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B. Study.

This part of the requirement is intended as a natural and logical continuation
of the student's earlier reading, with greater stress laid upon form and
style, the exact meaning of words and phrases, and the understanding of allusions.
The books provided for study are arranged in four groups, from each
of which one selection is to be made:

Drama.

Group 1: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet.

Poetry.

Group 2: Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and either Comus or Lycidus;
Tennyson's The Coming of Arthur, The Holy Grail, and The Passing of

Arthur; the selections from Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley, in Book IV of
Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series).

Oratory.

Group 3: Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Macaulay's Speech
on Copyright and Lincoln's Speech at Cooper Union; Washington's Farewell
Address, and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration.

Essays.

Group 4: Carlyle's Essay on Burns, with a selection from Burns' Poems;
Macaulay's Life of Johnson; Emerson's Essay on Manners.

English D. A fourth unit in English will be granted to those students
only who at least in four full years have successfully completed an additional
amount of work equal to one-third of the above uniform English requirements
A, B and C.