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

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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

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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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LlaroaraOa Department of History In the early days 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 text-book”; and coincident with the coming of Miss Prentiss in I 866, the abolition of the older text-book 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. The “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 1 896, 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 of the college has made possible. Elizabeth Barstow Prentiss, M.A., Emeritus Professor B.A., M.A., Mount Holyoke. Langdon, New Hampshire. Nellie Neilson, Ph.D., Professor B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; Fellow in History, Bryn Mawr; Holder of the American Fellowship of the A. C. A. Cambridge, England; London; Member of the American Historical Association. Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Ellen Deborah Ellis, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; Graduate Student Bryn Mawr. 1901-1902, 1903-1904; Uni- versity of Leipzig, 1902-1903; Fellow in Economics and Politics, Bryn Mawr, 1904-1905; Member of the American Historical Association, of the American Economic Association, and of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. 2319 Green Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Charles Downer Hazen, Ph.D., Lecturer B.A., Dartmouth; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Gottingen; University of Berlin; Univer- sity of Paris; Phi Beta Kappa; Member of American Historical Association, of American Economic Association, of American Statistical Association, and of the New England History Teachers Association; Professor of History in Smith College. Northampton, Massachusetts. Everett Kimball, Ph.D., Lecturer B.A., M.A., Amherst; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University; Assistant in History at Harvard University; Instructor in Wellesley College; Associate Professor in History at Smith College. . Northampton, Massachusetts. Margaret Shove Morriss, B.A., Instructor B.A. Woman’s College of Baltimore; Bryn Mawr, 1907-1908; Member of the American His- torical Association, and of the Modern Language Association. 1904 Mount Royal Terrace, Baltimore, Maryland. Bertha Haven Putnam, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., Bryn Mawr; Ph.D., Columbia University; London; Member of the American Economic Association, of the American Historical Association, of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and of the Women s University Club, New York. 335 West 86th Street, New York, New York. e year. On leave of absence for th 17