IGO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



KEPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 



To the President of the College : 



During the two years for which tlie following report is made, it has been 

 my duty, a part of the time, to give instruction in classes not belonging prop- 

 erly to my department ; and some of the work in my department has been 

 done by other officers. By recent changes in the course of study, French 

 giving place iu part to additional English studies, and by the creation of a 

 new department of instruction, the department of English Language and 

 Literature becomes more clearly defined. By the addition of an officer for 

 the added department, which does not as yet demand a professor's full time, 

 I have been greatly aided in the work in English. The distribution of studies 

 between Prof. Harrower and myself will be seen in the following report: 



The course in English, as arranged at present, embraces five full terms' 

 work: First term, Freshma*! year, elementary rhetoric; third term, Fresh- 

 man year, rhetorical praxis; second term. Sophomore year, studies in 

 English masterpieces ; second term, Junior year, advance rhetoric; convic- 

 tion and persuasion; and third term. Junior year, English literature. All 

 the classes meet weekly for rhetorical exercises according to the subjoined 

 scheme : 



FRESIIMAN". 



First Term. — Essays once a fortnight in Rhetoric class; two declamations. 

 Second Term. — One exercise a week reading and studying some English 

 classic. 



Third Term. — Essays in Rhetoric classes; declamation every three weeks. 



SOPHOMORE. 



First Term. — Declamations and essays, three exercises. 



Second Term. — Essays in class in Higher English; two declamations. 



Third Term. — Two original declamations delivered before the class. 



JUNIOR. 



First Term. — Two essays on assigned subjects; public orations. 

 Second Term. — Three essays in Rhetoric class; public orations. 

 Third Term. — Two critical essays in English Literature; public orations. 



SEXIOR. 



First Term. — Two essays on assigned subjects, or debates; public orations. 

 Second Term. — Two essays on assigned subjects ; public orations. 

 Third Term. — Two essays; public orations. 



PUBLIC EXERCISES. 



Upon each alternate Wednesday, members of the Junior and Senior classes 

 deliver orations in presence of all the students. Two orations are to be thus 

 presented by each student during his Junior year, and two during his Senior 

 year. 



During the autumn term of 1880 I had charge of the Sophomore class in 



