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Caption: Course Catalog - 1884-1885
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76 Illinois Industrial University. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Studies of the School.—In the arrangement of the studies the endeavor is to present a thorough and extended drill in grammatical and philological studv, and in the authors and history of the English language, affording a training equivalent to the ordinary studies of the classical languages. Thisdrill extends through three years of the course, but may be shortened according to the ability and preparation of the student. The first two terms of the first year are given to a general survey of the whole field of British and American literature from the middle of the sixteenth century to the present time. All the representative writers come into notice, and representative specimens from the writings of each are carefully read in class. Moreover, each student is required each term to read an entire work of some classic author, making choice from a prescribed list. Frequent exercises in writing abstracts, or original compositions on themes assigned, are also required. The study of Rhetoric occupies the third term. During the second year four or five of the great masters are studied, their work analyzed, and the shaping forces of their times, with their influences upon succeeding times, are investigated. Lectures are given from time to time on poetry, epic, lyric, dramatic, etc. Writing and reading required as in first year. In the Senior year attention is given to Old English; tothe Anglo-Saxon, for which the way has been prepared by the study of both English and German, and to Philology. Essays, forensics, and orations are required. French and German.—The modern languages taught in this School are confined to one year of French and two yearsof German. Abundant practical exercises are given both in composition and translation, and the diligent student gains the power t© read with ease scientific and other works in these languages, and may, with a little practice, write and speak them with correctness. Constant attention is also given to the etymologies common to these languages and the English, and thereby a large advantage in linguistic culture is gained by the student. " He who knows no foreign tongue," said Goethe, "knows nothing of his own."
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