Word: anglo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that college where its other professors have creditable salaries, is given by a young man called to the inferior office of an instructor on a salary less than that paid to an ordinary butler at the West End. So at Harvard our young men can study Sanscrit or Anglo Saxon, but get no training in the queen of arts, public oratory. By consequence, Harvard men when they go on the stump or platform generally show breeding and culture, and an amazing absence of oratorical power...
...their electives. No college in the United States offers so many advantages in this department as Harvard does. In the first place, there are seven different courses for the study of the literature alone, covering periods in the English world of letters from the time of the earliest Anglo-Saxon writers down to the present day. The courses are so arranged that one may begin at whatever period he likes and study the growth of literature historically. Prof. Child has five courses (1, 2, 3, 4 and 11) covering the periods from the beginning down to Shakespeare's time. Prof...
...Columbia sophomore class has petitioned the faculty that Greek, Latin and Anglo Saxon be made elective studies in the junior and senior year...
...have not enough courses in English Literature. In required Rhetoric Prof. Hill lectures on ten authors as masters of English style. He also has two half courses, given in alternate years, on the literature of the eighteenth, and of the nineteenth centuries. Professor Child, besides his two courses in Anglo-Saxon, has one in Chaucer, one in Shakespeare, and one in Bacon and Milton. The Shakespeare may be taken in two successive years, thus counting as two courses; while the Chaucer, and the Bacon and Milton are given in alternate years. This is all, and it is not as much...
...matter, the strictures, made lately on that department, have been not on the increased opportunities and requirements in English composition, but on the lack of opportunity afforded for the study of English literature in general. The department is strong in its Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Bacon courses, and in Anglo-Saxon and early English; but for the study of the mass of literature since the time of Chaucer, with the exception of the masters whom I have mentioned, we have but two half courses given in alternate years. But the writings of not more than ten or twelve authors...