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B. A. COURSE.
The B. A. course in English is designed to lay a broad foundation
for the intelligent study of the language on both the historical (philological)
and the literary sides. The opportunity is seized from the
beginning to interest the student in the history and etymology of
current English words and phrases, to point him by a general course
of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and Middle English to the gradual
evolution of Modern English as we have it now, and to furnish him
with ample material for the prosecution of further study and research
in one of the most delightful fields open to the modern student. A
carefully graded series of texts and text-books will lead the student
from the language of Alfred through Chaucer and the Elizabethans to
the English of Victoria; and practical weekly or fortnightly exercises
in English composition on assigned topics will, it is hoped, shape his
style and enlarge his knowledge of contemporary English. Three times
a week.
Text-Books.—First Term: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer; Harrison and Baskervill's
Anglo-Saxon Reader; Lounsbury's English Language; Williams's
Composition and Rhetoric.
Second Term: Morris's Chaucer's Prologue and Knightes Tale; Harrison-Baskervill
(completed); Williams's Composition and Rhetoric (continued);
Brooke's English Literature (begun); Craik's English of Shakespeare.
Third Term: Anglo-Saxon, Brooke, Morris and Williams, completed; Hales's
Longer English Poems; the Arden Shakespeare (for careful verbal and structural
analysis of at least one play).
Note: It is desirable that students entering this class should have studied at
least a standard English Grammar and a standard Rhetoric. No previous
knowledge of Old English is required. Parallel reading is required.
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