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

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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.”

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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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1 + TOE LLAMARADA It was in 1858-59 that a course in the history of literature was introduced, required of Seniors, specified the next year as SchlegePs History of Literature. I his general history, long conducted by Miss Edwards, (developing later into ancient literature, Oriental, classical, and mediaeval), remained a part of every seminary student's course till the end of the seminary itself. The history of English literature was required in 1864 -65 in the third year of the four-years course. This was soon given into the hands of Miss Ellen P. Bowers, who for twenty-five years conducted this department. She very early worked out the laboratory method of study, in those days when cheap editions were not applying to authors from Chaucer to Wordsworth, the same kind of first-hand study, a thorough reading of literature, that her inspired teacher, Miss Tolman, had used with Paradise Lost. With the offering of electives in the subject in 1887-88 and a well-defined four-years course, beginning with Old and Middle English in 1890-91, the history of the seminary ends and that of the college begins. Ellen Priscilla Bowers, Emeritus Professor Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Massachusetts Bertha Kedzie Young, B.A., Professor B.A., Vassar; Oxford University; Head of English Department in W heaton Seminary, 1896-1901. South Hadley, Massachusetts Jeanette A. Marks, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Wellesley; Oxford University; London; Lyceum Club. South Hadley, Massachusetts Katharine Jackson, Ph.D., Instructor M.A., Ohio Wesleyan; Ph.D., Columbia University; State College, Lexington, Kentucky; Yale University; Instructor in English, Belhaven, Connecticut; Member of the Modern Language Association of America. Carrie Anna Harper, M.A., Instructor B.A., RadcliHe; M.A., RadclifTe; Bryn Mawr; Instructor in English at Gilman School, Cambridge. Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts Clara Louise Stafford, B.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Phi Beta Kappa 120 Butler Street, Lawrence, Masaehussetts