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

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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

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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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Ti-I E 'LLAMARADA - .V Evpartment nf Engliali 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 cat-- alogue of i840-l84l has this note: It is very desirable that the members of this class fSeniorD should be so well prepared for 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 I896fI897 it was also required through the four years, except that for students in the scientific course. from IS93-1896 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 i896-i897 three teachers and one assistant gave the two required and four elective courses. The first elective was offered in i887-1888. The current year nineteen courses are offered by a teaching force consisting of a professor, two associate professors, three instructors, and a reader. MISS STEVENS 31. iiugtiali Clara Frances Stevens, Ph.M., Professor Mount Holyoke: Ph.M., University of Michigan: Member of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and of the 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. Westheld, Massachusetts Ada Laura Snell, IVLA., Associate Professor 4 . B.A., M.A., Mount Holyoke: Yale University: University of Chicago. l92 Culver Road, Rochester, New York Flora Bridges, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Oberlin: University of Zurich: University of Chicago. Morgan Road, South Hadley, Massachusetts Caroline Foote Lester, M.A., Instructor B.S., M.A., Columbia University. Seneca Falls, New York Florence L. Adams, M.A., Instructor B.L., Mount Holyoke: University of Zurich: University of Berlin: M.A. Columhia University, l9ll. Miriam Hunt Thrall. B.A., Instructor and Reader B'A Wellesley' I39 Dwight St., New Haven, Connecticut 3131. 'llnirz Cfratntng lsadelle Caroline Couch, Instructor National School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia: School of Expression, Boston. 23