Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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zne niznmnnmm Q Department of German German was added to the seminary course as an optional study in 1846. The catalogue of 1876-1877 stated that French and German might not be substituted for any required study, but that a certificate would be given for the completion of the four years' course in either modern language. In 1887 the department began its separate existence and German was required of all students for two terms. With the establishment of the college course in 1888, it was required for entrance, and was prescribed for the scientific and literary courses until their abolishment in 1902. The teaching force has grown as fol- lows: one full instructor, 1887-1893: during the years 1893- Mlss HINSDALE 1897 an added instructor, shared with the French department: 1897-1900 two full instructors: 1900-1903, three: 1903 to the present time, four. The number of courses offered has increased from the first small beginnings to eight courses 1888-1893: eleven, 1893-1897: ten, 1897-1900: twenty-one, 1900-1908. Ellen Clarinda Hinsdale, Ph.D., Professor B.A., Western Reserve University: M.A., University of Michigan: Ph.D., University of Giittingen: University of Leipzig: University of Berlin: Member of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the New England Modern Language Association: Phi Beta Kappa Society: Instructor in German in Joliet, Illinois, and in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Alice Porter Stevens, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., Mount Holyoke: M.A., Radcliffe: University of Ziirich: University of Berlin: Member of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the New England Modern Language Association. Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Grace Mabel Bacon, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke: M.A., University of 'Michigan: University of Berlin: Member of Modern Language Association of New England: Ph.D., University of Michigan. Dorchester, Massachusetts. Emma Gertrude -Iaeclc, Ph.D., Instructor M.A., University of Wisconsin: B.L., University of lllinois: Ph.D., University of lllinois: Instructor in German, State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Scholarship and Thesis Honors at University of Wisconsin 1902-1903: Scholarship at Willard School for Girls in Berlin, Germany, 1905-1906: University of Berlin: Fellow in German, University of lllinois, 1907- I9l0: lnstructor in German, Brodhead, Wisconsin, and Monmouth, Illinois: Assistant in German, University of lllinois: Phi Beta Kappa Society: Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Omro, Wisconsin Edith St. Clair Palmer, B.A., Reader B.A., Mount Holyoke: Phi Beta Kappa Society. South Hadley, Massachusetts. 22 .JL

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zne atznmnannn ,554 Department of Romance Languages . In the early days of Mount Holyoke Seminary one instructor took charge of all the work in modern languages: but in ISS7-l888 the departments of French and German were separated. Four courses in French were then offered, repre- senting as many years' work. In l89l-l892 six courses were Given, and in 1897-l898 an additional instructor was found necessary. Italian and Spanish courses began to figure in the catalogue in 1894-1895, but were not given regularly until l9OI. when Miss Mary Vance Young was called to the chair of Romance Languages. At the present time the Italian courses alternate with the Spanish. During the last seven years the total number of courses offered has increased from seventeen to twenty-three, with a proportionate increase ln the number of students electing them. The department aims to give, beyond and in-bove the practical use of the tongue, a knowledge of the thought life expressed in their lterature. MISS YOUNG Mary Vance Young, Ph.D., Professor Ph.D.. University of Ziiricl1:Sorbonne: Escole des Hautes Etudes: College de Franceg Ecole des Charles: Member of the Modern Language Association of America, of the Dante Society of America, of the Societe Amicale Paris. of the Maitres Phoneliques, and of the New England Moclcrn Language Association: Officier d'Acad6mie fconferrcd by French Governmentj South Hadley, Massachusetts. Mary Gertrude Cushing, Ph.D., Associate Professor M.A.. Wellesley: Student of Romance Literature and Philology at Columbia University, and in Paris, 1901-1905: Studied in France and Spain, i907-l908. Hotel Regent, New York, New York. Emma Riville-Rensch, Associate Professor Studied in Switzerland, Paris, Germany, England: Member of Modern Language Association. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Susan Almira Bacon, B.A., Associate Professor B.A., Mount Hoyokeg Studied in University of Berne, Switzerland, 1905-19065 Studied in Geneva, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg. Yale University. l3l Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut. 21

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if ZEC EEHMHRHDH Department of English Literature For the first twenty years of Mount Holyoke Seminary Milton's Paradise Lost seems to have formed the literary pabulum of the students. Great attention was also paid to the study of Pope's Essay on Man. and Young's Night Thoughts. Though the last to disappear from the list of studies in the catalogue, Milton suffered but one partial interregnum in l847-l848, when Paradise Lost, with Butler's Analogy, was starred as not strictly required of those who have a good knowledge of Latin. ln i858-l859 a course in the history of literature was introduced and required of Seniors. This general history fdeveloping later in ancient literature, oriental, classical, and mediaevalj, remained a part of every student's course, till the end of the Seminary itself. The history of English Literature was required for the third year of the course in IS64- IS65, and was soon given into the hands of Miss Bowers, who for twenty-five years conducted this department. She very early worked out the laboratory method of study, most desirable in those days when cheap editions of authors from Chaucer to Words- worth did not exist. With the offering of electives in ISS7-1888 and a well-defined four years' course, beginning with Old and Middle English, in l890-l89l, the history of the Seminary ends and that of the College begins. Ellen Priscilla Bowers, Emeritus Professor Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Massachusetts. lfleannette A. Marks, M.A., Associate Professor B-A.. M.A., Wellesley: Oxford University, London, Lyceum Club. South Hadley, Massachusetts Helen May Cady, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A,, Wellesleyg Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Mansfield, Massachusetts. Dorothy Foster, M.A., Instructor B.A., Bryn Mawr: M.A., Radcliffe. 137 Walnut Street, Newtonville, Massachusetts. Carrie Anna Harper, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., M.A., Radcliffeg Ph.D., Bryn Mawr: Fellow in English, Bryn Mawr. Sunderland, Massachusetts. Laura Alandis Hibbard, M.A., Instructor B.A. M.A., Wellesleyg Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship, l9lO-l9ll. ll5I Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois. Louise Dudley, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., Georgetown College: Ph.D,, Bryn Mawr. Georgetown, Kentucky, Elsie G. May, M.A., Instructor Honors in School of English Language and Literature, Oxford Universityg M.A., University of Birmingham: British Scholar at Bryn Mawr. - 56 Trafalgar Road, Moseley, Birmingham, England. Margaretta Martin, B.A., Reader B.A., Mount Holyokeg Phi Beta Kappa Society. 1.-WW-W 56 Whitney Street, Hartford, Connecticut. 'On leave of absence for the year. 23