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

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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

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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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for me-ccamnnasn Department of English The first catalogue gives among entrance requirements, An acquaintance with the general principles of English Gram- mar, and for the three years of the seminary course, English Grammar, Newman's Rhetoric, and Whate1ey's. The cata- logue of 1840-1841 has this note: It is very desirable that the members of this class fSeniorQ should be so well pre- pared for admission, that they may devote more time to com- position and receive more instruction on the subject than the members of the lower classes. English has always been an entrance requirement. Until 1896-1897 it was also required through the four years, except that for students in the scientific course, from 1893-1896 it was omitted from the junior year. From 1896-1901 prescribed work was confined to the First two years. In 1901-1902 the Junior requirement was restored, but with an option of courses. In 1896-1897 three teachers and one assistant gave the two required and four elective courses. The first elec- tive was offered in 1887-1888. The current year seventeen courses are offered by a leaching force consisting of a professor, two associate professors, three instructors, and a reader. The time of two other instructors is divided between the departments of English Literature and English.. MISS STEVENS I. English Clara Frances Stevens, Ph.M., Professor Mount Holyoke: Ph.M., University of Michigan: Member of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and of New England Association of Teachers of English. V Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Margaret Ball, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A., Mount Holyoke: M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Westheld, Massachusetts. Ada Laura Snell, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Mount Holyoke: Yale University: University of Chicago. , ' 192 Culver Road, Rochester, New York. Caroline Foote Lester, M.A., Instructor B.S., M.A., Columbia University. Seneca Falls, New Yorlc. Flora Bridges, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Oberlin: University of Zurich: University of Chicago. Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Ethel Sturtevant, A.B., Instructor A.B., Wellesley. 749 Myrtle Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Miriam Hunt Thrall, B.A., Reader B.A., Wellesley. 139 Dwight Street, New Haven, Connecticut. II. Voice Training Isadelle Caroline Couch, Instructor National School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia: School of Expression, Boston. ' 124