ECONOMICS. ALBERT CONSER WHITAKER, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, Leland Stanford Junior University. 1. Elements of Economics. Assistant Professor WHITAKER. Systematic exposition of economic theory. Class readings, discussions and lectures. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 9. 110 California Hall. 2. Corporations and Trusts. Assistant Professor WHITAKER. Systematic treatment of the economic problems arising from changes in the modern business organization. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 10. 110 California Hall. MUSIC. JOHN FREDERICK WOLLE, Mus.D., Professor of Music. 1. Music in the Schools. Professor WOLLE. This course is designed to present the elements of music not only to teachers in public and private schools but to all who are interested in following the technical development of the art. The subjects to be considered include time, rhythm, melody, harmony, sight-singing, analysis, interpretation, conducting, and finished topics. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 5. 1 Observatory. 2. Choral Music. Professor WOLLE. A chorus will be organized, and compositions will be studied in detail. Rehearsals: M Th, 7:30 p.m. Hearst Hall. GREEK. EDWARD BULL CLAPP, Ph.D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. HENRY WASHINGTON PRESCOTT, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Classical Philology. 1. High School Greek. Professor CLAPP. This course, consisting of lectures and exercises, will be occupied with topics of importance to the secondary teacher, such as pronunciation, forms, syntax, composition, sight reading, scanning, translation, the division of time in the Greek course, the conduct of the recitation, the securing of interest on the part of the pupils and in the community, etc. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 10. 8 North Hall. 2. Rapid Reading. Professor CLAPP. This course will be devoted to the rapid reading of an easy dialogue of Plato, perhaps the Gorgias, or two or three of the simpler dramas of Euripides, or a portion of the Odyssey, with the minimum of comment. The object of the course will be to demonstrate the fact that rapid reading is possible, and to show how it is to be accomplished. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 11. 8 North Hall. 3. Greek Tragedy in English. Assistant Professor PRESCOTT. Readings from translations of representative Greek tragedies— the Prometheus and Oresteia of Aeschylus; Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; Medea and Hippolytus of Euripides, and informal lectures on the content and form of Greek tragedy. No knowledge of Greek is required for this course. 1 unit. M Tu W Th F, 2. 8 North Hall. LATIN. CLIFTON PRICE, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Latin. HENRY WASHINGTON PRESCOTT, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Classi 1. cal Philology. Course for Teachers of Latin. Assistant Professor PRICE. In this course will be discussed the problems that meet the teachers of Latin in the secondary schools. Caesar, Cicero and Virgil will furnish the material for the practical class exercises. If there is a demand for special work in Latin prose writing, a class may be organized. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 8. 12 North Hall. 2. Latin Reading Course. Assistant Professor PRICE. Cicero's "Laelius de Amicitia" will be read and studied with special reference to Latin syntax and will be followed by the reading and interpretation of selected satires and epistles of Horace. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 9. 12 North Hall. 3. Virgil's Sixth Aeneid. Assistant Professor PRESCOTT. Intensive study of the sixth Aeneid with reference to sources, principles of composition, and the significance of the book. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 3. 8 North Hall. ENGLISH. JOSIAH HARMAR PENNIMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty, University of Pennsylvania. CHAUNCEY WETMORE WELLS, A.B., Assistant Professor of English. 1. The Romantic Movement in English Poetry. 2. Professor PENNIMAN. Lectures on the development of English poetry from the death of Pope to the death of Tennyson, including a discussion of classicism and romanticism, the rise of the appreciation of nature, the democratic movement, the poetry of revolt, the scientific movement. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 9. 101 California Hall. The Development of English Literary Criticism. Professor PENNIMAN. Lectures on the Elizabethan verse critics, theories of poetry, the drama, the lyric, the epic, the classical school of criticism, the development of Shakespeare criticism, including a discussion of the work of Ben Jonson, Dryden, Rymer, Dennis, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Walter Pater, Matthew Arnold. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 10. 101 California Hall. 3. Method of English Study in High Schools. Assistant Professor WELLS. Practice in correcting compositions; application of the method of composition to the study of literature; organization of the high-school course in English. This course presupposes a thorough grounding in the principles of composition. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 8. 1 North Hall. 4. Elementary Composition and Rhetorical Analysis. Assistant Professor WELLS. At first semi-weekly, then weekly essays in composition. Careful study of the appropriate rhetorical principles, and, conformably, of the structure and style of certain expository masterpieces. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 9. 1 North Hall. GERMAN. LUDWIG JOSEPH DEMETER, M.A., Instructor in German. ARTHUR WILLIAM RYDER, Ph.D., Instructor in Sanskrit and German. 1. The Elements of German. (Double course.) Dr. RYDER. A rapid survey of the essentials of grammar, with reading of easy prose and practice in translating into German and in conversation. Spanhoofd's Lehrbuch der deutschen Sprache. 4 units; but no credit will be given to those who have had a university course in German. M Tu W Th F, 9 and 2. 7 North Hall. 2. Advanced German. Mr. DEMETER. Syntax, composition, and conversational practice in connection with the reading of short stories and plays; Bierwirth's "Elements of German." Baumbach's "Waldnovellen." Fulda's "Unter Vier Augen." Vos's "Materials for German Conversation." 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 10. 7 North Hall. 3. Outlines of the History of the German Language. Mr. DEMETER. A brief history of the German language and its phonology, with an outline of phonetics in its relation to the teaching of German. Practice in reading and speaking German. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 11. 7 North Hall. FRENCH. ALCÉE FORTIER, Litt.D., Professor of Romanic Languages, Tulane University. JOHN TAGGART CLARK, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Romanic Lan guages. JOHN ALLEN CHILD, A.B., Instructor in Italian. 1. French Lyric Poetry. Professor FORTIER. Lectures in French and readings from the works of the greatest 2. Contemporary France: History, Literature, Institutions, and Politics. Professor FORTIER. A survey of the history of the third French Republic and of the evolution of republican principles from the government of Thiers to the presidency of Armand Fallières, and a comparison of the institutions of contemporary France with those of the United States. The students attending the lectures will be expected to read contemporary French magazines and newspapers. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 3. 15 North Hall. 3. Intermediate French. Assistant Professor CLARK. Rapid reading, conversation and composition. Much reading aloud will be done, very little translation. A careful pronunciation will be cultivated. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 8. 103 California Hall. 4. Elementary French. Mr. CHILD. The rudiments of French Grammar, with special attention to the acquisition of a good pronounciation. Reading of easy French stories. 2 units; but no credit will be given to those who have had a University course in French. M Tu W Th F, 8. 15 North Hall. |