1901-1902 Academic Catalog

28 Cedarville College. The History of Civilization deals with the elements of human progress and the principles of national development. Its 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 phil– osophical 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 curriculum. 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 Eng– lish is the text-book in grammar. This consists of work in dia– gram, analysis, punctuation, abridging, composition, parsmg, synthesis and rule of syntax. Rhetoric is studied during two terms of the Senior Prepara– tory year. The beginner is introduced to the studv through Kellogg's work. Here he is mad~ perfectly familia r with the fundamental every-day principles of English compos1hon, sen– tence structure, paragraphing, letter writing, formal addresses and prosody. After completing the English Course of the Preparatory De– partment the student is ready for advanced work in Rhetoric and Composition. Accordingly Geming's Practical Elements is taken up at the beginning of the Freshman yecir, and the more difficult and important parts of that book are tudied-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 construction of literature, finer principles of literary taste, and the subtler music of rhytm. Style, Diction,