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

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he LJa-marai» Department of English Literature For the first twenty years of Mount Holyoke Seminary Milton’s Paradise Lost seems to have formed the literary pab- ulum of the students. Great attention was also paid to the study of Pope’s Essay on Man, and Young’s Night 7 houghts. Though the last two disappear from the “list of studies” in the catalogue, Milton suffered but one partial interregnum, in 1847-1848, when Paradise Lost, with Butler’s Analogy, was starred as “not strictly required of those who have a good knowledge of Latin.” In 1858-9 a course in the history of literature was introduced and required of Seniors. This gen- eral history (developing later in ancient literature, oriental, classical and mediaeval), remained a part of every student’s MISS YOUNG course till the end of the Seminary itself. The history of English literature was required for the third year of the course in 1864-1865, and was soon given into the hands of Miss Bowers, who for twenty-five years conducted this department. She very early worked out the laboratory method of study, most desirable in those days when cheap editions of authors from Chaucer to Wordsworth did not exist. With the offering of electives in 1887-1888 and a well-defined four years’ course beginning with Old and Middle English, in 1890-1891, 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. 83 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jeannette A. Marks, M.A., Associate Professor; Acting Head of Department B.A., Wellesley; Oxford University; London Lyceum Club; Associate Elector of College Settlements Association; Member of National Geographic Society. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Helen May Cady, M.A., Instructor B.A.. M.A., Wellesley; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Mansfield, Massachusetts. Dorothy Foster, M.A., Instructor B.A., Bryn Mawr; M.A., Radcliffe. 137 Walnut Street, Ncwtonville, Massachusetts. Carrie Anna Harper, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Radcliffe; Fellow in English. Bryn Mawr. Sunderland, Massachusetts. Laura Alandis Hibbard, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Wellesley. 1151 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois. Clara L. Stafford, B.A., Reader B.A., Mount Holyoke; Phi Beta Kappa Society. 120 Butler Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts. On leave of absence for the year. 15

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he Ll marafta Department of German German was added to the seminary course as an optional study in 1846. The catalogue of 1876-1877 stated that French and German might not be substituted for any required study, but that a certificate would be given for the completion of the four-years’ course in either modern language. In 1887 the department began its separate existence and German was required of all students for two terms. With the establishment of the college course in I 888, it was required for entrance, and was prescribed for the scientific and literary courses until their abolishment in 1902. The teaching force has grown as fol- lows: one full instructor, 1887-1893; during the years 1893- MISS HINSDALE 1897 an added instructor, shared with the French department; 1897-1900 two full instructors; 1900-1903, three; 1903 to the present time, four. The number of courses offered has increased from the first small beginnings to eight courses 1888-93; eleven, 1893-1897; ten, 1897-1900; twenty-one, 1900-1908. Ellen Clarinda Hinsdale, Ph.D., Professor B.A., Western Reserve University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D.. University of Got- tingen; University of Leipzig; University of Berlin; Member of the Modern Language Asso- ciation of America, of the New England Modern Language Association, and of the New Eng- land Association of Schools and Colleges; Phi Beta Kappa Society; Instructor in German in Joliet, Illinois, and in 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; Mem- ber of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the New England Modern Lan- guage 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; Member of Modern Language Association of New England. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Grace Mabel Bacon, B.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; Harvard University; University of Berlin; Member of the Modern Language Association. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Eunice Rathbone Goddard, M.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; M.A., Columbia University; University of Leipzig; University of Mu- nich; University of Geneva. New Salem, Massachusetts. On leave of absence for the year. 14

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The LlaxuaraOa Department of English The first catalogue gives among entrance requirements, “An acquaintance with the general principles of English Gram- mar,” and for the three years of the seminary course, English Grammar, Newman’s Rhetoric, and Whateley’s. The cata- logue of 1840-1841 has this note: “It is very desirable that the membership of this class (Senior) should be so well pre- pared for admission, that they may devote more time to com- position and receive more instruction on the subject than the members of the lower classes.” English has always been an entrance requirement. Until 1896-1897 it was also required through the four years, except that for students in the scientific MISS STEVENS course, from 1893-1896 it was omitted from the Junior year. From 1896-1901 prescribed work was confined to the first two years. In 1901-1902 the Junior requirement was restored, but with an option of courses. In 1896-1897 three teachers and one assistant gave the two required and four elective courses. I he first elec- tive was offered in 1887-1888. The current year nineteen courses are offered by a teach- ing force consisting of a professor, two associate professors, three instructors, and a reader. The time of two other instructors is divided between the departments of English Literature and English. I. English Clara Frances Stevens, Ph.M., Professor Mount Holyoke; Ph.M., University of Michigan; Member of New England Association of Colleges and Secondary 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; University of Chicago. 192 Culver Road, Rochester, New York. Helen May Cady, M.A., Instructor B. A., M.A., Wellesley; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Mansfield, Massachusetts. Flora Bridges, M.A., Instructor B.L., Mount Holyoke; University of Zurich; University of Chicago. Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Laura Alandis Hibbard, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Wellesley. 1151 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois. Caroline Foote Lester, M.A., Instructor B.S., M.A., Columbia University. Seneca Falls, New York. Florence S. Adams, B.L., Instructor B.L., Mount Holyoke; University of Zurich; University of Berlin. II. Voice Training Isadelle Caroline Couch, Instructor National School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia; School of Expression, Boston. 26 Greystone Park, Lynn, Massachusetts. 16