LOWEST CLASS.

Furthermore, the order of the classes shall be of this kind. The lowest class shall have two decuries groups of ten for the time being, of which the lowest shall undertake the care of reading and writing fluently: the other shall treat both writing and the inflections of nouns and verbs with a Nomenclature proposed for the memory of the students. The teacher of this class shall be called the Hypodidascalus Assistant Teacher, who shall exercise all these things on the days of Lectures, as much in the afternoon as in the morning, as often as one goes to school, in such a way that while one of the decuries is being instructed, the other prepares itself for reciting, which will be done most conveniently if the students are not dismissed without a lecture, and if the examination begins as soon as one arrives at school, from the lowest students of the lowest decury, so that that decury recites twice and the other once. The same shall be done if specimens of writing, which are proposed toward the end of the school before lunch, are exhibited after lunch, and vice versa.
On the first day of Repetitions before noon, all shall continue the same study as on the other days: on the second day, however, only the second decury shall render by memory the task of the whole week.

MIDDLE CLASS.

The master of the middle class shall be named the Prouisor Overseer/Superintendent, who shall propose the eight parts of speech, and upon their completion, the lighter rules of Syntax and the Elementale Elementary Primer for Greek reading. From the authors, however, in the first part of the year, he shall lecture before lunch on the distichs of Cato, and after lunch on the Colloquies of Maturinus Corderius; in the other part of the year, he shall lecture on Cicero's Familiar Epistles and the Eclogues of Ovid's Tristia, or in their place, the ancient fables of Gabriel Faernus, first using a simple interpretation and investigation of grammatical accidents, then adding the exposition of phrases. At the end, all the boys of this class shall exhibit the lessons from the authors written out as a specimen, so that they may grow accustomed to Orthography.
The order of reading is established in this manner. The reading of Grammar...