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

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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

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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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me ccnmanann Department of History t In the early days of the seminary a brief outline of general history and a course in ecclesiastical history appear among the ornamental branches required of all students. United States History was from the first required for admission, and a commendable stress was laid on ancient and modern geography. Between l860 and i870 a distinct advance was made by the Introduction of a constitutional text-book : and coincident with the coming of Miss Prentiss in I866, the abolition of the older text-book system and the extension of the general outline course to two years, mark a method of historical study much more liberal than was at all common in those days. The philosophy of history was emphasized and the student was led to reliectf' MISS NEILSON ,lust as Miss Prentiss laid down the general lines for the two full years in mediaeval and modern history included in the present course, so Miss Soule, coming in IS96, gave the first great stimulus to the study of constitutional and economic history. It is the aim of the present department to continue the tradition established by Miss Prentiss and Miss Soule, adding those more specialized and advanced courses which the growth of the college has made possible. Elizabeth Barstow Prentiss, M.A., Emeritus Professor B.A.. lVl.A., Mount Holyoke. Langdon, New Hampshire. Nellie Neilson, Ph.D., Professor B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr: Fellow in History, Bryn Mawr: Holder of the American Fellowship of the A.C.A. Cambridge, England: London: Oxford: Member of the American Historical Association. 2016 Locust Street, Philadephia, Pennsylvania Ellen Deborah Ellis, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr: Graduate Student, Bryn Mawr, l90l-l902, l903-l904: Holder of Bryn Mawr European Fellowship, and Student at Leipzig, 1902-l903g Fellow in Economics and Politics, Bryn Mawr. l904-l905: Member ofthe American Historical Associa tion, of the American Economic Association, and of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. John C D Lecturer 2319 Green Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania A.B., Ph.D., John's Hopkins University: Phi Beta Kappa Society: Member of American Historical Society, and of the American Political Science Society: Instructor in Smith College. . N h , M , Margaret Shove Morriss, B.A., Instructor on amplon assachuseus B.A., Goucher College: Bryn Mawr, 1904-1906: Holder.of Alumnae Fellowship, Goucher College, and Student in London, l906, I907: Fellow in History Bryn Mawn, 1907-l908: Phi Beta Kappa Society: Member of American Historical Association. 1904 Mount Royal Terrace, Baltimore, Maryland. Bertha Haven Putnam, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., Bryn Mawr: Ph.D., Columbia University: London: Member of American Economic Association, of American Historical Association, of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, of Women's University Club, New York: and of Academic Committee of Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association, 335 West 86th Street, New York, New York. Gertrude Edgerton Knox, B.A., Reader B.A., Mount Holyoke: Phi Beta Kappa Society. I2 Creighton Street, Providence, Rhode Island. 25