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

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D. b Y P Y' y l P t 1 H. l a l 9 t Ti-1 E 'LLAMARADA Zttwartmvnt nf tbvrmun German was added to the seminary course as an optional study in 1846. The catalogue of I876-1877 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 i887 the department began its separate existence and German was required of all students for two terms. With the establishment of the college course in ISSS, it was required for entrance, and was prescribed for the scientific and literary courses until their abolishment in l902.t The teaching force has grown as follows: one full instructor, l887-IS93: during the years IS93-i897-l9O0 two full instructors: l900-l903, three: r i903 to the present time, four. The number of courses offered has increased from the first small beginnings to eight MISS HINSDALE courses, l888-1893: eleven, IS93-1897: ten, IS97-l900: twenty one, l900-1908. R411 Ellen Clarinda Hinsdale, Ph.D., Professor B.A., Western Reserve University: M.A., University of Michigan: Ph.D., University of Giittingen: University of Leipzig: University of Berlin: Member of the Modern Language Asso- ciation of America, and of the New England Modern Language Association: 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 Ziirich: University of Berlin: Member of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the New England Modern Language Association. K ' Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts Grace Mabel Bacon, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke: M.A., University of Michigan: University of Berlin: Member of Mocl- ern Language Association of New England: Ph.D., University of Michigan. Dorchester, Massachusetts Juliane Marie Augusta Sauraud, M.A., Instructor Graduate of Schleswig Seminary. Germany: College de France, Paris: Studied Italian at Florence : Sorbonne, Paris: Columbia University. ' Augustenburg, Alsen, Germany 2I

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TH E 'LLAMARADA Eepartment nf Zllnntanrr languages In the early days of Mount Holyoke Seminary one in- structor took charge of all the work in modern languages: but in IBS7-l888 the departments of French and German were separated. Four courses in French were then offered, repre- senting as many years' work. In l89l-i892 six courses were given, and in i897-i898 an additional instructor was found necessary. Italian and Spanish courses began to figure in the catalogue in IS94-1895, but were not given regularly until l90l, when Miss Mary Vance Young was called to the chair of Romance Languages. During the last seven years the total number of courses offered has increased from seventeen to twenty six, with a proportionate increase in the number of students electing them. The department aims to give, beyond MISS YOUNG and above the practical use of the tongue, a knowledge of the thought life expressed in their literature. Mary Vance Young, Ph.D., Professor Ph.D., University of Ziirich: Sorbonne: Ecole des Hautes Etudes: College de France: Ecole des Charles: Member of the Modern Language Association of America, of the Dante Society of America, of the Societe Amicale Paris, of the Maitres Phonetiques, and of the New Eng- land Modern Language Association: Officier d'Academie fconferred by French Governmentj. South Hadley, Massachusetts Mary Gertrude Cushing, Ph.D., Associate Professor M.A., Wellesley: Student of Romance Literature and Philology at Columbia University, and in Paris, l90l-l905: Studied in France and Spain, i907-l908. Hotel Sherman Square, New York City Emma Riville-Rensch, Associate Professor Studied in Switzerland, Paris, Germany, England: Member of Modern Language Association, South Hadley, Massachusetts Susan Almira Bacon, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A., Mount Holyoke: Studied in University of Berne, Switzerland, i905-l906: Studied in Geneva, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg: Ph.D.. Yale University, l9ll. l3l Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 20

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Tn-IE LLAMARADA Eepartmmt nf tinglialt tllitsraturv For the first twenty years of Mount Holyoke Seminary, Milton's Paradise Lost seems to have formed the literary pabulum of the students. Great attention was also paid to the study of Pope's Essay on Man, and Young's Night Thoughts. Though the last to disappear from the list of studies in the catalogue, Milton suffered but one partial interregnum in IS47-l848, when Paradise Lost, with Butler's Analogy, was starred as not strictly required of those who have a good knowledge of Latin. In l858-IS59 a course in the history of literature was introduced and required of Seniors. This general history Cdeveloping later in ancient literature, oriental, classical, and medievall, remained a part of every student's course, till the end of the Seminary itself. The history of English Literature was required for the third year of the course in IS64-IS65, 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 l887-l888 and a well- defined four years' course, beginning with Old and Middle English, in l890-l89l, the history of the Seminary ends and that of the College begins. Ella Priscilla Bowers, Emeritus Professor Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Massachusetts Carrie Anne Harper, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Radcliffe: Ph.D., Bryn Mawr: Graduate Scholar and Fellow in English, Bryn Mawr' Sunderland, Massachusetts xHelen 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: Graduate Scholar in English, Radcliffe. 44 Churchill Ave., Newtonville, Massachusetts Laura Alandis Hibbard, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Wellesley: Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship, l9l0-l9ll: Chicago University: Oxford University. 821 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois Elsie G. May, M.A., Instructor Honors in School of English Language and Literature, Oxford University: M.A., University of Birmingham: British Scholar, Bryn Mawr. 56 Trafalgar Road, Moseley, Birmingham, England Margaretta Martin, M.A., Reader and Instructor B.A., M.A., Mount Holyoke: Phi Beta Kappa Society. 56 Whitney Street, Hartford, Connecticut I On leave of absence for the year. 22