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SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.
English, French, Spanish.
PROFESSOR HARRISON,
Mr. BLAIN.
The courses offered in this School are General (B. A.),
Special (M. A.), and Advanced, or Post-Graduate (Ph. D.).
B. A. COURSE.
The General Course embraces such a knowledge of
the selected language as an intelligent student may be
expected to acquire in one year. Some previous preparation
is most desirable. The aim of this course is to acquaint the
student with the pronunciation, phonology, grammar, and
written practice, to initiate him into the literature through
easy and abundant reading, and to lay a solid foundation for
the prosecution of his Special and Advanced courses, if he
elects to continue his studies in this School.
GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
The Special Course embraces a systematic extension of
the General Course along the same lines, but is at once more
comprehensive and more specialized in certain directions;
incessant practice in translation and composition, gradually
increasing in difficulty, is continued; instruction in syntax,
in historical grammar, and in literature is given by lecture
and abstract; and an orderly reading of the great writers in
each language, chronologically arranged, is planned and
accomplished by class work and collateral reading.
PH. D.
The Advanced Course is intended for those students
that elect Romance Languages for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy. It embraces two years of graduate work in any
two languages of the group, and is especially adapted to
students who have graduated in Latin and Greek. Study
of the comparative grammar, vocabulary, and literature of
these languages is made a special feature of this course.
Most attractive combinations can be made in this department,
such as French-Italian, Spanish-French, Portuguese-Spanish,
Provençal-French, Latin-French, etc. Graduation
in Latin is indispensable for the prosecution of a Ph. D. course
in Romance Languages. Instruction will be given by conference,
assigned private work, and stated examination, and
a dissertation evincing original research in some department
of grammar, phonetics, syntax, literature or history, will in
every case be required. Detailed courses for intending
students will be arranged by the Professor on application.
FRENCH.
B. A. COURSE.
Text-Books.—Whitney's Large French Grammar and Introductory
French Reader; Bruno's Tour de la France; Joynes' Classic French Plays;
Bowen's French Lyrics; Fontaine's Fleurs de France; Fortier's Littérature
Française. Exercises. Parallel reading (completion of the texts begun in
class). Heath's, Gasc's or Bellows' Dictionary. The texts used have been
so chosen as to form a suitable general introduction (a) to the grammar, (b)
to the vocabulary, (c) to the history and geography, and (d) to the literature
of France in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
M. A. COURSE.
For pronunciation: Koschwitz' Parlers Parisiens; Passy's Sons du
Français (Association Fonétique). For reference: Harrison's French Syntax.
For reading: Fasnacht's Select Specimens of Great French Writers;
Masson's Series of French Prose (for the study of select periods of French
culture and civilization); Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV (for the study of
one typical reign); professor's lectures on Eminent French Writers; Chardenal's
Advanced Exercises. Examinations on definite assigned work.
In 1896 a course of seven illustrated lectures on French art, architecture,
literature, and history was given.
SPANISH.
B. A. COURSE.
Text-Books.—Manning's Spanish Grammar (for rapid survey;
Knapp's Reader (for current Spanish prose); Todd's Don Quijote, with
Selections from Lope and Calderon (for classical prose and poetry); Valera's
Pepita Jiménez; Harrison's History of Spain; Seoane's Dictionary.
Exercises. Definite collateral reading and examinations on assigned work.
M. A. COURSE.
Text-Books.—Knapp's Grammar, with lectures based on Foerster's
Sprachlehre and Wiggers' Grammatik der Spanischen Sprache; Selections
from the lyric and dramatic poets and from the great prose writers, in connection
with Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature; Isla's Le Sage's Gil
Blas; El Romancero del Cid; Seoane's Dictionary. Exercises, assigned
collateral reading, and stated examinations on definite assigned work.
Ph. D. Courses in Old French, Provençal and Old Spanish will be
arranged and offered as they are required. The texts, editions, grammars,
and chrestomathies of Schwan, Bartsch, Keller, Groeber, Suchier, Vietor,
Gaston Paris, Meyer, Darmesteter, and others, will be used, and the professor's
extensive collection of Modern Language works will be freely open to
students of the School.
ENGLISH.
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 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 genesis and 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 or Harrison and Baskervill's Primer
of Anglo-Saxon; Morris's Elementary Historical English Grammar
(revised); Corson's edition of Chaucer.
Second term—Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader (seventh edition); Mayhew's
Trench's English Past and Present; Hales's Longer English Poems;
the Arden Shakspeare; Brooke's English Literature.
For the benefit of students studying Modern English along with Old
English, one hour a week is devoted to English Grammar, Elementary
Rhetoric and Pronunciation, with one weekly exercise.
Text-Books.—Williams's Rhetoric; Phyfe's How Shall I Pronounce?
A course of eight illustrated lectures on the Homes and Haunts of English
Men of Letters was given in February, 1897.
GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
This course is a more specialized form of the B. A.
course on the same general lines; a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon
is essential to a profitable prosecution of it. The
historical study of the language is pursued in greater detail;
the student's attention is concentrated on the history and
Anglo-Saxons are given; Fourteenth Century English
receives detailed attention, and selected plays 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. Three times a
week.
Text-Books.—First term—Cook's Sievers' Old English Grammar (for
reference); Sweet's New English Grammar: Beowulf; Skeat's Principles,
I; Morris and Skeat's Specimens, I.
Second term—Morris and Skeat's Specimens, II; Skeat's Principles,
II; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; the Student's Chaucer; Brooke's History
of Old English Literature; Professor's Lectures.
Cook's Anglo-Saxon Exercises may be used, and 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 the M. A graduate.
PH. D.
Here only general hints and suggestions can be given,
the course adapting itself to the 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 examination, and original
research will form essential parts of this course.
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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