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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. 107
The greater part of the poetry, and selections from the prose of
of these authors will be read, and each member of the class will pre
sent a paper on some assigned topic.
32. Lectures, with readings, on American poetical and prose
literature, from Bryant to the present time. T., Th., 11, Barnes
Hall. Professor Corson.
33. Lectures on the English Poets of the 19th Century, of
whom Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Ten
nyson, Matthew Arnold, Mrs. Browning, and Robert Browning, will
he specially treated. M., W., F., 10, Barnes Hall. Professor Corson.
The course will begin with Browning's, The Ring and the Book,
and will continue in an inverse order, ending with Wordsworth's
Prelude.
34. Lectures on English Dramatic Literature. Special Stud
ies : Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Edward the Second ; Shakespeare's
Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, King John, Much Ado About
Nothing, Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Win
ter's Tale, and the Tempest ; Ben Johnson's The Alchemist ; Beau
mont and Fletcher's Philaster ; Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two
Noble Kinsmen ; Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. (Examinations in
Shakespeare will be based on Corson's Introduction to the Study
of Shakespeare.) Included in this course will be lectures on the
Drama of the Restoration, the Collier Controversy, the Sentimental
Drama, the reactionary plays of Goldsmith, and the plays of Richard
Brinsley Sheridan. T., Th., 10, Barnes Hall. Professor Corson.
35. Lectures on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Troilus and
Criseyde, and readings from the Canterbury Tales (Corson's Selec
tions), and from the Vision of William concerning Piers the Plow
man (Dr. Skeat's Selections, Clarendon Press Series). F., 11, Barnes
Hall. Professor Corson.
Graduate Seminary. Studies will be assigned at the meeting
which will be called of the gradvrate students in the department, soon
after the beginning of the Fall term. Two hours. Professor Corson.
No student is admitted to the Seminary for a less period than a year,
and only those graduate students are admitted whose previous literary
education has fitted them for the work.
PHILOSOPHY.
The Department of Philosophy is known as "The Susan Linn
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Sage School oe Philosophy. This school owes its existence to
the generosity of the late Henry W. Sage, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees. At a meeting of the Board held Oct. 22d, 1890, Mr. Sage