(C.) FOUNDERS OF CHAIRS, LECTURESHIPS, ETC.-Continued. 1927 Lady Mary Anne Anderson and the late Sir George Anderson, Edinburgh, formerly Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland The Rt. Hon. Viscount Cowdray, P.C., G.C.V.O. ̈ DESIGNATION OF CHAIRS, LECTURE SHIPS, ETC. Bequest for Equipment of Department of Engineering. Gift for the benefit of the University. Gift towards foun dation of Chair of Forestry. John Grant, M.A., Dufftown, in memory of his Gift for foundation mother and mother-in law of John Grant Fund for the assistance of Students in the Faculty of Arts who may fall ill while they are Matriculated Students of the University. Bequest for foundation of Alexander Thomson Lectureship in Mercantile Law. Synopsis of Classes. ENGLISH LITERATURE. FOUNDED IN 1893 IN TERMS OF BEQUEST BY THE LATE Patron-THE CROWN. Professor-1894 Herbert John Clifford Grierson, M. A., LL.D., demitted 1915.* 1915 ADOLPHUS ALFRED JACK, M.A., LL.M., LL.D. The Founder desired that one of the purposes of the Chair should be that the "Professor shall be bound and obliged, if required by the said University Court, in addition to teaching the Class or Classes of Art Students . . to give a separate course of a more popular character and available for students paying a modified Entrance Fee in place of a Matriculation Fee," The University Court on 28th November, 1922, resolved "that in the meantime there is no occasion for so binding and obliging the Professor." 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. ORDINARY CLASS. 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 "Prologue," "The Knightes Tale," "The Nonne Priestes Tale" (Ed. Skeat, Clarendon Press); Shakespeare's "Macbeth"; Bacon's "Essays" and "Advancement of Learning," Book I; Milton's "Samson Agonistes; Dixon and Grierson's "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 Eighteenth Century. In connection with the lectures a first-hand knowledge of the following books, among others, will be expected: Prescribed poems *On appointment to the chair of English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. of Chaucer, English Miracle Plays (Dent), Minor Elizabethan Drama (2 vols., Dent), prescribed plays of Shakespeare, Milton's Earlier Poems," Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel," Pope's "Rape of the Lock," "Essay on Criticism," and "Essay on Man," "Lyrical Ballads," Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus," and "Past and Present," Ruskin's "Unto This Last," and Arnold's " Essays in Criticism" (selected). Text-books prescribed: Nichol's "Primer of Composition," Nichol and McCormick's "Questions on English Composition," Stopford Brooke's "Primer of English Literature," ""An Outline History of English Literature," by W. H. Hudson (Bell and Sons); "The Making of English" (Bradley), "The English Parnassus" (Dixon and Grierson). II. ADVANCED Class. 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 Chaucer, the Middle Scots Poets, Spenser and Milton, and the literature of the Victorian Period. The prescribed books are: The works of Chaucer (Oxford); The works of Spenser (Oxford); The works of Milton (Oxford); and for the Victorian Period: The works of Tennyson (Macmillan or Oxford); The works of Browning (World's Classics); and selections from the poetical works of Arnold (Macmillan or Oxford); and Rossetti (World's Classics); The Early Romances of William Morris (Dent, Everyman's Library), and the following novels : "Vanity Fair," "Esmond," "Martin Chuzzlewit," "Silas Marner," etc. For the lectures on Language the text-books are Cook's "First Book of Old English," and Earle's "History of Anglo-Saxon Literature". III. HONOURS CLASS (LITERATURE). Lecturer-1921 W. D. TAYLOR, M.A. The Honours Class will meet three times a week throughout the three terms. The lectures will deal with the History of Criticism, and with the Literary period "From 1798 to 1850". Special stress will be laid on Scott, Miss Austen and the Brontës, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and some of the critical writings of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Lamb and Hazlitt. Critical books to which special attention will be called are:-Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, Butcher; Sidney's Defence of Poesy; Bacon's Advancement of Learning; Burke on