NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1898.
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A PROGRESSIVE DEPARTMENT.
A Sketch of English at Yale in the
Past and Present,
The growing interest in the study of
the English Language and Literature is
one of the most important facts in the
history of modern education.
years ago, in nearly every college, there
was a chair of Rhetoric and English
Literature. Its occupants gave instruc-
tion in Rhetoric and Composition, in
some cases, in Declamation, and in a
very limited way, in Literary Criticism.
Courses in Phonetics, in Old and
Middle English, and in Comparative
Literature, were practically unknown.
In the field of criticism, a vast body of
English writers were as good as for-
gotten, or accessible only in rare edi-
tions, beyond the reach of the student.
In 1848, the English Department at
Yale was embodied in the person of
Professor Larned. Professor Goodrich
gave a course in Eloquence, but he did
not properly belong to the Academic
Faculty. The courses in English in
Freshman year consisted in “Lectures
on the structure of the Language and
Composition.” In Sophomore year,
“Elocution, Declamation, and Composi-
tion,” and in Senior year, ‘Forensic
Disputations.”” One looks in vain for
announcements of courses in Shakes-
peare and the Drama, in Milton and
his contemporaries, in our Modern
Poetry,—in a word, of what are called
to-day, literary coureses.
On the other hand, in the field of
Language Yale was building up the
reputation she still enjoys. The first
great contribution in the field of Eng-
lish work was Noah Webster’s Ameri-
can Dictionary of the English Lan-
guage. Compiled by a graduate of the
Class of Seventeen Seventy-Eight, it has
been distinctively a Yale production.
Revised by Professor Goodrich, and
later by President Porter, with Pro-
fessors Thacher, Hadley, Dana, Gilman,
and Whitney as prominent contributors
to it, it will stand as a splendid memo-
rial of Yale scholarship.
That Professor Whitney should have
been chosen as the editor of the Cen-
tury Dictionary, shows that Yale has
continued her leadership in this work.
Apart from his labors in these Diction-
aries, Professor Whitney showed his
interest in English studies by his Eng-
lish Grammar, a modest but valuable
contribution, on scientific principles, to
school text-books, and the English De-
partment can justly claim some share in
Professor Whitney’s achievements.
Professor Hadley, also, devoted sev-
eral of his Philological essays to Eng-
lish, and though .these contributions
were not numerous, they were exceed-
ingly valuable.. In Webster’s Diction-
ary, he published a brief, clear and
simple history of the English Language.
This undoubtedly suggested toProfessor
Lounsbury his own well-known work
on the same subject, and thus the
scholarly tradition of the past has been
continued in the present time.
The work which Yale was accom-
plishing in Language studies, serves to
emphasize her neglect in providing am-
ple instruction in Literature and Belles
Lettres, and, as has been stated, this
characterized not only Yale, but her
sister colleges. This neglect of our
own writers might have continued for
a number of decades, had not the Ger-
man scholars turned their attention to
this rich field for research. In many
cases, they were actually pioneers and
discoverers. Their work stimulated
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ELEVEN AND SUBSTITUTES.
Bartlett.
H. Lathrope,
Beam.
Pell. Montgomery.
Black. Beardsley. Kinney. Poe.
Reiter. Knight.
ne, Craig.
Duncan. Roper. Wheeler.
Ayres. Crowdis.
G. Lathrope.
ills.
eer. Palmer.
Watkins.
Rosengarten. Hillebrand (Capt.)
Filson.
Booth. Edwards.
English and American scholars, and
gave to the Universities of Germany
the prestige in English studies which
they still enjoy. For several years, the
movement, if so it may be called, grew
slowly, but within the past decade, the
work in English in American schools
and colleges has made remarkable pro-
gress. That our mother tongue, that
our national writers should receive the
same careful attention paid to the Clas-
sical and modern European Literatures,
is now accepted as a self-evident propo-
sition, and to-day, the English Depart-
ment is one of the most prominent fea-
tures of the modern university.
It is not to be supposed that Yale has
been a laggard in this movement, and
it is only necessary to go back to the
catalogue of 1892 to show the great
advance that has been made.
ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT FACULTY.
In the Fall of that year, the English
Faculty in the Academical Department
consisted of three men, Prof. Beers,
Prof. Cook and Prof. McLaughlin.
The two former devoted their time to
the Senior and Junior classes, offering
in all eight full courses, aggregating
fifteen hours. For the two lower
classes there was but one instructor,
Prof. McLaughlin. Necessarily, there
could be no English in Freshman year,
and in Sophomore year, but four
months’ work with each section of the
class. That Prof. McLaughlin, under
these extremely discouraging condi-
tions, could arouse a deep interest in
English studies, is but one of the many
proofs of his rare ability and the great
loss the college sustained in his death.
At the present time, there are nine
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TEAM WILL BE FIT.
Camp Says a Steadier Defense
Has Been Developed.
Mr.
The coaches are back in numbers
even at the expense of business de-
mands.
stronger than material cares. To say
that these men have put new life into
the team is to tell but half the story.
Under their work the men who will go
into the Princeton game, are getting
together and showing rapidly inprov-
ing form. Injuries make careful hand-
ling of some of the players necessary
and this militates against securing the
full value of the coaching, but it looks
now as if the men would all be in
shape to go into the game. The team’s
offensive plays will be very limited in
variety, but they will be performed with
plenty of spirit. The defense is im-
proving. very rapidly and the line is
already far steadier than a week ago.
WALTER CAMP.
The Team’s Departure.
The Yale players will leave here
at four o’clock to-morrow afternoon
and the University will meet at Osborn
Hall to cheer them off. The night will
be spent at the Murray Hill Hotel. New
York. Saturday morning at 9.20 the
squad will leave in special parlor cars
for Princeton, where they will take
lunch at the Princeton Inn. They will
leave for New York immediately after
the game, returning to New Haven
Sunday afternoon.
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Train Service to Princeton.
The annual Yale-Princeton football
game will be played at Brokaw Field,
Princeton, Saturday afternoon, Novem-
ber 12, at two o'clock.
This will be the first championship
game played at Princeton since the
