The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50
VII. School of English
VII. School of English.
Course of Study.
First Year.
First Semester—Language Lessons, Dictations and Composition (Swinton, Harvey).
Second Semester—English Grammar (Harvey), Blackboard Exercises, Dictations. Composition, Word Studies.
Second Year.
First Semester—Analysis (Green), Rhetoricals, Forms of English Composition, Notes on the Origin of Language, Word Studies from Trench.
Second Semester—Analysis Continued and Rhetoric (Hart), Study of Synonyms (Crabbe), Composition and Themes, Trench's Lectures.
Third Year.
First Semester—United States History (Swinton.) References: I. Settlement I (Bancroft, Prescott). 2. Revolution (Bancroft, Hildreth). 3. Political Development (Johnstone, Statesman's Manual, Benton's Thirty Years).
Second Semester—Rhetoric concluded, Historical Essays, Elocution, Lectures and Note-taking, History of English. References: "English Past and Present" I (Trench), "Select Glossary" (Trench), "Study of Language" (March), "Principles of Rhetoric" (Whately), "Kame's Elements of Criticism," "Blair's Lectures."
Fourth Year.
First Semester—English History (Smith's Hume). References: Celtic and Roman Periods (Knight's Pictorial History, Hume, Smollett), Anglo-Saxon Period (Turner), Norman Period (Guizot's History of Civilization, Taine's History of English Literature), Constitutional Period (Hallam, Macaulay, Collier, Lodge, I Agnes Strickland).
Second Semester—Political History and Science (Townsend's Analysis of the United States Constitution). References: Johnstone's Manual, Statesman's Manual, Blackstone, Kent.
page 56The subjects chiefly taught in this Department are German and French. [unclear: General] is commenced at the beginning of the first semester, and French at the [unclear: beginning] the second.
The object of the Professor in this Department is to give the students a [unclear: brief] tory of the countries speaking these languages, and, by a course of lectures, [unclear: a] knowledge of their literatures. The prime object is to enable the scientific [unclear: study] at the end of his course, to read any works in modern German. In addition, student is drilled, by frequent conversations, to understand the language [unclear: with] spoken, and encouraged to attempt replies.
German—First Year.
First Semester—Otto's grammar, exercises, conversations and composition
Second Semester.—Same continued; reading in prose and poetry.
Second Year.
First Semester.—Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Maria Stuart, lectures, convert and translations into German of short stories.
Second Semester.—Nathan der Weise, Egmont, lectures, conversations translations continued.
French.
First Semester.—Joynes' Otto's Introductory lessons, Joynes' reader, [unclear: conventions], lectures and composition.
Second Semester.—Racine's Athalie, Le Cid de Corneille, Le [unclear: Misanthrey] Moliere, conversations, lectures, grammar and composition.
Spanish—One-Half Semester.
Spanish grammar—Las Lecturas de Knapp.
Italian—One-Half Semester.
Italian grammar—Select readings in Italian Authors.
Report.
- Number of students entered in German classes
- Number of students entered in French classes
- Number of students entered in Spanish classes
- Number of students entered in Italian classes
- Total entered in whole department
The character of the students in this department has been of the best, [unclear: their] industry habitual and their progress marked.