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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. ioi
student to recognize and classify the leading species of literary com
position, and to learn their history and underlying principles. Fall
term : Poetry, the principal topics being metre, the ballad, the epic,
the lyric, and the sonnet. Winter term : the Drama, an account of
its principal types, with their theory. Spring term : Prose, the prin
cipal topics being the essay and the novel. T., Th., 10, White 2.
Assistant Professor STrunk.
[4. English Prose, Seventeenth Century. Assistant Professor
Strunk.]
5. English Prose, Eighteenth Century. Open to students who
have had Course 1. Lectures upon the leading prose writers, with
special reference to style. T., Th., 11, White 2. Assistant Professor
PRESCOTT.
6. Argumentative Writing. Open to students who have attained
good rank in Course i, or have had Courses 1 and 2. Preparatory to
Course 22. Six written arguments, preceded by briefs. Study of
masterpieces of argumentation. Lectures on argumentative writing
and on the use of evidence. M., W., F., 10, White ia. Assistant
Professor PrESCOTT.
7. Origin and Development of English Dramatic Theory and
Forms. Open to students who have had Courses 1 and 10 [or 11]
and as much Latin and French as may be offered for admission in
Group B. Lectures on the influence exerted by the Church Plays
and upon the relation of English dramatic forms to
(Latin-French),
classic. Readings in Manly, Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean
Drama. M., W., F., 12, Morrill 22. Professor Hart.
8. French Influences in English Literature. Open to students
who have had Course 1 and as much French as may be offered for
admission in Group B. Lectures and readings. T., Th., 9, White 2.
Assistant Professor Strunk.
9. Advanced Rhetoric. Open to students in Arts who have had
Courses 1 and 2 (or ib) and either 3 or 4 or 5 [5 a]. A special study
of paragraphing and sentence-structure. For students intending to
become high-school teachers or writers. Lectures and written ex
ercises in criticism. M., F., 9, Morrill 22. Professor Hart.
Philology.
Course 10 is elementary, for persons intending
to become high-
school teachers or desirous of studying early English history or
Elizabethan literature.
Course 12 is for the special training of high-school teachers.
Courses 13 and 14 give thorough training in the methods of philo-