Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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YEAR BOOK 31 will involve a careful study of Fitzgerald ' s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, some selected poems of Matthew Arnold, and Tennyson ' s In Memoriam. Special attention will be paid to the attitude displayed toward the problems of life. PUBLIC SPEAKING. Course I. — Elocution. Two hours per week throughout the year. First Semester. — The physical aspects of public speech. Drill in pronunciation, enunciation, variety, directness, the development of vocal purity and of vocal energy. Second Semester. — The intellectual and emotional side o,f public speech. Daily drill on masterpieces of oratory, with the object of cultivating appreciativeness, poise, color, melody and mastery of an audience. .Course II. — A Study of Great Orators. Two hours a week throughout the year. This course combines a study of the lives and works of the world ' s greatest orators with a course in the application of the principles of public speaking. Declamations, briefs, discussions, topical speeches, based on the lives and works of the orator under discussion are assigned, and each student is given the opportunity to put into practice the theories of Course I. Open only to those who have had Oratory I and English I, or who have participated in any intercollegiate debate or oratorical contest. Course III. — Interpretive Reading. The class will analyze and interpret two plays of Shakespeare each semester. The plays will be chosen from the following list: Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, the Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night ' s Dream, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing. Only open to those who have had English I. and Oratory I. The Oratorical association of Albion College each year sends representatives to four state oratorical contests: The men ' s In- tercollegiate State Contest, the Women ' s Intercollegiate State Contest, the State Peace Contest and the State Prohibition Con- test. Each year the Association also conducts three intercollegi- ate debates. Students wishing to participate in any of these, are urged to take Oratory I. as early in their course as possible.

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30 ALBION COLLEGE Course IV. — Writing. One hour a week throughout the year. This course is designed to furnish practice for those students who wish to develop the art of writing. No limit is placed on the range of subjects. Open only to those who have had two years of work in the department of English language. The instructor reserves the right to limit the number of this class at his discretion. Course V — Debating. Three hours a week throughout the first semester. Weekly drill in speaking and the drawing of briefs upon assigned topics. Open only to those who have com- pleted Course I. ENGLISH LITERATURE Course I.— -Pour hours throughout the year. First Semester. — English Literature. Prom the beginning to the Revival of Romanticism. Special attention is paid to Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, Milton. Second Semester. — English Literature. Periods studied in- clude Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century in prose and poetry. The text used in both semesters is a Pirst View of Eng- lish Literature by Moody and Lovett. In the Masterpieces the Lake edition is preferred. Note books are made throughout the course. Collateral reading in the college library is required. Course II. — The Romantic Poets. Two hours. Origin and influence of the Romantic Movement. Classicism and Roman- ticism contrasted. Special study, in first semester, of Words- worth and Byron; in second semester, of Shelley and Keats. Course III. — -Prose Masterpieces. Two hours. A study of English prose from Bacon to Emerson, supplemented by a study of the various theories of style. This course is also listed under English Language. Course IV. — The Elizabethan Drama. Three hours. A study of English drama in the age of Queen Elizabeth, its origin and tendencies. A large number of the plays of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries and predecessors will be read and dis- cussed. Course V. — Victorian Poets. A. Two hours. The char- acter and tendencies of English poetry in the reign of Queen Victoria. A special study of Tennyson in the first semester and of Browning in the second semester. Some attention paid to the poetry of Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne. Course VI. — Victorian Poets. B. Two hours. This course

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S2 ALBION COLLEGE HISTORY. Course I. — History of Europe. From the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Twentieth Century. About one-third of the course will be devoted to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Particular attention will be given to economic and social progress in the various European countries. First Semester. — Three hours. Second Semester. — Three hours. Text-books. Collateral reading. Lectures. Course II. — American History. Emphasis will be laid upon the influence of geographic conditions in American history, the development of our constitutional system, the industrial pro- gress of the nation, its tariff history, the anti-slavery agitation and the problems connected with the reco istruction. A. Second Semester. — Four hours. B. First Semester. — Four hours. (Not given in 1911-12.) C. Second Semester. — Three hours. Text-books. Lectures. Collateral reading. Reports. (Not given in 1911-12.) Course III. — English History. Particular attention will be given to the constitutional and economic history of England. First Semester — Four hours. Text books. Lectures. Col- lateral reading. Reports. Course IV. — Methods in History. Course II. or III. is a prerequisite.. Second Semester. — One hour. (Not given in 1911-12). ECONOMICS Course I. — Introductory. A prerequisite to, all other courses in economics. A brief study of the fundamental laws of economic science and of the application of economic prin- ciples to practical problems. Among the topics considered will be value, capital, wages, interest, profit, rent, money and bank- ing, labor laws, labor organizations, taxation and finance, so- cialism, transportation, monopoly, municipal ownership. First Semester. — Three hours. Second Semester. — Three hours. Text-book. Collateral reading. Course II. — Labor Problems and Labor Organizations. A study of the aims, ideals, methods and evolution of organized