strong contrast to the dullness of schools in which they are taught mechanically. The same principles are carried into the upper classes, and are transplanted into the schools by the young teachers, who act here as assistants. The examination of the second school in Bible history, with its connected geography and grammar lessons; in composition, with special reference to orthography and to the hand-writing; and the music lesson, at all of which the director was so kind as to enable me to be present, were highly creditable. There are three classes in each of these schools, and the pupils of the Normal Seminary practice as assistant teachers in them at certain periods; the director also gives lessons, which the pupils of the seminary repeat in his presence. In the highest, or secondary school, the elementary courses are extended, and mathematics and French are added. The pupils of the preparatory department of the seminary spend two years in teaching in the two model schools, and in receiving instruction in the "secondary school" under the special charge of the director of the seminary. This establishment has furnished, during three years of full activity, two hundred teachers to the cantonal primary schools. These young teachers replace the older ones, who are found by the courses of repetition not able to come up to the present state of instruction, and who receive a retiring pension. The schools must thus be rapidly regenerated throughout the canton, and the education of the people raised to the standard of their wants as republicans. UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH. PROGRAMME FOR 1866-67. I. FACULTY OF THEOLOGY. 42 COURSES OF LECTURES A YEAR, BY 11 PROFESSORS. INTRODUCTION to the study of theology; do. to the study of the Old Testament; Interpretation of the Psalms; Theology of the Old Testament; Introduction to the New Testament; Practical exercises on the Old Testament; Theology of the New Testament; Interpretation of the Book of Job; do. Prophet Isaiah; do. Minor Prophets; do. Prophet Zachariah; Elucidation of some of the most difficult texts of the Old Testament; Hebrew archæology; Geography and history of the Bible; History of the Canon of the New Testament; Interpretation of Jesus' discourses according to Matthew; Interpretation of the Gospel according to St. John; Synopsis of the four Gospels; Interpretation of the Acts of the Apostles; do. Epistle to the Romans; do. Epistle to the Galatians; do. to the Philippians and Philemon, with practical exercises; do. Timothy and Titus' Epistles; Interpretation of the seven Catholic Epistles on Jesus' doctrine; Conversation on several points of the New Testament; Exegesis on the Fathers of the Christian Church; Elements of dogmatics; History of dogmatics (2 courses;) Christian dogmatics; Practical exercises in dogmatics; Christian morals: Symbolics; Theory of church government; Catechetics; Practical exercises in catechetics; Practical exercises in homiletics; Liturgics; History of the Church (3 courses); Practical exercises on the same subject, embracing various periods, (3 courses;) History of Protestant theology (2 courses.) II. FACULTY OF JURISPRUDENCE. JURIDICAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMICAL SCIENCES. 49 COURSES OF LECTURES A YEAR, BY 11 PROFESSORS. Philosophy of jurisprudence, or law of nature; History of the Roman civil procedure; Introduction to the study of law (2 courses;) History and institutes of the Roman law (2 courses ;) Institutes of Gajus; Pandects; Contracts of the Roman law; Law of inheritance after the Roman law; Law of property: Law of buildings; Practical exercises in civil law (2 courses); Introduction to the study of law; International law; Common law among nations of German origin, embracing the law of Germany proper, the neighboring states of Switzerland, the Netherlands, and England; Explanation of the Mirror of Suabia; Procedure in common law (3 courses;) Practical exercises on the same; Laws of the Swiss cantons compared with each other; Private law of the canton of Zürich; Commercial law; Law of exchange (2 courses;) Law of insurance; Commercial jurisprudence in the common Germanic law (2 courses;) The same compared to the English and American law; Practical exercises on criminal law; Theory and history of commerce and manufactures; Theory of money, banks and science of finances (2 courses;) Elements of national economy; Science of police; National economy (3 courses;) Practical exercises on political economy; National economy applied to agriculture; Agriculture and manufactures in Switzerland; Constitutional law in general; do. of Switzerland; Laws of cities and townships. III. FACULTY OF MEDICINE. 