3. English Literature from the Restoration to the present day.— Lectures and seminary work upon the poets and important literary movements of the last two centuries. -Lectures upon the history and principles of English Versification. E3 4. Anglo-Saxon.—Training in early linguistic forms and in development of English.-Literary study of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. -Text-book, Smith's Anglo-Saxon Grammar. EA2 5. Chaucer. Supplementary to 4.-Further study of linguistic development. Chaucer's poetry.-Collateral reading in the works of his contemporaries. EB2 6. Shakspere and his Contemporaries.—Elizabethan drama, lectures and collateral reading. Literary study and textual interpretation of selected plays of Shakspere.-Textbooks, the Globe Shakspere, Rolfe's editions, and Dowden's Primer. A study of the non-dramatic poetry of the period will complete the course. E3 7. American Literature. The greatest writers of the country and century will be studied. Lectures, reports, and collateral reading. Text-book, Beers' Outline Sketch of American Literature. E2 8. Argumentation.-Lectures upon the history of oratory and the principles of debate. Practice in brief-drawing and discussion. RIII1 9. The English Novel.-Critical study of masterpieces of English Fiction. E2 Courses 6 and 7 will be given in 1899-1900; courses 3, 4 and 5 in 1900-1901. This alternation will enable the student, by a proper choice of electives, to trace through its entire history the linguistic growth and the literary development of English. Members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes are required to deliver two selected declamations during the year. Juniors follow a course in argumentation, as prescribed above (8). Seniors are required to deliver two original orations and to write two essays during the year. PROFESSOR TUPPER MR DOTEN Elocution FRENCH 1. Elementary Course.-Grammar, Pronunciation, Composition and Translation. I4 Required of Literary-Scientific Freshmen who are conditioned in modern languages, and of Scientific Freshmen who do not present the entrance requireTM ments in German. Elective for Agricultural students, and for Classical Sophomores and Juniors. 2. Scientific French.-Advanced Grammar and Composition; reading of scientific prose. 13 Required of Scientific Freshmen who present the entrance requirements in French. Elective for others. The course may be taken two years. 3. French Literature in the Seventeenth Century, alternating with French Literature in the Eighteenth Century.—Advanced Grammar and Composition. 13 Required of Literary-Scientific students who present the entrance requirements in French, but not in German, and for Academic students who have taken Course I. The course may be taken two years. 4. French Life and Culture.—A. During the Middle Ages; B. During the Renaissance. Lectures, translation in class, themes and collateral reading. E2 5. Literary Movements in France in the Nineteenth Century.-A. Romanticism and the reaction against the movement. B. Present-day tendencies. Lectures, translation in class, themes, and collateral reading. E2 6. The Development of Historical Writing in France. readings in the French historians. El Lectures and 7. The History of Literary Criticism in France. Lectures and read Courses 4 and 5, and 6 and 7 are given in alternate years and are elective for students who have taken Course 3. 4 and 6 are given this year. A student in the department of Arts who begins French or German in college is required to continue the study a second year. PROFESSOR KITCHIN ITALIAN AND SPANISH Whenever ten or more students desire it, a course in either Italian or Spanish will be given. Both courses will not be offered the same year, but either is elective for students who have had at least one year of French in college. The course in Spanish is offered for 1899-1900. 1. Italian a. Elementary Course.—Grammar, pronunciation, memorizing short poems, and translation from De Amicis: Cuore, and Pellico: Francesca da Rimini. A3 b. Classic and Modern Italian.-Dante: La Vita Nuova, entire; La Divina Commedia, selected cantos. Verga: La Cavalleria Rusticana ed altre novelle. B3 2. Spanish a. Elementary Course.-Grammatical principles, pronunciation, and translation of easy literary and scientific prose; memorizing short poems. Estébanez: Un Drama Nuevo. A3 b. Classic and Modern Spanish.-Cervantes: Don Quixote, selected chapters. Galdós: Doña Perfecta. PROFESSOR KITCHIN GERMAN 1. Elementary Course.-Joynes-Meissner German Grammar with written exercises; Brandt's German Reader; Andersen's Märchen; Gedichte: Goethe, Schiller, Heine. Exercises in conversation based on the systems of Rosenthal and Meissner. Alternative with French 1 for Classical Sophomores, and, by special permission for Literary-Scientific Freshmen who present the French required on p. 18; also for Juniors. 2. Composition.-Joynes-Meissner (part third) with written exercises and exercises in conversation. Fouqué's Undine; Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans; Heine's Reisebilder; Goethe's Faust (first part) with introductory lectures. 3. a. Lessing's Laokoon and Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris will be read in the class. Collateral reading: Schiller's Die Piccolomini; Lessing's Emilia Galotti and Minna von Barnhelm. b. Lectures. Outlines of German Literature in the Classic Period. See Note at end of French Courses. PROFESSOR HUFF 1s. Elementary Course for Scientific students.-Joynes-Meissner German Grammar with written exercises and exercises in conversation (Rosenthal); Van Daell's German Reader; Johannes Walther's Allgemeine Meerskunde. 4 2s. Advanced Course.-Joynes-Meissner German Grammar (part third) with exercises in Composition; continuation of Rosenthal; Cohn's Ueber Bakterien and Goethe's Naturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten (Helmholtz); current literature in scientific periodicals. 3 MR ENO PHILOSOPHY 1. Elementary Course.-Brief general introduction to philosophy, in lectures.-Logic; text-book, Creighton's Introductory Logic.-Ethics; text-book, Murray's Introduction to Ethics. RIII3 2. Advanced Course.-Psychology; lectures and Dewey's Psychology; Ladd's Outlines of Physiological Psychology.—Fundamental problems of philosophy; lectures and Hibben's The Problems of Philosophy.-Theism; text-book, Flint's Theism. EIV3 3. History of Philosophy.-Lectures and Weber's History of Philosophy. EIV3 4. Fine Art.-Lectures and text-books; Kedney's Hegel's Aesthetics; G. Baldwin Brown's The Fine Arts. EIVB2 PROFESSOR TORREY HISTORY 1. General History.—Under this head Mediæval and Modern history will be covered in three courses. These will be given in successive years, providing thus a three-years course of consecutive historical study. Collateral reading, topical investigations, and theses will be required. E3 Mediæval History, from the Fall of Rome to the French Revolution. Study of medieval institutions, migrations, feudalism, Holy Roman Empire, papacy, crusades, towns, rise of European states, Renaissance and Reformation, colonial expansion. a. b. Modern European History from the French Revolution to the present. Study of the Revolution, its causes and effects, Napoleonic wars, readjustment of Europe, Germany, Russia, industrial revolution, political, and social condition of Europe. |