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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 sides. 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
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 Anglo-Saxon Primer; Harrison and Baskervill's
Anglo-Saxon Reader; Lounsbury's English Language; Williams's
Composition and Rhetoric.

Second Term: Morris's Chaucer's Prologue and Knightes Tale; Harrison-Baskervill
(completed); Williams's Composition and Rhetoric (continued);
Brooke's English Literature (begun); Craik's English of Shakespeare.

Third Term: Anglo-Saxon, Brooke, Morris and Williams, completed; Hales's
Longer English Poems; the Arden Shakespeare (for careful verbal and structural
analysis of at least one play).

Note: It is desirable that students entering this class should have studied at
least a standard English Grammar and a standard Rhetoric. No previous
knowledge of Old English is required. Parallel reading is required.

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 (Prose);
Morris and Skeat's Specimens, II; Skeat's Principles, I.

Second Term: Skeat's Principles, I (continued); the Student's Chaucer;
Brooke's History of Old English Literature; Professor's Lectures; Anglo-Saxon
continued (Poetry).

Third Term: Beowulf; Skeat's Principles, II; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
(completed); Moulton's Literary Study of the Bible; Brooke (completed); The
Mermaid Series; Corson's Introduction to Shakespeare.

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.

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.
Parallel reading is required.

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 examinations, 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.

II. German.

B. A. COURSE.

The B. A. course in German is, like the corresponding course in English,
designed to lay a broad foundation for the intelligent study of the
language on both the philological and the literary sides. To accomplish
this purpose successfully an accurate knowledge of English
grammar and a few months' familiarity with the rudiments of German are
necessary as preliminary to entering the class. A carefully selected
series of text-books will gradually introduce the student to the pronunciation,
grammar, syntax, and translation of the language, exercises
once a week in German script will familiarize him with grammatical
analysis; and appropriate texts on the history and literature of
Germany will introduce him to these important sides of the study.
Parallel reading is required. Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Thomas's Practical or Whitney's Compendious German Grammar;
Joynes's Introductory German Reader; Otis's Grimm's Haus-Märchen;
Von Klenze's or Buchheim's Deutsche Gedichte; Von Jagemann's Undine;
Buchheim's Peter Schlemihl; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Goethe's Egmont;
Hosmer's History of German Literature.

Dictionaries: Whitney's or Heath's.

Scientific German.

Students taking this course will study thoroughly Part I of Thomas's
Practical or Whitney's Compendious German Grammar and will read
Gore's, Hodges's, Dippold's or Brandt's Scientific German Reader (at
least two of these).

A student successfully passing his examination on these four scientific
books, together with exercises, Hosmer's Literature and the
Grammar, would be doing about the equivalent of the literary B. A.
German course and would be recommended for the B. A. diploma.

A lighter course (suggested above) would be valuable to Medical,
Biological, and general scientific students, but would lead to no degree.

Dictionary: Tolhausen's Technological (English, German and French definitions).

M. A. COURSE.

This course is a more specialized continuation of the B. A. course in
German on the same general lines, and is open to students who have
completed the B. A. or its equivalent. The historical study of German
is taken up; the masterpieces of German literature are systematically
studied in critical annotated texts; exercises oral and written continue
throughout the year; and the literature and life of Germany are
studied in some detail. Parallel reading is required. Three times a
week.

Text-Books.—Whitney's Compendious Grammar; Behaghel's Historical
Grammar; Stein's German Exercises; Goethe's Meisterwerke (Bernhardt);
Lessing, Schiller, Heine (annotated editions); Wenckebach's Meisterwerke
des Mittelalters; Francke's or Scherer's History of German Literature.

Dictionary: Whitney's, Heath's, Adler's or Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger.

Note: The work in the B. A. and the M. A. courses is so conveniently
divided and distributed by the three-term system that the student gets over
the ground without hardship or difficulty.

PH. D. COURSE.

A student of German, having completed the B. A. and M. A. courses
as above outlined, is now prepared to enter upon studies more advanced
still. German and English combine admirably for the doctorate as
"major" and "cognate minor" to each other, either from the German
or from the English point of view. Conference with the Professor is
requested for the purpose of arranging the student's studies. If German
is elected, Gothic, systematically studied through Wright's Primer,
Bernhardt's Gotische Bibel and Skeat, is the foundation. Behaghel's
Hêliand (Saxon) may well follow this. A course in Old and Middle
High German, studied in the works and editions of Braune, Wright,
Sievers, Erdmann, and Henry, connects the Gothic and modern High
German, and gives ample philological as well as literary training to
the German specialist.

Frequent conference, stated examination, and original research form
essential parts of this course, which culminates in a dissertation on
some special linguistic or literary point connected with the study,
handed in before May 1 of the graduating year.

Ph. D. combinations suggested: German (major), English Language
(cognate minor), English Literature (second minor); English Language,
English Literature, German; English Literature, English Language,
German, etc.