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I. English.
Primarily for Undergraduates.
Course 1: Course 1 in English Literature prerequisite.—Course 1 in
English is designed to lay a broad foundation for the intelligent study of
the language on both the historical (philological) and the literary side.
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. 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.
Text-Books.—First Term:—Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer; Bradley's The
Making of English.
Second Term:—Morris and Skeat's Chaucer's Prologue and Knightes Tale;
Baskervill and Harrison's Anglo-Saxon Reader (prose); Greenough and
Kittredge's Words and their Ways in English Speech; Lectures on Early
English Literature.
Third Term:—Baskervill and Harrison's Anglo-Saxon Reader (poetry);
Corson's Introduction to the Study of Shakspere; the Arden Hamlet;
Saunders' Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Kitchin's Spenser's Faörle Queene, Book I.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Course 2: Course 1 prerequisite.—This course is a more specialized
form of Course 1 on the same general lines; a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon
is essential to its profitable prosecution. The historical study of
the language is pursued in greater detail; the student's attention is concentrated
on the history and origins of English; lectures on the Poetry
and Life of the Anglo-Saxons are given; Fourteenth Century English
receives detailed attention, and selected works of the Elizabethan period
will be examined and studied critically.
The effort will constantly be made to make these courses in the
English Language run parallel on the linguistic side with the courses in
English Literature, so that the two may profitably be taken together.
Text-Books.—First Term:—Sweet's or Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader
(prose); Morris and Skeat's Specimens, II; Toller's Outlines. Parallel
Reading.
Second Term:—Skeat's Principles, I; The Student's Chaucer; Brooke's
History of Old English Literature; Professor's Lectures on Anglo-Saxon
Meters; Anglo-Saxon, continued (poetry). Parallel Reading.
Third Term:—Beowulf; Skeat's Principles, II; Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales (completed); Spenser's Faörie Queene; Brooke (completed); Lectures
on Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
In 1904-5 and 1905-6 this class discussed once a week in the English
Seminary, second term, written reports on points connected with Chaucer's
language, vocabulary, proverbs, learning, versification, etc. During the third
term Spenser formed the center of the Seminary work.
A piece of technical work, such as the construction of a vocabulary,
the examination of particular points in syntax or grammar, or the discussion
of a particular author, may be required of a student in this
course. Parallel reading is required.
For Graduates Only.
Course 3: Course 2 prerequisite.—A course in Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
Course 4: Course 2 prerequisite.—A course in Anglo-Saxon Prose.
Course 5: Course 2 prerequisite.—A course in Middle English Poetry.
Course 6: Course 2 prerequisite.—A course in Gothic.—(All of these
courses except Course 6 were given in 1906-7.)
Courses 3, 4, 5, and 6 are open to students who desire to specialize
in the subject of English, and especially to those who choose this subject
as their major elective for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. A general
statement only of their character can be given, each course being adapted
to the needs and preferences of the student. The foundations will be
laid in a thorough knowledge of Gothic, Old and Middle High German,
and Old French to the Sixteenth Century; phonetics will be carefully
studied; and the principles of comparative grammar and syntax will be
duly explained.
Frequent conference, stated examinations, and original research will
form essential parts of work in these courses.
The professor's large and choice collection of Anglo-Saxon, English,
German, and French philological works is open to the students.
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