Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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School of JMusic Joseph Maclean, Director, Piano, Organ and Theory. Miss Margaret Klebs, Voice Culture and Sight-Reading Miss Pauline Jennings, Piano and Musical History. Miss Maud Powell, Piano. Miss Anna E. Hunt, Violin. Wm. 0. Barnwell, Mandolin and Guitar. School of Hrt Miss Emma G. Buck, Painting ana Drawing W. S. Kendrick, M.D., Physician to Institute. MRS. E. P. Hull, Intendant of Infirmary. Miss Rebecca Smith, Domestic Department. Mr. W. D. Gilmore, Bookkeeper and Secretary. Left on account of illness. Her place filled by Prof. Theodore Saul. 13

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The faculty F . H. GAINES, D.D., President, Bible Course and Ethics . MISS NANNETTE HOPKINS, Lady Principal, Mathematics. Miss M. Lula McKinney, English Language and Literature. Miss Nannie R. Massie, French and History. Miss Mary D. Sheppard, Philosophy, Pedagogy and German. H. B. Arbuckle, A.M , Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Science. Miss Maud Morrow, A.B. (Univ. Miss.), Latin and Greek. Miss Anna I. Young, Assistant in Mathematics. Miss Libbie A. Alb ' , Preparatory Department. Miss Mattie E. Cook, Preparatory Department . Miss M. Melson, A.B. (Univ. Nashville), Preparatory Department and Physical Culture. Miss Clair Bidwell, Primary Department . Miss Shatteen Mitchell, Elocution.

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The Bnglisb Department EVEN the superficial student seems to realize the necessity of some training in English if she is to move in the better circles of society. As a conse- quence the English classes are always full. In the English Department at Agnes Scott such training is given as enables the student to talk intelligently on the oft-recurring literary topics of the day. In the Freshman year is begun a systematic study of the best English literature. The principles of Rhetoric, discussed and illustrated in written exercises, form a part of the first year ' s work. That this necessary frame-work ma}- not become monotonous, it alternates with a study of those two authors who never fail to appeal to young students — Irving and Scott ; and later is begun a careful study of the life and works of Keats and of Tennyson ; nor is our own sweet Southern poet, Sidney Lanier, forgotten, a collection of his poems, edited with an appreciative introduction and notes by Morgan Calloway, forming an attractive part of the Freshman ' s work. In the Sophomore year the study of Rhetoric is continued and completed, special attention being directed to paragraph structure. The literary work of this year carries the student back to the springtime of English Literature, to the age of Chaucer through the period made brilliant by Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare to the Puritan poet, Milton. A study of the men and women drawn by the world ' s greatest character painter, and a discussion of the solution by this master mind of world problems, form not the least inspiring and instructive part of the second year ' s work. The Junior year is devoted entirely to the study of the best English prose, selections from Addison, Burke, De Quincy, Coleridge, Newman and Matthew Arnold being studied with special refeience to style. As the stud}- of each of these stylists is completed, an essay discussing the style of the author is required. If there be such a thing as conscious or unconscious influence from contact with great minds manifested in their works, surely the Junior literary student can not escape it. An instructive study from Arnold ' s Essays on Criticism occupies the last month of the Junior year. A knowledge of real criticism, what it should be, its spirit, and what it requires to be a true critic, is useful and necessary to all, but especially to the college student who, as connected with college journalism, is too often ready to hurl philippics at unoffending exchanges without discrimination.