Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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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.

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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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YEAR BOOK 31 ECONOMICS. Course I. — Introductory. A prerequisite to all other courses in economics. A brief study of the fundamental laws of economic science and the application of economic principles to practical problems. Among the topics considered will be value, capital, wages, interest, profit, rent, money and banking, labor laws, labor organizations, taxation and finance, socialism, transportation, mon- opoly, municipal ownership. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10:00. First Semester: Three hours. Second Semester: Three hours Text book. Collateral read- ing. Course II. — Labor Problems and Labor Organizations. A study of the aims, ideals, methods and evolution of organized labor in the United States. Unemployment. Wages. Standard of living. Child and woman labor. Strikes. Arbitration. Immigration. Profit-sharing. Co-operation. Industrial education. Recent ten- dencies. Frst Semester : Four hours. Lectures. Text book. Collateral reading. Reports. (Not given in 1912-1913.) Course III. — Economic Problems. Custom and Competition. Trusts and Combinations — history, benefits and evils of trusts, methods of control, etc. Railways — history, organization, theory of rates, state and national control, etc. Agricultural Economics. First Semester : Four hours. Lectures. Text book. Collateral reading. Reports. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs- days at 11:00. Course IV. — Socialism and Social Reform. Communism. Social- ism. Christian Socialism. Anarchism. The Single Tax Movement. The Social Work Program. Second Semester : Two hours. Lectures. Text book. Col- lateral reading. Tuesdays ?vA Thursdays at 11:00. Course V. — Taxation and Finance, Governmental Expenditures. History and Theory of Taxation. The General Property Tax. The Land Tax. Income and Inheritance Taxes. The Single Tax. Tax Reform. Public Debts. Financial Administration. Second Semester: Three hours. Text book. Lectures. Col- lateral reading. Reports. (Not given in 1912-1913.) Course VI. — Elementary Statistics. The theory of statistics.