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(C.) FOUNDERS OF CHAIRS, LECTURESHIPS, ETC.

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1896

DESIGNATION OF CHAIRS,
LECTURESHIPS, ETC.

Chair of Pathological Anatomy. Lectureship in Natural Theology. Chair of English Literature.

Rev. WILLIAM ANDERSON, LL.D., Principal of Agra Lectureship on
College

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1910

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WILLIAM HUNTER, LL.D., Advocate in Aberdeen

Comparative
Psychology.

Bequest towards
Endowment of

Lectureship or

Chair in Law
Faculty.

Lectureship (five
years) in History.
Lectureship in The-
ology.
Burnett-Fletcher
Chair in History.

Lectureship in Law
of Procedure, etc.
Bequest for Univer-
sity Purposes.
Lectureships in
French and Geo-

logy.

Right Hon. LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT Gift of £10,000 to-
ROYAL, G. C.M.G.

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1914

wards

endow

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Chair of Astronomy.

Right Hon. LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT Bequest to make a

ROYAL, G.C.M.G.

The CARNEGIE TRUST

full endowment for Chair of

Agriculture.

in

Lectureships
Const. Law and
History, Educa-
tion, German,
and Political Eco-
nomy.

(C.) FOUNDERS OF CHAIRS, LECTURESHIPS, ETC.-Continued

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Sir ALEXANDER MCROBERT, LL.D., Cawnpore, Georgina McRobert
India

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Lectureship
Pathology.

in

Fund for purchase

of books (Nat.

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SYNOPSIS OF CLASSES.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

FOUNDED IN 1893 IN TERMS OF BEQUEST BY THE LATE
MR. JOHN GRAY CHALMERS.

Patron-THE CROWN.

Professor-1894 Herbert John Clifford Grierson, M.A., LL.D., demitted 1915.* 1915 ADOLPHUS ALFRED JACK, M.A., LL.M.

There will be four classes, Ordinary Graduation, Advanced Graduation and Honours (Literature and Language). The work of the Advanced and Honours Classes will to some extent coincide.

I.

The Ordinary Graduation Class will meet on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, at 12 Noon throughout the teaching part of all three terms. Tutorial meetings on one or both of the other days will be arranged for as time and assistance render practicable. The work of the class will comprise: (1) a study of the Elements of Style and Principles of Criticism; the Elements of Philology and History of the English Language and of the following set books: Chaucer's "Nonnes Preestes Tale," "Knighte's Tale" and Prologue; Shakespeare's "Macbeth"; Bacon's "Essays" and "Advancement of Learning," Book I; Milton's "Samson Agonistes; Dixon and Grierson's 66 English Parnassus (selected portions); and (2) lectures on the General History of English (including Scottish) Literature, from Chaucer with especial reference to the Elizabethan Drama, and the Victorian Period.

In connection with the lectures a first-hand knowledge of the following will be expected: English Miracle Plays (Dent), Minor Elizabethan Drama (2 vols., Dent), prescribed plays of Shakespeare, Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus," Ruskin's "Unto This Last," Arnold's "Essays in Criticism" (selected), and some of the chief poems of Tennyson, Browning, and Morris.

On appointment to the chair of English Literature in the University of Edinburgh.

Text-books prescribed: Nichol's "Primer of Composition," Nichol and McCormick's " Questions on English Composition," Stopford Brooke's "Primer of English Literature," Mair's "English Literature” (Home University Library); “The Making of English" (Bradley), "The English Parnassus" (Dixon and Grierson).

II.

The Advanced Graduation Class is intended for those who are taking a double course in English, and in Language and Literature the work will be of a more advanced character. Only those as a rule may proceed to the Advanced Class who have satisfied the Professor as to their fitness for advanced work.

The Advanced Class will meet three times a week throughout the teaching part of the three terms. In the first and second terms the lectures will deal mainly with the literature of the eighteenth century. The prescribed books are: The works of Spenser (Oxford); The works of Milton (Oxford); Ward's "English Poets," vol. iii. (Macmillan); Palgrave's "Golden Treasury, "Book II. ; "Essays of John Dryden," Addison's "Critical Essays"; "Johnson on Shakepeare" (Oxford Press); Hurd's "Letters on Chivalry" (Oxford Press); "Horace Walpole, Selected Letters"; Smollett's "Humphrey Clinker" or Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield ".

In connection with the lectures on eighteenth century literature, a first hand knowledge of the following texts is recommended:-

Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis"; Shenstone's "Schoolmistress Thomson's "Seasons and "The Castle of Indolence"; Pope's "Epistle to Arbuthnot," "Moral Essays"; Johnson's Lives of Milton, Pope, Addison; Goldsmith, either "The Bee" or The Citizen of the World"; Cowper's "The Winter's Walk at Noon" (from "The Task ").

III.-HONOURS CLASS (LITERATURE).

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The Honours Class will meet three times a week throughout the three terms. The lectures will deal with the Special Period prescribed for 1920. Books: Shakespeare; selected plays from the works of Lyly, Marlowe, Peele, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster and Massinger (Mermaid Series), Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" (Clarendon Press); Lessing's 'Laocoon," Burke, "On the Sublime and Beautiful"; Wordsworth's "Literary Criticism" (Oxford Press); Coleridge's "Literary Criticism" (Oxford Press); Bradley's "Oxford Lectures"; and others.

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IV. HONOURS CLASS (LANGUage).

Lecturers-1907-11 R. S. Wallace, M.A.
1911 F. E. A. Campbell, Ph.D.

(1915-18) WM. GRANT, M. A. (substitute).

(a) Junior Honours. History of English Language. Translation from Old and Middle English.

Books Sievers-Cook's "Old English Grammar"; Sweet's "Anglo-Saxon
Reader"; Emerson's "Middle-English Reader".

(b) Senior Honours. Language continued. Old and Middle English Literature.

Books: "Beowulf"; "Andreas," "Chaucer's Minor Poems"; Gregory
Smith, "Specimens of Middle Scots".

Students who desire to offer Gothic may at their option attend the lectures
on Gothic, Wright's "Gothic Grammar ".

HUMANITY.

FOUNDED IN 1505.

Patron-THE CROWN.

Professors-1860 (1852) Robert Maclure, LL.D., died 1868. 1868 John Black, M.A., LL.D., died 1881.

1881 James Donaldson, M.A., LL.D., demitted 1886.*

1886 Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., Litt. D., D.D., F.Br. Acad., demitted 1911.

1911 ALEXANDER SOUTER, M. A., D.Litt.

1. The Graduation Humanity Class must be attended by all who desire to take the M.A. Degree in Latin. This class is devoted to the widest and most permanent interests of Latin study. It is intended to be primarily a class of language and literature, and to place before students, in outline, the chief features and interests of Roman History and Latin Literature. There is a Supplementary Class in Summer, which must be attended by all who do not pass the Degree Examination in March. Books to be read in Graduation Class, Winter Session, 1919-1920: Cicero, "Select Letters," ed. Watson, Part I.; Virgil Aeneid," XI.; Tertullian, Apologeticus (Aberdeen University Press edition) chaps. 22-50.

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The examination work for the M.A. Degree in Latin includes (a) Set books, (b) Unseen Translation and Composition, (c) History (both political and literary) and Geography. Candidates are required to pass in each of these three departments separately, and not merely to attain a certain aggregate of marks over all three.

* On appointment to Principalship of St. Andrews University.

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