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.