Tennessee Military Institute - Radiogram Yearbook (Sweetwater, TN)

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DESCRIPTION OF CCURSES II. College Preparatory ENGLISH There is a growing complaint that in high schools too little attention is given to the study of English. Whether this complaint is justifiable or not, it is, nevertheless, true that the average high-school pupil is sadly deficient in the use of his own language. It too frequently happens that students be- ginning the study of a foreign language must be taught the elements of their own language before any progress can be made. For this reason we insist in this institution that the study of English be made the most important sub- ject, for we realize that the ability to speak and write English correctly, clearly, and gracefully is the best educational asset a young man can possess. The course of study follows closely the recommendation of the Committee on College Entrance Requirements. lt embraces the study of grammar, com- position, and rhetoric, and the reading and the studying of a number of clas- sics selected from the College Entrance Requirements. Thoroughness is re- quired throughout the whole course. This we seek to gain by constant drill work in grammar and composition and by frequent exercises in punctuation, paragraphing, use of words, and letter writing. In the more advanced classes in rhetoric, themes in narration, description, and argumentation, together with story writing, are required. The ability to read accurately and intelligently is sought by the study of the classics. In connection with this course, the pupil is required to read aloud and to commit to memory selections of prose and poetry from standard authors. The study of biography is emphasized in order to acquaint the stu- dent with the important facts in the lives of the authors and to enable him to estimate their places in literary history. FIRST YEAR: Advanced Grammar fthoroughly taught! and literature selected from the following: Kidnapped, short stories, orations, short lyric and narrative poems, The Lady of the Lake, and As You Like It. SECOND YEAR: Composition, with much written workg drill on sentence and paragraph structure, avoiding common errors, etc. Classics to be selected from the following: A collection of short stories, ballads, lyric poems, The House of the Seven Gables, Julius Caesar, The Riine of the Ancient Mariner, and The Idylls of the King. THIRD YEAR: Composition and Rhetoric: the principles of grammar and their applica- tion in themes. History of American Literature, with special emphasis on Poe, Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Harte, Emerson, Bryant, Whittier, and the more mod- ern poets. FOURTH YEAR: Woolley's Handbook of Composition. Many themes in the four types of composition. The work of the Senior year is devoted to an intensive study of English Literature. We use a thorough chronological anthology, covering the subject from the prehistoric to the contemporary, with special emphasis on Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Burns, Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Macaulay, Tennyson, Browning, Kipling, and Masefield. IParaIIeI Reading Required in All Coursesl Page Forty-One

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