitas sive dialogorum selectorum libri quattuor. Several works of this Jesuit were used in most European schools for over a century.
- ↑ James Gretser, S. J., wrote several textbooks: a larger Greek Grammar, and a Compendium: Rudimenta Linguae Graecae, both in many editions; a Latin-Greek-German and a Latin-Greek Dictionary.
- ↑ James Bayer, S. J., wrote a Short Greek Grammar, a Latin-Greek Dictionary, and a Latin-German and German-Latin Dictionary. Of the last the eleventh edition was published by Professor Mayer, Würzburg, 1865.
- ↑ On this catechism see chapter XVIII.
- ↑ This history, comprising six volumes, was written by Max Dufrène, S. J., (Landshut, Bavaria). It appeared first 1727-1730; several editions followed.
