The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1925

by Brereton, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780822955351
• ISBN10: 0822955350
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-04
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	3	(23)
The First Composition Program: Harvard, 1870--1900	26	(106)
Dean Briggs (1926)	28	(5)
Rollo Walter Brown
Three Harvard Catalogue Course Descriptions from Twenty Years of School and College English (1896)	33	(12)
``An Answer to the Cry for More English'' (1879)	45	(12)
Adams Sherman Hill
``The Harvard Admission Examination in English,'' The Academy (1888)	57	(16)
Le Baron Russell Briggs
Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1892)	73	(28)
Charles Francis Adams
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Josiah Quincy
Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1897)	101	(26)
Charles Francis Adams
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
George R. Nutter
``English at Harvard University,'' in English in American Universities, William Morton Payne (1895)	127	(5)
Barrett Wendell
The New Writing Curriculum, 1895--1915	132	(104)
The Study of Rhetoric in the College Course (1887)	133	(24)
John Franklin Genung
English in American Universities, by Professors in the English Departments of Twenty Representative Institutions (1895)	157	(29)
William Morton Payne
Yale University: Albert Stanburrough Cook	160	(1)
Stanford University: Melville B. Anderson	161	(3)
University of Iowa: Edward Everett Hale Jr.	164	(2)
Indiana University: Martin Wright Sampson	166	(2)
University of California: Charles Mills Gayley	168	(4)
Amherst College: John Franklin Genung	172	(5)
University of Michigan: Fred Newton Scott	177	(4)
University of Nebraska: Lucius Adelno Sherman	181	(1)
University of Pennsylvania: Felix Emanuel Schelling	182	(1)
Wellesley College: Katherine Lee Bates	183	(2)
University of Minnesota: George MacLean	185	(1)
``Report of the Pedagogical Section: The Graduate Study of Rhetoric,'' PMLA 16 (1901)	186	(16)
William Edward Mead
``Report of the Pedagogical Section: The Undergraduate Study of English Composition,'' PMLA 17 (1902)	202	(15)
William Edward Mead
``Report of the Pedagogical Section: Conflicting Ideals in the Teaching of English,'' PMLA 18 (1903)	217	(16)
William Edward Mead
``The Organization of a Course in Freshman English,'' English Journal 4 (1915)	233	(3)
Karl Young
The Attack on the Harvard Program, 1890--1917	236	(77)
``Two Ways of Teaching English,'' Century Magazine 51 (1896)	238	(3)
``Recent Tendencies in the Teaching of English Composition,'' Educational Review 22 (1901)	241	(10)
Gertrude Buck
``On the Teaching of Written Composition,'' Education 30 (1910)	251	(10)
Lane Cooper
``Compulsory Composition in Colleges,'' Harper's Monthly 123 (1911)	261	(26)
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
``English Composition,'' Teaching in School and College (1912)	287	(4)
William Lyon Phelps
``The Correction of Papers,'' English Journal 3 (1914)	291	(9)
Lane Cooper
``The History of English as a College Subject in the United States,'' The Oxford Stamp and Other Essays: Articles from the Educational Creed of an American Oxonian (1917)	300	(11)
Frank Aydelotte
And Gladly Teach (1935)	311	(2)
Bliss Perry
Textbooks for a New Discipline	313	(124)
How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (1875)	316	(4)
Edwin A. Abbott
The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application (1878)	320	(7)
Adams Sherman Hill
The Practical Elements of Rhetoric with Illustrative Examples (1885)	327	(5)
John Franklin Genung
English Composition, Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute (1891)	332	(11)
Barrett Wendell
Paragraph-Writing (1893)	343	(10)
Fred Newton Scott
Joseph Villiers Denney
Compilation of Standard Rules and Regulations Used by the English Department of the University of Oregon (1898)	353	(5)
Luella Clay Carson
Handbook of Composition (1907)	358	(14)
Edwin Campbell Woolley
Six Modern Readers, 1907--1915	372	(34)
Theories of Style: With Especial Reference to Prose Composition (1907)	373	(5)
Lane Cooper
A College Course in Writing from Models (1910)	378	(8)
Frances Campbell Berkeley
Representative Essays in Modern Thought: A Basis for Composition (1913)	386	(4)
Harrison Ross Steeves
Frank Humphrey Ristine
Essays for College Men (1913)	390	(1)
Norman Foerster
Frederick A. Manchester
Karl Young
Essays for College Men Second Series (1915)	391	(1)
Norman Foerster
Frederick A. Manchester
Karl Young
Expository Writing (1912)	392	(14)
Maurice Garland Fulton
The Elements of Style (1918)	406	(9)
William Strunk
Sentences and Thinking: A Practice Book in Sentence Making (1914)	415	(14)
Norman Foerster
John Marcellus Steadman
The Writing of English (1919)	429	(8)
John Matthews Manly
Edith Rickert
Writing the Essay	437	(108)
Examinations from Adams Sherman Hill's English A for the Academic Year 1887--88	439	(7)
``Note for Teachers,'' English Composition, Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute (1894)	446	(4)
Barrett Wendell
A Handbook of English Composition (1895)	450	(8)
James Morgan Hart
``On Criticism of Themes by Students,'' Technology Review 2 (1901)	458	(12)
Robert Grosvenor Valentine
University of Illinois, ``Outline of Rhetoric I'' (1907)	470	(2)
University of Minnesota, ``Instructions to Students in Rhetoric 1--2'' (1913)	472	(5)
Freshman English: A Manual (1914)	477	(14)
Frances Berkeley Young
Karl Young
Thirteen Themes College Readings in English Prose (1914)	491	(15)
Franklin William Scott
Jacob Zeitlin
Ten 1891 Harvard First-Year Composition Essays Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1892)	506	(8)
Charles Francis Adams
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Josiah Quincy
Eight Harvard Themes Freshman English and Theme-Correcting in Harvard College (1901)	514	(11)
C. T. Copeland
H. M. Rideout
A University of Wisconsin First-Year Student Essay ``Admission to Freshman English in the University,'' English Journal 3 (1914)	525	(1)
Edwin C. Woolley
Two Anonymous Themes Presented as Samples of Proficient First-Year College Writing (1912)	526	(2)
Six University of California Placement Essays Abilities and Disabilities in the Use of English Found in the Written Compositions of Entering Freshmen at the University of California (1922)	528	(9)
Howard Eugene Potter
Seven Purdue Papers ``The Preparation in English of Purdue Freshmen,'' Purdue Studies in Higher Education 5 (1926)	537	(8)
Herbett LeSourd Creek
James Hugh McKee
Conclusion	545	(18)
A National Survey of Conditions in Freshman English (1929)	545	(18)
Warner Taylor
Bibliography	563	(12)
Index	575