Calendar: 1899-1900 Page 87

FACULTY of ARTS 83 with the School by experts or specialists in any of the foregoing subjects The classes which the School of Modern Oriental Studies comprises are divided under two heads Division includes classes for all Oriental languages especially required by Students qualifying for examinations for the Indian Civil Service the instruction being of the same character as that provided for some time past at University College and at King's College These classes will be continued at University College and include instruction in Sanskrit Bengali Hindi Hindustani Tamil Telugu Punjabi Pali Marathi Gujarati Arabic and Persian Division II consists mainly of classes for Modern Oriental Languages other than the Indian Languages The courses of tuition will be of practical rather than of an academic character they will have particular reference Ϊ0 commercial and official requirements and to the facilitation of colloquial intercourse with natives of Oriental countries The classes under this Division will be conducted at King's College and comprise Colloquial Arabic Modern Greek Collo- quial Persian Russian Armenian Turkish Chinese Burmese Japanese Malay and Swahili There will be three terms of about ten weeks in each year as follows Autumn Term-commencing about the beginning of October Spring Term-commencing about the middle of January Summer Term-commencing early in May fee of Three Guineas per term will have to be paid in advance by each Student for each language taken up for instruction This payment will entitle the Student to the use within the College of text books dictionaries and works of reference required in connection with the particular language taught and to the use of all the facilities which it is proposed to secure in the development of the School