Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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28 ALBION COLLEGE of work in the Department of English Language. The instructor reserves the right to limit the number of this class at his discretion. Fridays at 11:00. Course V . — Debating. Three hours a week throughout the first semester. Weekly drill in speaking and the drawing of briefs upon assigned topics. Open only to those who have completed Course I. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 3:15. ENGLISH LITERATURE. Course I. — Four hours throughout the year. Tuesdays, Wed- nesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8:30. First Semester: English Literature. From the Beginning to the Revival of Romanticism. Special attention is paid to Shake- speare and Milton. Second Semester: English Literature. Periods studied include Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century in prose and poetry. In the Masterpieces the Lake Edition is preferred. Notebooks are made throughout the course. Collateral reading in the college library is required. Course II. — The Romantic Poets. Two hours. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:00. Origin and influence of the Romantic Move- ment. Classicism and Romanticism contrasted. Special study, in first semester, of Wordsworth and Byron ; in second semester, of Shelley and Keats. Course III. — Prose Masterpieces. Two hours. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30. A study of English Prose from Bacon to Emerson, supplemented by a study of the various theories of style. This course is also listed under English Language. Course IV. — The Elizabethan Drama. Three hours. A study of English Drama in the age of Queen Elizabeth, its origin and tendencies. A large number of the plays of Shakespeare and of his contemporaries and predecessors will be read and discussed. (Not given in 1912-1913.) Course V. — Victorian Poets. A. Two hours. Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:30. The character and tendencies of English Poetry in the reign of Queen Victoria. A special study of Tennyson in the first semester and of Browning in the second semester. Some attention paid to the poetry of Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne.

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YEAR BOOK 27 sation. Two hours per week throughout the year. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:15. Note. — Other Teutonic or Romance Languages may be offered if sufficient numbers present themselves for such courses. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Course I. — The Elements of Logical Composition. Three hours per week throughout the year. Required of all Freshmen. A study of the principles of rhetoric, together with practice in the construction of exposition and argumentative discourse. The work is divided equally into recitation from text, writing and criticism of standard examples of English prose. This class will be divided into three sections. Students deficient in the rudiments of composi- tion will be required to do special work to make up the deficiency, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:30, 10:00 and 11:00. Course II. — The Elements of Literary Composition. Two hours per week throughout the year. Required of all Sophomores. First Semester : A study of Persuasion ; an investigation into the laws of inducing action ; the practice of methods of winning men. This course is based on the principles of psychology under- lying the phenomenon of belief, and is an attempt to learn the rules and the practice of employing words to win approval and action. Second Semester: A study of Description and Narration from the standpoint of the laws of mental imagery and rhetorical struc- ture. Reading and criticism of novels and short stories. The work is supplemented and emphasized by a brief study of the essentials of poetry, in order to appreciate the significance and basis of the emotional element in composition, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:30 and 10:00. Course III. — A study of English Prose Style. Two hours per week throughout the year. An . inductive investigation of the Masterpieces of English Prose from Bacon to Emerson, supple- mented by a study of the various theories of style. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 :30. Coarse IV. — Writing. One hour a week throughout the year. This course is designed to furnish practice for those students who wish to develop the art of writing No limit is placed on the range of subjects. Open only to those who have had two years

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YEAR BOOK 29 Course VI.— Victorian Poets. B. Two hours. Mondays and Wednesdays at 3:15. This course will involve a careful study of Fitzgerald ' s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, some selected poems of Matthew Arnold, and Tennyson ' s In Memoriam. Special attention will be paid to the attitude displayed toward the problems of life. PUBLIC SPEAKING. Course I. — Elocution. Two hours per week throughout the year. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:15 and 3:15. First Semester : The Physical Aspects of Public Speech. Drill in pronunciation, enunciation, variety, directness, the development of vocal purity and vocal energy. Second Semester : The Intellectual and Emotional Side of Public Speech. Daily drill on Masterpieces of Oratory, with the object of cultivating appreciativeness, poise, color, melody and mastery of an audience. Course .—Two hours a week throughout the year. First Semester : A Study of Great Orators. This course combines a study of the lives and works of the world ' s greatest orators, with practice in the application of the principles of Public Speaking. Using the lives and speeches of the orators under discussion, the student presents declamations , outlines, topical speeches, and discussions of various kinds, thus putting into use the principles studied in Course I. Second Semester : Interpretation. The object of this course is to enable every student in the class to develop the kind of platform work for which he is best suited. Thus the course takes up the interpretation of poetry, dramatic reading, scenes from the drama, dialogues, and a continuation of some of the work of the first semester. Course II is open only to those who have had Course I or its equivalent and have completed English I. (Not given in 1912- 1913.) Course III. — Interpretive Reading. The class will analyze and interpret two plays of Shakespeare each semester. The plays will be chosen from the following list : Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar,