‘Univ.of Ill. Library Dahronlurth Colleges. S Ee re — § LipraRY “wake: en aa "Sem aaa Thursday Evening, Dec. 23d, 1869. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS J M, W. Jones, Stationer, 108 & 110 Randolph Sh ‘DER WACHTELSCHLAG,” - - - Chorus for Two Sopranos and Alto, by Hering. The Students. “MATER DOLOROSA,” - - = = 3 = = - - 2 - Latin Canticle. Mast. Wm. Dyhrenfurth. “BATTLE OF FLODDEN,” - - - ae - - - - - English Recitation. Miss L. Plows. “THE THREE WARNINGS,” - .- - - - - - - - English Recitation. Mast. Victor Henrotin. “THE DJINNS,”’ - - - - =) lipase - - - - English Declamation. Miss Virginia Crone. ‘TELL ME, YE WINGED WINDS,” - - - - - - Concerted Declamation. Toung Ladies’ Seminary. “MINNA VON BARNHELM,” - - - ~ Original German Comedy, by Lessing. Misses V. Crone and L. Brachvogel, and Musters W. Dyhrenfurth, Claussenius, Jaeger and Heunisch. Aor k INTERMEZZO, - - - - - - - Trio for three voices, by Prof. Emil Rein. “MINNA VON BARNHELM,” = 0 oe AP eke Pe eat eat hte Sie AGTH: ; IPT EH POLISH BUY Vie fan a ee 8 et - - - - - English Recitation. Miss Emily Buckley. j ‘“PYRAMUS AND THISBE,” - - - - - - - - English Recitation. Mast. Fred. Edler. ‘KEUGENE ARAM,” - - - - - - - - - - English Declamation. Miss Mary Buckley. “THE FALLS OF LODORE,” - = - 2 - 2 Concerted Declamation. The Students of the High Sehool. “IN THE FOREST,” - - . - : - Chorus for mixed voices, by Mendelsohn. The Students. Semi-Annual Public Examination. The usual half-yearly examination has extended throughout the last week and has bee conducted almost wholly in writing. A Board of Examiners, consisting of some of the most distinguished literary gentlemen in the city, have kindly supervised the arrangements and have examined the papers written. Appended are their general «nd specific reports, to which th: attention of the public is respectfully directed. : —<—<<<— a. DYHRENFURTH CoLLEGE, 116 & 118 RANDOLPH ST., t Chicago, December 2st, 1869. We, the undersigned, have visited at the Dyhrenfurth Colleges during the course of their late written examination, and have great pleasure in certifying our conviction of the perfect | fairness with which it has been conducted in the classes we have respectively examined. The examination has embraced the entire range of their sessional studies, and its result affords the best possible proof of the completeness and intelligence with which these subjects, many of them of no small difficnlty, have been grasped and comprehended by the students. But few Institutions could have passed so successfully through so fall and exhaustive an ordeal, and the | results are equally creditable to professors and students. WM. BROSS, Latin Classes. E. COLBERT, Classes in Astronomy and Physical Science, E. SCHLA EGER, German Classes. LEANDER STONE. Mathematical Classes, Exe cn ED. CARREY. } nae, " VicE CoNSUL DE FRANCE. ee et et French Classes. I have visited at the Dyhrenfurth College during the late written Public Examination, and~ having personally inspected that of the 1st and 2d Classes in Latin, I have great pleasure in stating my entire satisfiction at the completeness of the method pursued and the high degree of proficiency thereby displayed. The first class, in an oral examination, showed a thorough acq'1aintance with the grammar and structure of the Latin language, and tratislated promptly and correctly several passages in Virgil, selected at random from their half-ye:ir’s work. Their written papers were even superior, consisting of the translation of two Jong and difficult passages from the Fifth Book and questions in parsing,—the construction being critically correct, elegant and terse, the language well chosen, and adhering as closely to the original as due regard to good English would permit. The second class, although by no meansas far advanced, showed a thorough acquaintance wlth the accidence and elementary princip'es which have engaged their attention during the session. WM. BROSS. In accordance with your request, I spent some time during each day of last week in attending the semi-annual examinations in the institution over which you preside, and atten- tively watched the examination of several of the classes. I beg leave to report the following as the result of my observations: The High School Class in Physical Geography was well tested. About thirty-five ques- tions were given orally, which each student was expected to answer in writing. The great ma- jority of the pupils answered every question, and in a manner which was both correct and concise, evincing a good degree of acquaintance with the subject, while the variety in the | different responses to the same query sufficiently showed that the pupils had thought about the | matter and were not blindly using the language of a text book. The High School Class in Astronomy, numbering thirty pupils, was examined in a similiar way, and with an equally satisfactory result. The pupils showed that most of them wnderstood the changing phenomena of seasons and star-positions, as produced by the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth—which is rarely comprehended, even by adults, though lying at the foundation of astronomical knowledge. Their teaching has evidently been both careful and thorough. ; The two classes in Natural Science, (ladies and boys,) were more elementary than the two preceding, but the exercises were equally full of interest. The constitution of the atmosphere and its leading meteorological phenomena were the subjects of the questions, and the majority of the answers were very satisfactory. 941187 LIBRARY “~~~ | UNIVERSITY OF mare si N 2 SS. eT 3 0112 115544485 et 3 < AG ae i 7 { acs In reference to these three classes, I may observe that the written answers show very few errors, either in orthography or syntax. The spelling of the *thard words” is equally correct vith that of the more simple. I consider this mode of examination to be the best; it is so searching and so complete that the student mwst exhibit the exact degree of his.or her pro- ficiency in ench branch. The almost uniform correctness of the responses to the questions proves that the course of study here pursued will be lastingly beneficial: as a thing that is once properly learned is never fo: gotten. My attention was also called to the exercises of a young ladies’ class, and of a boys’ class in Etymology, and Derivative Spelling. Iregard this as one of the most valuable features of your course, and am glad to know that you give an unusual amount of attention to teaching | the true meaning of words, and the reason why. One half of the disputes in the world arise simply through misapprehensions of meaning—the first and wecond persons (Land you) attach- | ing different significations to the same word or phrase. The examivcatious of those classes | | | | showed that the pupils have already made good progress in learning the right use of words, and in the process of thonght-building, which inevitably accompanies that of verbal derivation. Resnectfully, E. COLBERT, e Chicago Tribune. | J have examined the papers written by the Ist, 2d and 3d Classes in French at their late | public examination, and have much pleasure in expressing my satisfaction at the degree of efficiency therein displayed. It would be invidious to make any comparisons between these classes, but, in view of the very short time durmg which they each have studied the French language, I consider the progress the