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

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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

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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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HIE LLAMARADA 15 Department of £ngli$() The first catalogue gives among entrance requirements, “An acquaintance with the general principles of English Grammar ' and for the three years of the seminary course, English Grammar, Newman’s Rhetoric, and Whateley’s. In 1838 39 Pope’s Essay on Man was added to the first year; Young’s Night Thoughts to the second, and Paradise Lost to the third. The catalogue of 18+0 41 has this note: “It is very desirable that the members of this class (Senior) should he so well prepared lor admission, that they may devote more time to composition and receive more instruction on the subject than the members of the lower classes. English has always been an entrance requirement. Until 1896 -97 it was also required through the four years, except that for students in the scientific course, from 1893 to 1896, it was omitted from the Junior year. From 1896 to 1901, prescribed work was confined to the first two years. In 1901 02 the Junior requirement was restored, but with an option of courses. In 1896-97 three teachers and one assistant gave the two required andjfour elective courses. The first elective was offered in 1887-88. The current year seventeen courses are offered by a teaching force consisting of a professor, two associate professors, three instructors, and a reader and tutor. Clara Frances Stf.vens, Ph.M., Professor Mount Holyoke; Ph.M., University of Michigan; Member of New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, and of New England Association of Teachers of English. Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts Margaret Ball, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A., Mount Holyoke; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Westfield, Massachusetts Ada Laura Snell, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Mount Holyoke; Yale; University of Chicago. 53 South Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, New York Flora Bridges, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Oberlin; University of Zurich; University of Chicago. Helen May Cady, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Wellesley; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Mansfield, Massachusetts