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ENGLISH LITERATURE NE of the most important and best known departments in Withrow is the English department. Every student in the school, regardless of the course he takes, must study English in each of his four years. The purpose of the department is three- fold. It aims to prepare students for college work, to offer pupils knowledge of the best in English literature, and to give them con- trol of the English language in both speech and written composition. In preparation for college one must know something about English literature and its history. He must be acquainted with essays, poetry, plays, novels, and short stories, and know the fundamental principles for writing them. A student entering college should be able to speak correctly, clearly, and force- fully. All of these things are taught in the English department through literature, com- position, grammar, and elocution. The friends made in books never change, and in the study of literature one finds many such friends. By reading the works of the best writers, the students taste is guided toward the selection of worthwhile literature with which to beguile his leisure hours. Withrow's finely equipped library is ready with its hundreds of fascinating books of fiction, science, history, fine arts, travel, and biography, to satisfy that hunger for good reading which is thus aroused. In the daily period of English many new ideas are suggested by the book or poem under study, and vitally interesting discus- sions, sometimes occupying the whole period, are awakened by perhaps just one short line in that book or poem. Some- thing intangible, yet immensely valuable, thus is brought into being. Both in literature and in composition is one taught closer observation and keener ap- preciation of the happenings in the world about him. Through literature one experi- ences all kinds of adventures vicariously, through composition one learns to organize and record his observations and adventures in an interesting, imaginative, and informa- tive way. Creative composition nourishes the new ideas and flights of imagination which are springing up in the mind. Enough grammar is taught to enable the student to speak and to write his native language correctly. The study of grammar is continued in high school not to make periods boring, but to help the individual pupil. One must know how to talk properly no matter what one's vocation may be, and the purpose of teaching grammar is to pro- vide that essential knowledge. Elocution, too, is part of the English course. In this study, which is required of juniors and seniors, one learns how to speak fluently, clearly, and purposefully before a group. It is here that the need for grammar study is most apparent. Poise and ease of manner are developed, and latent dramatic talent often is aroused in the weekly elocu- tion class. And so, the important English department prepares one for college and the outside world, arouses a love for the finest in liter- ature, fosters new and interesting ideas, and gives one control of both the written and spoken English language. VIRGINIA WEBSTER.
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