Cornell College - Royal Purple Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IA)

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-TULIA PATTON, A. B. Department of English Language and Literature C. D. STEVENS, Professor JULIA PATTON, Instructor WINIFRED HAYS, Instructor The English Department is endeavoring to interpret literary culture as a power, rather than ammere ornament of life. To this end all study of letters is closely associated with the life of the race and the experience of the individual. WVhile courses in literature' are planned to develop aes- thetic pleasure as far as the tastes and temperament of individual students will permit, their prime aim is to impart an intelligent and sympathetic insight into the life of the spirit. While the courses in rhetoric and prose composition give due attention to accuracy and propriety in the use of the English language, they lay especial emphasis upon independence of sell'-expression, with its resultant sincerity of thought and feeling. Wheth- er in the 'felicitous work of supreme literary artists, or in the crude historic examples of literary types, or in the immature etforts of students, there is constantly sought, beyond the interesting and indispensable study of laiurrlage and technique, the more vital knowledge of the source of all truth and beauty, the Ifeczr! of mcm.

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'SlVl'CZQ1'l23,1lClQ political philosophy, treating of generalizations and theories of the science of politics and considering briefly political ethics and the history of political theoriesg internatioinal law and diplfoniecy, with pm-- ticular attention to cases in which the United States has been diijectlv interested. The aiin of the Work is the cultivation of breadth of View and sound tliinking on governmental iancl political questions, the promotion of good citizenship, preparation for the study of law end for teaching civil governnient, and e training which shell he helpful in the direction of honorable and useful service on the ,part of those who may subsequently enter public life.. - c . i N L W .- w,:3,,i -r. Qu g 67141 1, iiirqc , f 3? fag - - , in f o 4, Km' . ,I - 'i K ' i gri n, , K : , fl, ..,.,,.r 71 . Qs .- - . ,ui f :J FK l i c ' gi im P gy

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' W7IN-.I'FRE'D C. Have, A. B-,. The Qurficulum of the English lclepartment offsets coourses in' rhetoric and olomlposition., languageu, and literature, but no halid.6L11d fast lil1GS of ,demarcation are drawn between any two of these phases of 'English inf struction. Composition courses contain fS,O1Il6'l literary interpretation, afforded by the study of modern essays, fiction, playsg language courses mover neglect the :appreciation of literary lqualltiog readings from Old and Middle Englishg and llteiratune courses call ooI1s1ta11tlatten- tion to the relation of the sword to the thollght, and the Qrgaiiic Dgfmlre-'Qf structure and style. t L . Students Whoo are interested in liteliature as an art may have Work lin the poetry of the nineteenth olentury, in in Shakspoere, and Milton and lthe1Glassiois1ts Those who are llotlintoetested BJG513hG1'P ics, but Wish to know JChG2't1llOllg'117fJSVOf great minded, and to have la more-yitlol revelation of the life and ideas of different ages of English Givililziatiolu, will fmd that COHSiClGI7B5blQ'2LfJDGIltClOl1 is devoted to political, social and religious' activities of each age represented poets referred to above- For sltydents of history or philosophy or social ectenclel, there loffered la oourse nilletooatlleclentury prose, iilcludingjthe study of Carlyle, Thackeray, Ruskin, Matthew Amold, and zothemfs, and devoting almost leiiclusive attention to the social ideas of these alltlloiss. , Alcoves in English and American literlaturezh endowedfrespectivelyoby the AGSfh9Si3H and Ph'i1O'If12L'Cht-BEUI1 Liteiwaliy Societies, afford some facilities for advanced Work in English.