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

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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

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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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i6 THE LLAMA RADA Elizabeth Girdler Evans, B.A., Instructor B.A., Wellesley; Harvard Summer School; Fellow in History at University of Pennsylvania; Member of American Historical Association. Edith Gertrude Reeves, B.A., Reader B.A., University of South Dakota; Radcliffe; Member of American Political Science Association. Vermillion, South Dakota Department of Ifttftorp In the early years of the seminary a brief outline of general history and a course in ecclesiastical history appear among the “ornamental branches required of all students. United States History was from the first required for admission, and a commendable stress was laid on ancient and modern geography. Between i860 and 1870 a distinct advance was made by the introduction of a ‘‘constitutional textbook,” soon changing into a study of the Constitution of the United States; and, coincident with the coming of Miss Prentiss in 1866, the abolition of the older textbook system, and the extension of the general outline course to two years, mark a method of historical study much more liberal than was at all common in those days. Fhe “philosophy of history was emphasized, and the student was led to reflect.” Just as Miss Prentiss laid down the general lines for the two full years in mediaeval and modern history included in the present course, so Miss Soule, coming in 1896, gave the first great stimulus to the study of constitutional and economic history. It is the aim of the present department to continue the tradition established by Miss Prentiss and Miss Soule, adding those more specialized and advanced courses which the growth ot the college has made possible. Elizabeth Barstow Prentiss, M.A., Emeritus Professor B.A., M.A., Mount Holyoke. South Hadley, Massachusetts Nellie Neilson, Ph.D., Professor B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; Fellow in History, Bryn Mawr; Holder of the American Fellowship of rhe A. C. A. Cambridge, England; London; Member of American Historical Association. Ardmore, I ennsyl vania Ellen Deborah Ellis, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; University of Leipzig; Fellow in Economics and Politics at Bryn Mawr; Member of the American Historical Association, of the American Economic Association, and of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. 2319 Green Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania