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B. A. COURSE.
The B. A. course in English is designed to lay a broad foundation for the intel-
ligent 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); Williams' Composition
and Rhetoric.
Second Term: Cook's First Book in Old English; Corson's Introduction to Chaucer;
Morris's Elementary Hist. Grammar (completed); Williams' Composition and
Rhetoric (continued); Brooke's English Literature (begun).
Third Term: Cook, Brooke, Corson and Williams, completed; Hales' Longer English
Poems; the Arden Shakspere.
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