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For Graduates Only.

Course 3D, Course 4D: Course 2C prerequisite.—Courses 3D and
4D are open to students who desire to specialize in the subject of English,
and especially to those who select English as their major subject, or as the
primary minor subject for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. A general
statement only of their character can be given. English Literature of the
Old, Middle, and New English periods to the time of Shakespeare will be
exhaustively studied; English Philology, the foundations of which will
be laid in a thorough knowledge of Gothic, Old and Middle English, Old
and Middle High German, and Old French phonology and grammar, will
receive thorough treatment; general phonetics will be carefully studied;
and the principles of comparative grammar and syntax will be duly
explained.

The completion of either of these two courses will satisfy the requirements
for English as the primary minor for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy; the completion of both courses and the preparation of a
satisfactory dissertation will fulfil the requirements for English as the
major subject for the same degree.

In each course three hours a week (hours by appointment) is given
to lectures. In addition, the student is required to prepare, at stated
intervals, written seminary-papers, showing original research, and to attend
such other lectures and courses, in this or any other Academic School of
the University, as the Academic Faculty, on recommendation of the professor,
may deem necessary. Courses 3D and 4D were not given in
1907-1908.

The professor's large and choice collection of Anglo-Saxon, English,
German, and French philological works is open to the students in Courses
3D and 4D.