1897-1898 Academic Catalog

'2 . Cedarville College. thought and theory it opens avenues to the widest fields of phil- 0sophical research. 1ythology of Greece and Rome is placed in the Junior Preparatory year for the purpose of more profitable reading in the Latin and Greek classics. E GLISH. English studies are given a prommt:nt place in the curricu– lum. They begin in the Junior Preparatory year and are carried more or less throughout the whole course of six years' study. In tbe Junior Preparatory year Reed and Kellogg's Graded Lessons in Higher English is the text-book in grammar. This consists of work in diagram, analysis, punctuation, abridging, composition, parsing, c,ynthesis and rules of syntax. Rhetoric is studied during the entire Senior Preparatory year. The beginner is introduced to the study through Kellogg's work. Here he is made perfectly familiar wit!-1 the fundamen– tal every-day principles of English composition. The remainder of the year is spent on sentence structure, paragraphing, letter writing, formal addre .;es and prosody as presented in Hart's Rhetoric. After completing the English Course of the Preparatory Department the student is ready for advanced work in Rhetoric and Composition. Accordingly Genung's Practical Elements is taken up at the beginning of the Freshman year, and the more difficult and important parts of that book are studied-such as Style, Composition, Figures of Speech, Invention an<l Thought. Thu the student is introduced to a. wider view of the subject. He is led to the actual construction of literature, finer principles of literary taste and the subtler music of rythm. Style, Diction, Figures of Speech, Composition, Invention, Aptitude and Habits, Thought, Objects, arration, Generalization, Argumentation and Persuasion are taken up separately and studied at length. Along with the Practical Elements, Genung's Handbook of Rhetorical Analysis is used. This is designed to alternate from time to time with the Practical Elements.