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

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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

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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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-I-HE LLAMARADA Erpartmrnt nf taiatnrg 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 1860 and I870 a distinct advance was made by the introduction of a constitutional text-book: and coincident with the coming of Miss Prentiss in I866, 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. ,lust 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 IS96, gave the Hrst 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 col- lege 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: Oxford: Member of the American Historical Association, and of the American Economic Association. South Hadley, Massachusetts MISS NEILSON Ellen Deborah Ellis, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr: Graduate Student, Bryn Mawr, l90l-l902, l903-l904: Holder of Bryn Mawr European Fellowship, and Student at Leipzig, I902-I903: Fellow in Economics and Politics, Bryn Mawr, l904-l905: Member of the American Historical Associa- tion, of the American Economic Association, and of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. llO4 S. 46th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John C. Hildt, Ph.D., Lecturer A.B., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University: Phi Beta Kappa Society: Member of American His- torical Society, and of the American Political Science Society: Instructor in Smith College. Northampton, Massachusetts Margaret Shove Morriss, B.A., Instructor B.A., Goucher College: Bryn Mawr, l904-l906: Holder of Alumnae Fellowship, Csoucher College, and Student in London, 1906-1907: Fellow in History, Bryn Mawr, l907-l908: Phi Beta Kappa Society: Member of American Historical Association. l904 Mount Royal Terrace, Baltimore, Maryland Bertha Haven Putnam, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., Bryn Mawr: Ph.D., Columbia University: London: Member of American Economic Association, of American Historical Association, of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, of Women's University Club, New York, of Academic Committee of Bryn Mawr Alumnae Associa- tion, of American Association for Labor Legislation, and of New York Bryn Mawr Club. 335 West 86th Street, New York, New York Eleanor Cary Hunsdon, M.A., Instructor and Reader B.A., Barnard College, l908: M.A., Columbia University, l9ll. New Rochelle, New York 24 l l i l I . 'r E 5 l s l s l t l t