63 COURSES OF LECTURES A YEAR, BY 15 PROFESSORS. Osteology and syndesmology (2 courses ;) Human anatomy (2 courses;) General anatomy (histology,) (2 courses;) Dissecting (2 courses;) Repetitorium of anatomy; Zoology; Comparative anatomy; Medical physics, introductory to physiology; Inorganic chemistry; Organic chemistry; Pharmaceutical chemistry; Physiological chemistry; Materia medica (2 courses;) Physiology of the blood circulation, with a view to pathology; Special (medicinal) botany; Theoretical obstetrics (2 courses;) Sexual diseases of women; Obstetrical clinics (2 courses;) General pathological anatomy; Pathology and therapeutics of syph ilis, with demonstrations; History of development of man; Practical microscopy (2 courses;) Human physiology; Physiological experiments on animals; Special pathology and therapeutics; Exercises in prescribing medicines; Medical jurisprudence (2 courses;) Same for lawyers; (2 courses;) History of medicine; Microscopical course of pathological anatomy; Pathological demonstrations and dissections; General therapeutics and special pharmacology; Pathological histology, with microscopical demonstrations; Pathology of the mouth; Special ophthalmia, (eye-lids, cornea, iris, lens, etc.;) Ophthalmological clinic (2 courses;) Diseases of the ear; Practical operation for diseased eyes; Medical clinic at the hospitals (2 courses;) Polyclinic; Practical exercises in laryngoscopy and otoscopy; Eye-diseases of accommodation and refraction; Medicinal mineral springs; Theoretical and practical dentistry; Operative course in dentistry. IV. FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY. 157 COURSES OF LECTURES A YEAR, BY 38 PROFESSORS. a. Metaphysics, Pedagogics.—Logic and introduction to the study of metaphysical sciences; Logic and metaphysics; Psychology in general; Psychology viewed from natural sciences: Psychology in connection with pedagogics; Psychological exercises on the third book of Aristotle's work "On the soul;" Philosophical exercises on the first book of Aristotle's metaphysics; Philosophical ethics; Philosophy of religion; General history of religion; History of ancient philosophy; History of philosophy from Cartesius up to Hegel; Sense of hearing; Mental diseases (2 courses;) History of education, and the present state of the higher schools of Germany and Switzerland. b. Philology, Archæology—History of Literature.—Methodology and history of archæology; Sanscrit and explanation of the Nala (2 courses;) History of Greek literature and drama; Pindarus; Eschylus' Perser, or the Seven against Thebes; Eschylus' Agamemnon; Sophocles' Aias; Sophocles' Philoctetes; Herodotus, Book I.; Thucydides; Plato's Gorgias; Plato's Symposion; Greek epigraphics, with practical exercises; Greek metrics; Explanation of selected fragments from the Greek; Ancient metrics; Explanation of Lucretius' De rerum naturâ, lib. I.; Explanation of Plautus' Pseudulus; Philological exercises (2 courses;) Terence's Andria and selected extracts from other comedies; Sallust's Catilina; Cicero pro Quintio; Cicero de finibus bonorum et malorum, with grammatical exercises; Selected poems of Tibullus; Exercises in grammar and writing Latin and Greek; Critical exercises in paleography; Comparative grammar of the principal languages of the Indo-Germanic nations; Sanscrit grammar (3 courses;) Elements of Sanscrit; Sanscrit Kálidasas Meghadita; Arabic (2 courses;) Mythology of the Germanic nations; Interpretation of the ancient authors; Interpretation of Hartmann's Iwein; The Edda; History of German poetry in the middle ages; Explanation of the poems of Walter von der Vogelweide; History of German literature from Klopstock's period; Practical exercises in speaking German; English grammar and exercises; Shakspeare's Hamlet explained and translated; History of English poetry from Chaucer to the present time; Byron's Childe Harold, translated and explained; Exercises (oral and written) in the English language; Villehardouin, |