the Sublime; Lessing's Laocoon (ed. Phillimore, World's Classics); Wordsworth's Prefaces; Coleridge's Biographia Literaria; Arnold's Literary Criticism; Bradley's Oxford Lectures and others. For the Senior Honours Class a Course of Lectures will also be delivered (three times a week during the first two terms), on Eighteenth Century Literature. For the Lectures the following books are recommended : The Poetical Works of Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins and Cowper. Ward's English Poetry (Vol. III.). Essays of John Dryden (W. P. Ker's edition). Johnson's Lives of Milton, Pope, Addison. Hurd's "Letters on Chivalry." Scottish poetry in the Eighteenth Century. Letters of Walpole, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Cowper. IV. HONOURS CLASS (LANGUAGE). Lecturers-1907-11 R. S. Waliace, M.A. 1911 F. E. A. Campbell, Ph.D., demitted 1920. 1921 C. COLLEER ABBOTT, M.A., B.A., Ph.D. (a) The Junior Honours Class (Section A and Section B) will meet three times a week. This class will study English Language and the following prescribed books: Sweet, "Anglo-Saxon Reader"; reference to R. W. Chambers, "England before the Norman Conquest"; Morris and Skeat, "Specimens of Early English," Parts I. and II. ; W. P. Ker, "English Literature, Medieval"; and Gregory Smith, "Specimens of Middle Scots." This (b) The Senior Honours Class (Section B, Language and Literature). class will study the development of English Language to Chaucer (for which the works of Sievers, Wright, Sweet, Toller, Wyld and Jespersen will form a basis); the History of English Literature from the Origins to Chaucer, and of Scottish Literature to Lyndsay; and, in detail," Beowulf," "Elene," "The Owl and the Nightingale," "Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight," "Piers the Plowman," the Early Lyric, Chaucer, "Rauf Coil gear," Kingis Quair," Henryson and Dunbar. For further information on prescribed books see under Examinations for Honours English (papers 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11) under the Faculty of Arts section of this Calendar). HUMANITY. FOUNDED IN 1505. Patron-THE CROWN. Professors-1860 (1852) Robert Maclure, LL. D., died 1868. 1881 James Donaldson, M.A., LL. D., demitted 1886.* 1911 ALEXANDER SOUTER, M. A., D.Litt., D.D., F.B.A. * On appointment to Principalship of St. Andrews University. 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 interest 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, 1927-1928; Cicero, "Select Letters," ed. How, letters 60-77; Seneca, "De Beneficiis," V., VI. (Aberdeen University Press edition); "Roman Home Life and Religion," a reader, by H. L. Rogers and T. R. Harley (from page 75). Students are expected to use the Professor's "Hints on Translation from Latin into English" (S.P.C.K., 1920). 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. 2. The Advanced Latin Class meets with part of the Honours Class, in the Winter and Spring Terms, and receives instruction with a view either to the Advanced Degree (simply) or to the Honours Degree (ultimately). All students are required to attend the Roman History Class concurrently (see below). Book to be read in Advanced Class, Winter Session, 1927-1928: Tertullian, "Apology," chaps. 22-50 (Aberdeen University Press edition). The examination work for the Advanced Degree is (a) the same as that prescribed for the Ordinary Degree, (b) a special book (for 1928, Tertullian, "Apology," chaps. 22-50) (c) a special period of Roman History (for 1928, the period 43-19 B.C.). 3. The Honours Latin Class meets five hours per fortnight throughout the Academical year. Certain works of Latin writers are read, generally selected from those prescribed for Honours. It is intended to be combined with the Roman History Class, on which see below. The Honours Latin Class is normally divided into two sections, Junior and Senior. In all the Latin classes regular exercises are provided in translation, composition, etc. Members of the Honours and Advanced Classes receive tutorial instruction, over and above the ordinary teaching. Students are expected to use the Professor's "Hints on the Study of Latin (A.D. 125-750) " (S.P.C.K., 1920). ROMAN HISTORY. There will be a course of lectures on some special branch of Roman History or Antiquities given each Winter Session (1927 |