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Title: Annual catalogue of Swarthmore College
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Swarthmore College
Subjects: Swarthmore College -- Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia: Lippincott
Contributing Library: Swarthmore College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ding andoriginal investigation embodied in Monthly Essays and Thesis at end of Semester. Second Semester: Lectures on English Composition. Thesiswork. Once a week. For all regular students except those in En-gineering Courses. Once a week. In the Junior and Senior years, the work for the students in theEngineering Course is based on technical subjects, with special drillin business forms and descriptive composition. Once a week, English Language and Literature. The course in English Literature extends through four years, in-struction being given by recitations and lectures. During this timethe English Language is studied in connection with the Literaturefrom the Anglo-Saxon period down to the present day. The particu-lar feature of the course is the critical reading in the class-room ofrepresentative authors, such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope,Tennyson. Peculiarities of style and language are considered, allu-sions are looked up, and every effort made for a thorough comprehen-
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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. 39 sion of the work in hand. The authors life is studied in its relationto the history of the time, and his works are compared with those ofhis contemporaries. By this course it is expected that the student willbe enabled, from his own observation, to form an intelligent estimateof the style and merits of the great authors of English Literature.The courses offered are as follows : FRESHMAN CLASS. The nineteenth century. Poetry and Prose. SOPHOMORE CLASS. The period from about 1750, continuing into the nineteenth cen-tury. SENIOR AND JUNIOR CLASSES. The period from Shakespeare to Dr. Johnson. SENIOR AND JUNIOR CLASSES. From the Anglo-Saxon period to Shakespeare. Readings in Anglo-Saxon, Chaucer, Spenser, etc. The last two Courses are given in alternate years. > French. / Course I. Time, one year. French Grammar—inflections of regular verbs and auxiliaries ; forms of articles, nouns, adjectives, andpronouns; common irregular verbs; general principles of syntax.S

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