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LINDEN KENT MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE.

Professor Kent.

Adjunct Professor Myers.

Mr. Morrow.

Mr. Steger.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The general
entrance requirements.

For Undergraduates.

A Courses: Entrance examination, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
—These courses are designed to meet the needs of students preparing
directly for professional studies, and of college students who have
had a four year high school course.

English Literature A1: Recommended to students who have satisfied
the minimum requirements for entrance.

1. Rhetoric and Composition.—A thorough review of the principles
of rhetoric; and constant practice in composition, with special
attention to Description and Narration. Text-books: Linn's Essentials
of Composition.

2. Composition and English Literature.—Exposition; History of English
Literature, with class and parallel reading of prose and poetry.
Text-books: Long's History of English Literature; Manly's English
Prose and Hutchinson's British Poetry.

3. Composition and English Literature.—Argumentation; History
of English Literature, with class and parallel reading of prose
and poetry. Parallel reading and written exercises are required
throughout the session. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Adjunct Professor
Myers.

English Literature A2: Recommended to students with good
preparatory training in English and especially those who expect to
pursue further courses in English Literature.


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1. Advanced Composition.—Theory and structure of the paragraph;
description and narration; composition of the paragraph and
of longer discourse, and investigation of standard prose. Textbooks:
Scott and Denney's Paragraph-Writing (Revised Edition),
Nutter, Hersey, and Greenough's Specimens of Prose Composition.

2. Composition and American Literature.—Exposition; History
of American Literature. Critical study of American prose and poetry.
Text-books: Cairns's American Literature; Bronson's American
Poems. Parallel reading in prose and poetry is required.

3. Composition and American Literature.—Argumentation; History
of American Literature. Critical study of American prose and
poetry. Parallel reading required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Adjunct
Professor Myers.

To students entering from four year high schools advanced standing
will be granted only after examinations.

English Literature B1: Course A1 or A2, or the equivalent of
either, prerequisite.

1. Advanced Rhetoric and Composition with special study of
the structure of modern prose. Text-books: Lewes's Principles of
Success in Literature; Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric;
the Atlantic Monthly.

2. Narration; with special study of the short story and the biographical
sketch. Description as ancillary to Narration.

3. Exposition, with special study of the literary essay. Textbook:
Bronson's English Essays. Poetry and Poetic Forms. Textbook:
Alden's English Verse; and the Professor's Notes. About
900 pages of parallel reading, 20 written exercises, and 3 essays, one
each term, will be required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Kent.

English Literature B2: One A Course, or its equivalent, prerequisite,
and A2 strongly recommended.

1. History of Lyric Poetry.

2. Essayists from Bacon to Burke.

3. The Poetry of Tennyson. Text-books will be assigned at the
beginning of each term.

About 1,000 pages of parallel reading, 20 written exercises, and
3 essays, one each term, will be required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3
session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10. Cabell Hall
Professor Kent.


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For Graduates and Undergraduates.

English Literature C1:

  • 1. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist.

  • 2. Seventeenth Century Prose.

  • 3. Southern Literature. Professor Kent.

For Graduates Only.

English Literature D1 or primary Minor.

  • 1. The History of English Prose Rhythm.

  • 2. Great Letter-Writers and Diarists.

  • 3. The Beginning of Fiction. Professor Kent.

English D2: Third Term. The Rossettis, Morris, and Swinburne.
Professor Kent.

For summer-school courses in English Literature, on which
college-credit will be allowed, see p. 278.

II. Public Speaking.

Adjunct Professor Paul.

For Undergraduates.

Course B1: English Literature A, or equivalent, prerequisite.
Writing original speeches and addresses; the content and structure
of the speech of introduction, of presentation, of acceptance, of
welcome, of farewell, of the after-dinner speech, and of various
other types; the distinctive principles of oral style. Delivery of
written, original speeches; individual training in the effective use
of the voice, in platform deportment, in bearing, in the use of
gestures; principles of vocal and physical expression. Extemporaneous
speaking from outlines; impromptu speaking on topics of the
day. History of oratory from Empedocles to Bryan. (B. A. or
B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
3-4; Minor Hall; membership of each section limited to a
maximum of twelve and a minimum of six. Adjunct Professor Paul.

Course B2. Public Speaking B1, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
Principles of argumentation and debating, including analysis of the
proposition, evidence, brief-making, and tactics of debate. Practical
debating by opposing teams that each week study a public question
and draw briefs in preparation for the debate. (B. A. or B. S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
3-4; Minor Hall; membership of each section limited to a maximum
of eighteen and a minimum of six. Adjunct Professor Paul.