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

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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

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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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rri ' ' Q e lornor od , , Eepartnnrnt nf German German was added to the Seminary course as an optional study in 1846. The catalogue of 1876-1877 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 1887 the department began 1ts separate existence, and German wasrequired of all stu- dents for two terms. With the establishment of the col- lege course in 1888, it was required for entrance, and was prescribed for the scientific and literary courses until their abolishment in 1902. The teaching course has grown as follows: one full instructor, 1887-1893, during the years 1893-1897-1900, two full instructors, 19oo-1903, M155 HINSDALE three, 1903 to the present time, four. The number of Courses offered has increased from the first small beginnings to eight courses, 1888-1893, eleven, ISQ3-I8Q7, ten, 1897-1900, twenty-one, IQOO-1908. ELLEN CLARINDA HINSDAI.E, Ph.D., Profexfor B.A., Western Reserve University, M.A., University of Michigan, Ph.D., University of Gfjttingeng University of Leipzig, University of Berlin, Member of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the New lingland 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., Asrociale Profenor 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 Lan- guage Association. Morgan Road, South lladley, Massachusetts. GRACE NIABEL BACON, Ph.D., Instructor li.A., Mount Holyoke, M.A., University of Michigan, University of Berlin, Member of Modern Language Association of New England, Ph. D., University of Michigan. Dorchester, Massachusetts. JULIANE MARIE AUGUSTA SARAUW,M.A.,17lIlf1lCl0f Graduate of Schleswig Seminary, Germany, College de France, Paris, Studied ltalian at Florence, Sorbonne, Paris, Columbia University. . Augustenbcrg, Alsen, Germany. 30