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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 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.
Three times a week.
Text-Books.—First Term: Sweet's or Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader; Sweet's
Short English Grammar; Morris and Skeat's Specimens, II.
Second Term: Skeat's Principles, I; the Student's Chaucer; Brooke's History
of Old English Literature; Professor's Lectures; Anglo-Saxon continued.
Third Term: Beowulf; Skeat's Principles, II; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (completed);
Moulton's Literary Study of the Bible; Brooke (completed).
Note: In 1899 the M. A. 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 the English Bible
formed the center of the Seminary work. (As in '98.)
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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