Word: english
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Handbooks of English Literature, "The Age of Dryden," by R. Garnett...
...collegiate courses of instruction will both be given by Harvard instructors. Professor C. H. Haskins will give a course on Monday and Wednesday evenings which will be similar to History 1a. Mr. C. T. Copeland '82 will give, on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, a course in English Literature and Composition, which will closely resemble English A. These courses commenced on Monday in the buildings of the Harvard Medical School, and will continue until June with vacations at Christmas and Easter...
...view of the sober, student philanthropist visiting a saloon, or sleeping with a tramp--which he is described as doing--would bring the work home to us as the prospect of the tidy social ethics library does not. Mr. Curtis in "Analysis" tries to wheedle the ambitious into English 18. The remaining two articles are a reasonable view of the football outlook by Mr. Watts, and a story. The editors ought of course to be very much more careful of their diction: "long pants" and "America's greatest educator" occur in one column of the editorials...
...Whereas, in the judgment of the Council, the interests of debating in the University can best be promoted not only by the practice of formal debating (which may be had at its best in the course on Debating offered by the English Department), but also by more or less informal discussion of public questions in relatively small groups of congenial...
...choice of Professor Baker to represent Harvard at the University of Paris this year is a peculiarly happy one. His subject--the English drama--is one the importance of which is appreciated no-where more than at Harvard. In fact, in no other University is such an opportunity offered for special study of recent and contemporary drama as is provided by Professor Baker's course, and if this subject is attempted elsewhere, it is in a very fragmentary way. In being filled by a man so well qualified to represent the University in this branch of literature, the professorship...