Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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12 THE LLAMARADA then courses in the three Romance tongues have been regularly given, Spanish alternating with Italian. During these six years the total number of courses offered has increased from seventeen to twenty-three, the numbers taking them have been augmented in proportion, and there are now three instructors in addition to the head of the department and the tutor. The department aims to give, beyond and above the practical use ol the tongues, a knowledge of the thought-life expressed in their literatures. Mary Vance Young, I h.IX, Professor of Romance Languages. Ph.D., University of Zurich; Sorbonne; Ecole des Hautes Etudes; College de France; Ecole des Chartes; Member of the Modern Language Association of America, of the Dante Society of America, of the Societe Amicale Gaston Paris, of the Maitres Phonetiques, and of the New England Modern Language Association; OHicier d Academic (conferred by French Government). South Hadley, Massachusetts Emma Rensch, Instructor Studied in Switzerland, Paris, Germany, England. New England Modern Langauge Association. South Hadley, Massachusetts Susan Almira Bacon, Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; Studied in University of Berne, Switzerland, 1905-06; studied in Geneva, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Yale University. 294 Elm Street, New Haven, Connecticut Mary Gertrude Cushing, M.A., Instructor M.A., Wellesley; Student of Romance Literature and Philology at Columbia University, New York, and in Paris 1901-05; Studied in France and Spain 1907-08. Hotel Regent, New York City Edith Fahnestock, B.L., Instructor B.L., Western Reserve University; Zurich; Sorbonne; Bryn Mawr; Fellow in Romance Philology, Bryn Mawr; Head of the Modern Language Department in the Steele College for Girls, Columbus, Mississippi; member of the Modern Language Association of America. 2D?partmcnt of German German was added to the seminary course as an optional study in 1846. The catalogue of 1876 77 states that French and German may not be substituted lor any required study, but that a certificate will be given for the completion of the four-years course in either modern language. German is first included in the prescribed course in 1877, when it is made optional with French for one year. In 1887 the

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THK LLAMARADA 11 Helen M. SearLES, Ph.D., Professor M.A., Lake Forest; Ph.D., University of Chicago; Cornell University; Instructor in Greek and German, Ferry Hall Seminary, 1889-94; Classical Fellow Cornell, 1S94-95; Fellow in Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Chicago, 1895—98; Instructor in Latin and Greek at Pennsylvania College for Women, 1898-99; Member of the Archaeological Institute, of the Philological Association, of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, and of the New England Classical Association. South Hadley, Massachusetts Helen Elizabeth Hoag, B.A., Associate Professor B.A., Cornell University; Graduate Scholar at Cornell University, 1894-95; American School of Archaeology, Athens, 1900-01; Columbia University 1906 07; Instructor in Greek, Elmira College, 1895-1900; Cornell Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; Member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, of the Archaeological Institute of America, of the American Philological Association, and of the Classical Association of New England. Ithaca, New York Vivian Blanche Small, M.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; M.A., University of Chicago; Member of the New England Classical Association. Richmond, Maine Caroline Morris Galt, B.A., Instructor B.A., Bryn Mawr; University of Chicago; Instructor in Greek and Latin, Pennsylvania College for Women, 1898—1903; Member of the New England Classical Association. Marion, Virginia Grace Elvina Hadlev, B.A., Reader B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Instructor in Latin and Greek at Lyndon Hall, Poughkeepsie, New York. Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Department of ilomanre Hauguageo In the early days of the institution the departments of French and German were united, and lor some years there was but one instructor, who took charge of all the work in modern languages. The departments were divided in the scholastic year 1887-88. Four courses in French were then offered, representing as many years’work. In i8qi 92 (the last year of the combined seminary and college system) six courses in French were offered. In 1894 95 an additional instructor began to aid in the two departments; in 1897 98 that work also was div ided, and there were two persons in each. Italian and Spanish courses began to figure in the catalogue in 1894-95, but were not given regularly. Miss M. V. Young was called to the chair of Romance languages in 1901. Miss Emma Rensch coming at the same time. Since

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THE LLAMARADA 3 department begins its separate existence and German is required of all students for two terms. With the establishment of the college course in 1888, it is required for entrance, and is prescribed for the scientific and literary courses until their abolishment in 1902. The teaching force has grown as follows: one full instructor, 1887-93; 1893-97, an added instructor is shared with French; 1897-1900, two full instructors; 1900-03, three; 1903 to the present, four. The number of courses offered has increased from the first small beginnings to eight courses 1888 93; eleven, 1893-97; ten, 1897-1900; twenty-one, 1900 to the present time. Ellen Clakinda Hinsdale, Ph.D., Professor B.A., Western Reserve University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Gottingen; University of Leipzig; University of Berlin; Member of the Modern Language Association of America, of the New England Modern Language Association, and of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges; Phi Beta Kappa Society; Instructor in German in Joliet, III., and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan Alice Porter Stevens, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., Mount Holyoke; M.A., Radcliffe; University of Zurich; University of Berlin; Member of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the New England Modern Language Association. Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts Paula Hofer, Instructor University of Berlin; Dresden; Berlin; Italy; Lecturer on Art and Literature in Berlin; ’Teachers State Examination for Saxony; Assistant Principal of Girls’ School in Dresden, Germany. South Hadley, Massachusets Grace M. Bacon, B.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; Harvard University; University of Berlin; Member of the Modern Language Association. South Hadley, Massachusetts Department of £nglisli literature For the first twenty years of Mount Holyoke Seminary, Milton’s Paradise Lost seems to have formed the literary pabulum of the students in the last of the three-years course. That early statement, ‘“The young ladies are requested to bring with them standard works in Poetry, especially Pope’s Essay on Man and Milton’s Paradise Lost,” might have included also Young’s Night Thoughts during two of these early years, when these three classics seem to have been required. 1 hough Pope and Young disappear from the “list of studies” in the catalogue, Milton suffered hut one partial interregnum, in 1847-48 when Paradise Lost with Butler’s Analogy was starred as “not strictly required of those who have a good knowledge of Latin.”