PROSPECTUS.
I. AIM.
This new organization aims to assist students of the French language to overcome the idiomatic and other difficulties of interpretation, as well as to acquire general facility in reading and writing French.
To this end it is intended to organize a French circle for regular and systematic home study, to be directed through the mail by Prof. A. Lalande.
Every member of the French circle will receive certain exercises, comprising a definite amount of reading, translating, and idiomatic and grammatic expounding, to be performed by the members and mailed to the Professor.
These exercises will be corrected by Prof. Lalande and returned to the student with notes and suggestions adapted to his individual needs. This series of graduated exercises will carry the student over all important difficulties in the language, and the required readings, etc., will insure to the faithful student such attainments in the French language as will fit him to profit fully thereafter by the most advanced instruction in class, or under a living teacher.
II. COURSE OF STUDY.
The course of study prescribed by the French circle will be divided into the following arrangement of classes:
First—Primary.
Second—Intermediate.
Third—Advanced.
(1) Primary.—In this department the students will have to translate into French the exercises contained in Fasquelle’s French course, and will also answer in French the easy questions sent to them by the Professor.
(2) Intermediate.—Pupils will be required to translate into French exercises prepared by the Professor, and study under his direction “Causeries avec mes élèves,” by L. Sauveur, and Noël & Chapsal’s French grammar.
(3) Advanced.—This class will study the French grammar and literature, and translate into French, under the direction of the Professor, some selections from Irving’s “Sketch Book.”
III. TIME OF STUDY.
Each pupil will receive twenty-five letters during the term, which will begin the 1st of September and end the 1st of the following July.
Persons may enter at any time and back numbers will be sent to them.
IV. APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP.
Persons desiring to enter the French circle should write to Prof. Lalande, answering the following questions:
1. Give your name in full.
2. Your postoffice address, with county and State.
3. The proficiency of French already attained.
V. TERMS.
To defray the expenses of correspondence, etc., an annual fee of seven dollars ($7.00) will be required. This amount should be forwarded to Prof. A. Lalande, one-half at the beginning of the term, and the balance after the twelfth exercise.
Note.—At the expiration of one term all students who understand the course which they have been studying, will be advanced into the one above it; and after having completed the entire course and passed a satisfactory examination, they will receive a diploma signed by the president and the professor.