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YALE ALUMNI WwWHrEKLY
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As regards Literature and Aesthetics
it may be sufficient to assert that Yale
has resisted a somewhat growing ten-
dency, due perhaps to the influence of
Germany, to narrow the field of English
studies. Prof. Cook’s Presidential ad-
dress, delivered before the Modern
Language Association, clearly indicates
a broad view of this matter. The grad-
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE.
uate courses plainly show that the ar-
tistic side of the subject is not over-
looked, and that no one period of our
literature is unduly emphasized. Prof.
Lounsbury offers a course in Tennyson
and his Contemporaries as well as in
Chaucer;Prof. Beers in Victorian litera-
ture as well as in Mediaeval Allegory.
About one-half of the three. years’
graduate course is occupied in the
preparation of a thesis. The original
work thus produced is of a high order,
and the University is making literary
and linguistic investigations of genuine
value. The well known thesis of Prof.
Davidson on the English Mystery
Plays, of Prof. Phelps on English
Romanticism, and Prof. Lewis’ recent
work already mentioned, indicate the
range of subjects and their standard. .
This research work, directed personally
by such authorities, in their respective
fields, as Prof. Lounsbury, Prof. Cook
and Prof. Beers, forms the most im-
portant part of the English curriculum.
Although there is a wide difference
between the graduate and undergrad-
uate spirit, the advanced student will
find his life at Yale attractive, apart
from his work. He is allowed to enter
undergraduate courses, and thus has an
opportunity to study the practical side
of teaching. Membership is open to
him in the Modern Language Club,
meeting monthly, and the English Club,
which meets bi-weekly in the English
CHARLES S. BALDWIN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC.
Seminary tooms. At this latter club,
practical questions of English work are
discussed and the results are presented
of any special investigation the student
may be pursuing. This gives an op-
portunity for criticism and suggestions,
and the interest shown in the organiza-
tion indicates that it is an important
part of graduate life.
As a further indication of the spirit
of graduate work, mention should be
made of the performance of Beaumont
and Fletcher’s Knight of the Burning
Pestle. This was given by a class of
graduates, who were making- a close
study of the Jacobean Drama. Work-
ing themselves into the spirit of the
period, they produced, for the first time
in this country so far as is known, that
dramatic classic. The play has been so
fully reviewed and its success so com-
mented upon, that it is unnecessary to
refer to it further than as a striking
proof of the deep interest shown in
English work; apart from the enjoy-
ment of the play and its educational
value, it is more important as a sign
of vitality and progress in the Depart-
ment.
It may be seen from this account of
English at Yale that the Department is
fulfilling two objects. It. is providing
adequate general instruction for the
undergraduate and special and techni-
cal work for the graduate. With a
faculty differing in temperament, in
fields of work, in methods of instruc-
EDWARD B. REED
TUTOR IN ENGLISH.
tion, the student may approach: his sub-
ject not by one path, but by many.
The Department is fully awake to its
opportunities and the next six years
will show an advance even greater than
that which the past six have witnessed.
Sheffield Class Officers.
A meeting of ’99 S. was held in North
Sheffield Hall on November 3 to elect
the class committees. The elections
resulted as follows:
Class Day Historians—H. S. Canby;
B. .V:..Norton; M..T. Townsend: J.
McLean Walton; W. M. Sanders.
Class Book Committee—H. A. North;
A. F. Corwin; L. S. Treadwell; William
Walker.
Dance Committee—A. B. Babcock;
Ce i. Palmer: WN, Dann WE:
stanley; C. M. Hall.
Class Cup Committee—F. H. Lin-
denberg; S. E. Thomas: F. G. Hall.
Class Day Committee—H. C. Gause;
_E. J. Grant; S. B. Sutphin; R. P. Flint;
C. A. Warden.
Statisticans—Leeds Mitchell; G. K.
Dustin.
Class Book Historians—A. M. Bell;
S. F. Shattuck; Hunter Morrison; J. T.
Walker; H. L. Davis; W. W. Knight;
Lich. 1 HOMpsSON: * |
Picture Committee—J. F. Archbald;
Dudley Guilford; P. T. Dashiell.
CHAUNCEY W. WELLS
INSTRUCTOR IN RHETORIC.
Supper Committee—E. A. McCullagh;
F. H. Hunn; Thomas LeBoutillier.
Graduation Committee—J. C. Dallam; |
-H. F. Benjamin; E. E. Marshall.
Triennial Committee—J. C. Green-
leaf; C. C. Conway; C. W. Andrews.
Charles William Birely, ’99 L.S., was
elected Editor of the Shingle with E. C.
Simpson, ’99 L.S., and F. S. Jackson,
99 L.S. as Associate Editors. C. S.
Briggs of the same class was elected
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