1900-1901 Academic Catalog

28 Cedarville College. aim is to teach facts of history in such a way as to benefit those who study it, and lead them to high ideas and practices of citizenship. The History of Philosophy is the study of the development of leading universal thought. By indicating the growth of thought and theory it opens avenues to the widest fields of philosophical research. Mythology of Greece and Rome is placed in the Senior Preparatory year for the purpose of more profitable reading in Latin and Greek classics. ENGLISH. English studies are given a prominent place in the curricu­ lum. They begin in the Preparatory year, and are carried more or less throughout the whole course of six years’ study. In the Junior Preparatory year, Reed and Kellogg’s Lessons in Higher English is the text-book in grammar. This consists of work in diagram, analysis, punctuation, abridging, composition, parsing, synthesis and rules of syn­ tax. Rhetoric is studied during two terms of the Senior Pre­ paratory year. The beginner is introduced to the study through Kellogg's work. Here he is made perfectly familiar with the fundamental every-day principles of English com­ position, sentence structure, paragraphing, letter writing, formal addresses and prosody. After completing theEnglishCour.se of the Preparatory Department the student is ready for advanced work in Rhetoric and Composition. Accordingly Genung’s Prac­ tical 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 and Thought. Thus the student is introduced to a wider view of the subject. He is led to the actual construc­ tion of literature, finer principles of literary taste, and the subtler music of rhythm. Style, Diction, Figure of Speech,