Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1892-1893 [PAGE 129]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

COLLEGE OF LITERATURE.

ITALIAN.

127

1. Italian.—Selected readings, composition, and conversational exercises. Grandgent's Italian Grammar and Reader; Readings from modern authors; DeAmici's Camilla, or Ctiore. Fall, winter, and spring terms, full study. Professor SNYDER. Required: French, 1, or 4.

SPANISH.

1. Spanish.—Selected readings, composition, and conversational exercises. Knapp's Spanish Grammar and Reader. Fall, winter, and spring terms, full study. Professor PARADIS. Required: French 1, or 4; or Latin, 1, 2, and 3.

RHETORIC AND ORATORY.

The object of the prescribed courses outlined below is not so much the acquisition of knowledge regarding English as skill in the use of English and in oratorical delivery. They are designed chiefly to furnish the student with the ability to write well and to speak well,—to express his thoughts, both with the pen and with the voice, in a clear, effective manner. 1. Themes and Elocution.—Students from the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and Science do their work in this department during their junior year. No text-book is used; but in order that all practice in writing may be intelligent, a fair working knowledge of the principles of composition is given in lectures. Ten themes are presented by each person, each of which, after correction by the instructor, is handed back to the student to be carefully re-written and returned to the instructor. Further on in the work of the year is included a carefully graded series of twenty lessons in elocution. Phyfes How I Should Pronounce. Fall, winter, and spring terms, three-fifths study. Professor BROWNLEE. 2. Themes and Elocution.—Students from the College of Literature do the work of this department during the freshman and the senior years. Two hours a week throughout the freshman year are devoted to rhetoric and theme writing. Ten themes are required, and each, after correction, is re-written by the student. One hour a week throughout the senior year is devoted to oratorical delivery. Six lectures are given upon the art of oratory. Genung's Practical Rhetoric; Webster's Orations. First year, two-ffths study; fourth year, one-fifth study. Professor BROWNLEE.