Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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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,

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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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30 ALBION COLLEGE Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night ' s Dream, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing. Only open to those who have had English I and Oratory I. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 :00. The Oratorical Association of Albion College each year sends representatives to four state oratorical contests : The Men ' s Inter-Collegiate State Contest, the Woman ' s Inter-Collegiate State Contest, the State Peace Contest, and the State Prohibition Contest. Each year the Association also conducts three inter-collegiate debates. Students wishing to participate in any of these are urged to take Oratory I as early in their course as possible. HISTORY. Course I. — History of Europe. From the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Twentieth Century. About one-third of the course will be devoted to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Particular attention will be given to eco- nomic and social progress in the various European countries. (Not given in 1912-1913.) First Semester : Three hours. Second Semester : Three hours. Text books. Collateral read- ing. Lectures. Course .—American History. Emphasis will be laid upon the influence of geographic conditions in American history, the de- velopment of our constitutional system, the industrial progress of the nation, its tariff history, the anti-slavery agitation and the problems connected with the reconstruction. A. Second Semester: Four hours. (Not given in 1912-1913.) B. First Semester : Four hours. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8:30. C. Second Semester : Three hours. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8:30. Text books. Lectures. Collateral reading. Reports. Course III. — English History. Particular attention will be given to the constitutional and economic history of England. First Semester: Four hours. Text books. Lectures. Col- lateral reading. Reports. (Not given in 1912-1913.) Course IV. — Methods in History. Course II or III is a pre- requisite. Second Semester : One hour. Fridays at 8 :30.