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

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in J :E Q.LA 1-' esi f.Fi -. lomor od Department nf Iingliah illiterature During the first twenty years of Mount Holyoke Sem- inary, Milton's Paradife Lost seems to have been the chief book studied in English Literature, although great attention was also paid to Pope 's Effay on Man and Young's Night Thoughtf. Milton's Paradise Loft was not only the last to disappear from the list of studies, but it .was required every year except in 1847-1848, when it was starred with Butler's Analogy as not strictly required of those who have a good knowledge of Latin. In 1858 A 4 a course in the history of literature was introduced and if? , Miss HARPER required of Seniors. This general course, which came to include oriental, classical, and medieval literature, remained a part of every student's work until the end ofthe Seminary itself. Meanwhile, in 1864, the History of English Litera- ture was required for the third year. This course 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 deiined four-year course, beginning with Old and Middle English in 1890-1891, the history of the Seminary ends and that of the college begins. ELLA PR1sc11.1.A BOWERS, Ernerizu: Profeffor Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Massachusetts. CARRIE ANNA HARPER, Ph.D., Axfociate Profeffor . B.A., M.A., Radcliffe, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, Graduate Scholar and l eIlow in English, Bryn Mawr, Member of the Modern Language Association of America. Sunderland, Massachusetts. HELEN MAY CADY, M.A., Instructor B.A., M.A., Wellesley, Radcliffe, Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Mansheld, Massachusetts. ,LDOROTHY 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., Inrlructor B.A., M.A., Wellesley, Alice Freeman Palmer Fellow, 1910-1911, Chicago University, Oxford University. 1212 North Shore Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. HARRIET MANNING BLAKE, Ph.D., Inrzruczor B.A., M.A., Wellesley, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Fellow in English, University of PCl'1nSYlV2lI1li1- Marion, Pennsylvania. .ANITA PRENTICE FORBES, M.A., Inftruczor B.A., M.A., Radcliffe. H - SI Thorton Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 'On leave of absence for the year. 28

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Ae lonrexr o - f- 4 .4 W A-, Erpartinrxit uf iingliah-Qlnurluhrh NIARGARET BALL, Ph.D., Axfociaie Profefror Ii.A., Mount llolyokeg M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Westheld, Massachusetts. ADA LAURA FONDA SNELL, M.A., Arrociate Proffrror BA., M.A., Mount Holyoke, Yale University, University of Chicago. 192 Culver Road, Rochester, New York. CAROLINE FooTE LESTER, M.A., Imtructor l3.S., NLA., Columbia University. Seneca Falls, New York. FLORENCE I.. ADAMS, M.A., Ivzrmzflor B.l.., Mount Holyoke, M.A., Columbia Universityg University of ZuI'lCllQ University of Berli11. Shirley Center, Massacliusettsi HELEN GR11fF1'r11, M.A., Inflrucfor' B.A., Bryn Mawr, MA., Columbia University, University of Chicago. ISO7 l ourth Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. NlIRIAM HUNT VTIIRALL, B.A., Imtruczor B.A., lVellesley. 139 Dwight Street, New Haven, Connecticut. AIARIAN COLBY, B.A., Instructor and Reader BA., Mount Holyoke, Yale University. 25 Ellsworth Street, Portland, Maine. SINA TEMPLETON STEENROD, B.A., Reader and flxriftant in Voice Training ISA., Mount Holyoke. 555 Stephenson Street, Freeport, Ill. ll. lllnirr Urnining From the beginning of the Seminary, in 1837, to 1869, reading was required of all students. From 1869 to the present time, instruction in Elocution has held a recognized place. Professor Mark Bailey of Yale College and Pro- fessor J NV. Churchill of Andover gave a course of lectures on regular instruction in elocution from 1869 to 1883. Since 1883 there have been four instructors in the depart- ment. For six years, Voice Training has been required of all Freshmen and three elective courses have been 7 offered since 1908. if-4 MISS COUCH ISADELLE CAROLINE COUCH, Asxociale Profefror , National School of Elocution and Oratory, Pliilaclelplliztg School of lixpression, Boston. 478 East Main Street, Meriden, Connecticut., 27

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25 1 lemme ,- Y 44 -he W -I--1 Erpartnxvxnt nf 151-nlngg Geology has been taught at Mount Holyoke from the first, but to Miss Cowles and Miss Edwards belongs the credit for developing the department and making the collections what they are now. Miss Cowles taught fol over thirty-five years, during a part of which time occa- sional lectures were given by Professor Charles H of Dartmouth, and fteld work was conducted by Mrs Martha K. Genthe. The collection consists of minerals, rock specimens, fossil casts, invertebrate fossils, numerous reptile tracks from this vicinity and one of the rare fossils t 1 from the Triassic sandstones-the almost perfect skeleton ' of a small dinosaur. ' MISS TALBOT Louise FRANCES Cowmzs, M.A., Emeritus Proffnor Mount Holyoke, M.A., Smith, Worcester School of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Amherst Summer School of Languages, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member ofthe Association of the Collegiate Alumnae. Peterson Lodge, South Hadley, Massachusetts. MIGNON TALBOT, Ph.D., Professor B.A., Ohio State University, Ph.D., Yale University, Harvard University, Cornell University, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member of the National Geographic Society of the Paleontological Society, and of the American Forestry Association, Sigma Xi Society. South lladley, Massachusetts. MILDRED ELEANOR BLODGETT, S.B., Inxtruczor S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. South lladley, Massachusetts. 29