Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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ADELPHI COLLEGE. 21 guage, Brooke’s History of Early English Literature, Ten Brink’s Early English Literature, Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary. Optional, Junior and Senior Years, alternating with Course 2. 2. Middle English: From Orm to Langland. References: Morris’ Specimens of Early English, Part I; Morris’ and Skeat’s Specimens of Early English. Part II; Ten Brink’s English Literature, Vol. II. Optional, Junior and Senior Years, alternating with Course 1. Department of the French Language and Literature. 1. Seventeenth Century French Literature. Lectures: Spanish and Italian influences; rise of the French Drama; development of the French Tragedy; Comedy in France ; influence of the Church. Readings from the works of Corneille, Racine, Moliere Freshman Year, Literary Course, three hours a week. 2. Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Lectures: The Revolu- tion and Empire; the religious renaissance ; German and Italian influences; Romanticists and Classicists. Readings from the works of Mme. de Stael, V. Hugo, Dumas, Taine. Sophomore Year, Literary Course, three hours a week. 3. Literature of the Eighteenth Century. Comparative study of the literature of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Lectures: English influence; Voltaire’s destructive and constructive work ; the encyclopedists; Rousseau’s influence and theories of education ; diffusion of the philosophical spirit. Collateral Readings. Junior Year, Classical Literary Courses, three hours a week. 4. Origins of French Literature. Lectures: General view of the Sixteenth Century; comparison of the French and Italian Renaissance; the period of the Reformation; French language in the Sixteenth Century. Readings from contemporary literature: Balzac, Guizot, Daudet, Loti. Senior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a week. Students who wish to begin French after entering College will be assigned to classes in the usual introductory work. Department of German. 1. Comparative Study of Schiller and Goethe. Ballads, dramas (Goetz, Wallenstein), prose works (Dichtung und Warheit, der dreissig- jaehrige Krieg). Original essays and compositions. Freshman Year, three hours a week. 2. Historical Dramas (in conjunction with the work in history). Emilia Galotti, Kabale und Liebe, Don Carlos. Scheffel’s Trompeter von Sakkingen. Original essays and compositions. Sophomore Year, three hours a week. 3. German History and Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Lectures (in German), study of German works of reference, miscellaneous reading. Original essays and compositions. Junior Year, three hours a week.

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20 ADELPHI COLLEGE. COURSES OF STUDY. Department of English Literature. 1. Origins of Modern English Literature: Poetry and prose of Eng- land from the fourteenth century to the Elizabethan age, with special atten- tion to the works of Chaucer, Malory and Spenser ; together with some study of the development of the language. Rhetoric and composition. References: Ten Brink’s English Literature, Morley’s English Writers, Skeat’s Speci- mens of English Literature, Vol. Ill; Lounsbury’sEnglish Language; works of the authors studied. Freshman Year, Literary Course, three hours a week. 2. History of English Literature and the Elizabethan Drama : Survey of the literature from its beginning, together with assigned collateral readings; the plays of Shakspere and his contemporaries. Essays. References : Stopford Brooke’s English Literature, Taine’s Eng- lish Literature, Saintsbury’s History of Elizabethan Literature, Ward’s Eng- lish Poets, Ward’s History of English Dramatic Literature, Symonds’ Shakespeare’s Predecessors, Rolfe’s Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays, the Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists. Sophomore Year, Classical, Literary and Scientific Courses, three hours a week. 3. Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Literature : A criti- cal study of English literature from Pope to Keats, showing the decay of the critical school and the rise and progress of the revolutionary and transcend- ental school. Themes. References : Principally the works of the authors studied ; also Gosse’s History of Eighteenth Century Literature, Leslie Stephen’s History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Mrs. Oli- phant’s Literary History of England, Dowden’s Studies in Literature, Saints- bury’s History of Nineteenth Century Literature, Lives of the Authors dis- cussed in the English Men of Letter Series and in the Great Writers Series. Junior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a week. 4. Victorian Literature: A critical study of the works of the chief poets and essayists of this period. Themes. References : As in the preced- ing course, the most important books are the works of the authors them- selves; Saintsbury’s History of Nineteenth Century Literature, Stedman’s Victorian Poets, Mrs. Oliphant’s The Victorian Age of English Literature, Dowden’s Transcripts and Studies, Morley’s English Literature. Senior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a week. Department of English Language. 1. Old English: A course in Old English Grammar and Translation. References: Bright’s Anglo-Saxon Reader, Smith’s Old English Grammar, Lounsbury’s English Language, Emerson’s History of the English Lan-

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22 ADELPHI COLLEGE. 4. Elements of Middle-High German (Otis). Reading of selections from the Nibelungenlied and the Minnesingers—first half year. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, and Goethe’s Faust (selections)—second half year. Lectures (in German). Original essays and compositions. Senior Year, three hours a week. Students who wish to begin German after entering College will be assigned to classes in the usual introductory work. Department of the Greek Language and Literature. 1. Attic Prose Authors—Selections. References: Dyers Apol- ogy and Crito; Morgan’s Lysias. Freshman Year, first semester, four hours a week. 2. Homer. Later books of Iliad, selections, or Odyssey, V-VIII. References: Lawton’s Art and Humanity in Homer; Perrin’s Odyssey, V- VIII. Freshman Year, second semester, four hours a week. 3. Drama. One play each of Eschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aris- tophanes. Lectures. Sophomore Year, four hours a week. 4. Attic Prose. Thucydides, Plato, Demosthenes, selections. Refer- ences: Morris’ Thucydides, I, Towle’s Protagoras, Tarbell’s Demosthenes. Junior Year, four hours a week. 5. General History of Greek Literature, with readings from the less familiar authors. References: Jevons’ History of Greek Literature, or Jebb’s Spirit of Greek Literature. Senior Year, three hours a week. Department of the Latin Language and Literature. 1. Horace. Selected epodes and odes. Autobiographical extracts from the satires and epistles, Lectures on Augustan age and Horace’s life. References: Sellar’s Roman Poets of the Augustan age, Martin’s Horace, Macleane’s Horace. Freshman Year, Classical and Literary Courses, first semester, four hours a week. 2. Livy. Books XXI-XXII, selections, or Books I-II, selections. Freshman Year, Classical and Literary Courses, second semester, four hours a week. 3. Silver Latin. Juvenal, Pliny, Quintilian, Tacitus, selections. Soph- omore Year, Classical and Literary Courses, four hours a week. 4. Early Latin. Catullus and Lucretius, selections. Plautus and Ter- ence, one play each. References: Sellar's Latin Poets of the Republic, Merrill’s Catullus, Kelsey’s Lucretius. Junior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, four hours a week. 5. Lectures on the Life of the La'iin Language and Literature, with readings from less familiar authors and fragments of lost works. References: Cruttwell’s or Tyrrell’s Latin Literature, Merry’s Selections from Latin Poets. Senior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a week.