YALE ALUMNI WHEKLY
Messrs. Tiffany & Co. have
just placed on sale a new pat-
tern of forks and spoons and
table service generally, upon
which their artists and die
sinkers have been employed
for many months.
Intending purchasers will.
find it to their advantage to see
this new pattern before making
a decision.
UNION SQUARE
NEW YORK
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but at the British Museum, the Sor-
bonne, and the University of Berlin,
his work is highly valued and _ his
scholars always cordially received.
Within the past year he has published
a book on “Biblical Quotations in Old
English Prose Writers,’ assumed the
editorship of the Department of Eng-
lish of the newly established Journal of
Germanic Philology, and is at present
bringing out a series of Yale English
Studies which will contain the most
important researches made by Gradu-
ate students.
Assistant Professor Phelps became
Instructor at Yale in the Fall of 1892,
and has already had unusual success as
a teacher. Thoroughly in touch with
the undergraduates, he has the faculty
of arousing in his pupils a deep inter- °
est in reading and has already done
much for the literary awakening which
is a conspicuous part of current Yale
history. As a lecturer, apart from his
ALBERT S. COOK
PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AND LITERATURE,
college work, he has had marked suc-
cess. With the growth of the Depart-
ment, he has been enabled to withdraw
from the required work, and offers for
the following year, electives in Chaucer,
Seventeenth Century Literature, Ameri-
can Literature, and Tennyson and
Browning.
Assistant Professor Cross of the
Scientific School began work at Yale
in 1895. He has had charge of the
Freshman English there, and during
Prof. Lounsbury’s absence, has taken
his work. He has made a particular:
study of English fiction, especially in
its origins, and its connection with
foreign literature, and offers, on this
subject, one of the most valuable
courses in the Graduate Department.
Mr. George H. Nettleton of the Class
of Ninety-Six has recently been ap-
pointed Instructor in English in the
Scientific School. Mr. Nettleton will
have charge of a part of the Freshman
work, and will conduct a Junior class
in Composition.
To Assistant Professor Baldwin has
fallen the task of organizing theRhetori-
cal Department, and though in need of
more assistants, he has done very effec-
by the Graduate School.
tive work. Yale has never believed in
the system of daily themes; the Yale
system favors fewer themes more care-
fully prepared, with thorough, personal
criticism. Prof. Baldwin has. accom-
plished a great deal within the short
time he has been connected with Yale,
and, in addition to his Sophomore
WILBUR L. CROSS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH.
work, offers an elective to Juniors.
He has been fortunate in his assistant,
Mr. C. W. Wells, who received his
appointment in 1896. Mr. Wells was
Chairman of the Yale Literary Maga-
gime. He has received his training from
Prof. Baldwin and is doing admirable
work in his position.
Mr, Emerson G. Taylor, of the Class
of Ninety-Five was appointed Assis-
tant in Rhetoric at the opening of the
present term. Mr. Taylor has been
studying at Yale since his graduation.
Assistant Professor Lewis has taught
at Yale for three years and received his
Doctor’s degree and an_ Assistant
Professorship in June. His rapid pro-
motion is an indication of the work he
has accomplished. His course in Eng-
lish Poets of the Nineteenth Century is
the largest English elective for the
present year. He also offers a special
course in the English Renascence. His
recently published thesis on the For-
eign Sources of English Versification is
a piece of scholarly investigation of a
very high standard.
Dr. Reed, who had charge of the
Freshman work the past year, grad-
uated in 1894, took his Doctor’s degree
in 1896, and spent the following year
in study in Paris and Miinich. He
shares with Prof. Lewis the required
Sophomore work, and offers a special
course in Lyrical Poetry.
The latest addition to the force is
Dr. Frank H. Chase, valedictorian of
the Class of Ninety-Four. Dr. Chase
has made a special study of Old Eng-
lish Syntax, and though but a recent
graduate, is already an authority on this
subject. During the past year, he has
been studying at the British Museum
and Berlin, and, for the present year,
conducts the Freshman work. He also
CHARLTON M. LEWIS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE.
offers an elective on the History of the
English Language.
The advance made in the undergrad-
uate work has been briefly mentioned
and a glance at the catalogue will show
what instruction the four classes are re-
ceiving. The catalogue, however, ,can
not indicate what is being accomplished
Graduate
From one end of the land to the other,
wherever men who demand the best are
found, Fownes’ Gloves are the recognized
standard of merit and fashion.
They are
best for dress, for the street, for riding,
driving, or golfing — for all occasions and
all purposes. To wear them is to be cor-
rectly gloved.
sell them.
All leading haberdashers
work is becoming more and more im-.
portant as the University idea grows.
Formerly, a teacher was fully equipped
with his Bachelor’s degree; now, a
Doctor’s degree is almost a necessity.
The number of students seeking ad-
vanced courses in English is yearly in-
creasing and will continue to increase,
and Yale can not maintain her prestige
unless she offers them unusual advan-
tages. The English Department has
realized this and is meeting the require-
ment, as the number of graduate stu-
dents attracted to Yale well indicates.
For the present year, six professors
and assistant professors offer eighteen
graduate courses in English. Prof.
Cook offers but one undergraduate
elective, and therefore practically de-
votes his time and energy to advanced
students. Only those who have studied
under him can appreciate the interest
he takes in the individual and the care
with which he follows his work.
The aim of these Graduate courses is
to give the student a thorough training
in the two branches of language and
literature. For a number of years there
has been an exodus of students of Eng-
lish to Germany, and the idea has been
prevalent that a German professor can
best teach our language and interpret
our writings. A Doctor’s degree from
Germany has implied the highest possi-
ble training. With the growth of grad-
uate work in American universities, this
state of affairs is changing, and in this
particular field the German universities
must soon share with others their pres-
tige. With the present attitude of Ox-
ford and Cambridge towards English
studies continued, it is safe to predict
that the tide will turn, and in the course
of a decade one may see foreign stu-
dents beginning to come to America for
their English instruction.
What Germany has to offer in gradu-
ate work is preéminently Old and
Middle English. In Prof. Cook, a pupil
and friend of Prof. Siever, Yale has an
authority in this field, and it is not
exaggerating the facts to assert that
neither at Berlin nor at Leipsic can the
student of our early language receive
a training more thorough than that
given him at New Haven. The trib-
utes paid by Germany to Prof. Cook’s
scholarship are the best proof of this.
In the field of early English Syntax
Dr. Chase is one~of the foremost
workers, and in the period of Chaucer
it is only necessary to mention Prof.
Lounsbury’s course. 3
In treating of the subject of Lan-
guage, strong emphasis must be laid
upon the hearty codperation the Eng-
lish Department receives from the
Classical and Modern Language Fac-
ulties. Owing to the interaction of
graduate work, the student of English
Philology, using the word in its re-
stricted sense, finds in these Depart-
ments a variety of courses bearing an
intimate relation to his own special
field. Though they can not properly be
included in the list of English courses,
they term: avery vital part -of his
work.
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[From Woodward’s “ Insurance in Connecticut.’
The tna escaped the fire of December 16th, 1835, in New York City—the first in the
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