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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 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.
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