The Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces 35 new courses to be added to or substituted for the elective courses announced last year, and 18 courses to be withdrawn, exclusive of the withdrawal of all the half-courses in the English department, which deal with half-century periods of English literature. No announcement of courses of Comparative Literature, which take their names from other departments has yet been made.
The most important change made, is the withdrawal of all 50-year period English half-courses, and the substitution of new half-courses, which are to deal with the development of particular forms of English literature. The new English courses are: English 41, English Literature from Elizabethan times, by Professor Wendell and Mr. Castle; English 41a hf., open to students who take English 41; English 52 hf., on Johnson and his Circle, by Mr. Copeland; English 53 hf., Scott, by Mr. Copeland; English 9 hf., Spenser, by Dr. Maynadier; English 50 hf., on Dryden and the Transition Period, by Dr. Greenough; English 51 hf., on Addison and the Periodical Essay, by Dr. Greenough; English 24 2-hf., on the poets of the Remantic period, by Professor Neilson; English 54 1-hf., on Carlyle, by Professor Perry; English 55 1-hf., on Tennyson, by Professor Perry.
In the Greek department, Greek 17 2-hf., and Greek 11 will be withdrawn, and Greek 14 1-hf., on Lucien and his times, by Professor Gulick, and a revival of Greek 16 1-hf., on Lucien and his times, by Professor Gulick, and a revival of Greek 16 1-hf., on the Iliad, by Professor Harris will be added.
In the German department, Professor Kuehnemann's half-course, German 30, by Professor White, and German 90 hf. and German 11b 2-hf., by Professor Franke will be withdrawn, and German 32, on Bismarck by Professor White, and German 17 1-hf., on Walther von der Vogelweide, by Professor White, have been added.
French 13 will be merged into French 10 and this and French 9, on sixteenth century and seventeenth century French respectively, will be given on alternate years by Professor Wright. He will also give a new course on French prose in the sixteenth century, called French 21. French 13 and French 14 will be withdrawn.
In History, Professor Emerton will revive an old course, to be called History 6. Professor Haskins will give History 9a 1-hf., on the Constitutional History of England to the Great Charter, and Dr. Prothers will give History 9b 2-hf., on the Constitutional History of England from the Great Charter to the sixteenth century. History 34 1-hf will be withdrawn.
Economics 19 2-hf. will be withdrawn and Economics 20e on American Taxation and Finance, by Professor Bullock, will be given.
Four new courses are offered in Philosophy: Philosophy 21a hf., on Animal Behavior, by Professor Yerkes; Philosophy 5, on Philosophical Thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Professor Royce; Philosophy 6 1-hf., on Lucretius, Dante and Goethe's Philosophical works, by Professor Santayana; Philosophy 20e, on the Theory of Knowledge, by Professor Perry. Philosophy 20e has been withdrawn and Philosophy 10 has been reduced to a half-course.
In Education, Education 5 1-hf. has been withdrawn and 5a 1-hf., on Modern Theories of Education, by Professor Norton, and 5b 1-hf., on Education of the Individual, by Professor Norton, will be substituted.
Mathematics 20a and 20c will be withdrawn and three new courses will be added: Mathematics 20b, on Elementary Mathematics, by Professor Huntington and Dr. Coolidge; Mathematics 20c., on Ellipsoidal Harmonic Analysis by Professor Byerly; and Mathematics 20g., on Differential Geometry, by Professor Whittemore.
A new course is added in Physics, called Physics 18, on the Application of Vector Analysis to Problems of Electro-magnetism, by Professor Peirce, and in Engineering, courses 16a and 20g have been withdrawn, and 16e has been made a double course.
Geography C2-hf., on Economic Georgraphy, by Professor Johnson, and Geography 2 1-hf. on South America, by Professor Ward, have been added.
Meteorology 1 1-hf. has been withdrawn and Climatology 3 1-hf., on the Climatology of Eastern New Hampshire, by Professor Ward, has been added. Mining and Metallurgy 16 1-hf., on Introduction to Mining and Metallurgy, by Professor Peters, has been added; and three half-courses, Mining 21, on Milling and Mining Machinery, by Professor Rayner; Mining 25 1-hf., on Magnetic Methods of Prospecting, by Professor Smyth; and Mining 27 2-hf., on Iron Blast Furnaces and their Products, by Professor Sauveur.
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