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academies, and other learned institutions. Your Committee has dis- 

 cussed this matter, and has decided to endeavor to raise the sum of 

 $1,000 yearly for three years, to be handed over to the Corporation 

 for use by the Department of English in publishing such contributions, 

 either by students or instructors of English, as may seem to merit 

 preservation in permanent form. If the publications thus issued ap- 

 pear to justify this preliminary expenditure, it may seem advisable 

 later to solicit a permanent fund for the Department, or one sufficient 

 to provide for its pressing needs until such time as a publication fund 

 covering all departments of the College is available. 



Since the last report made by your Committee on English Litera- 

 ture, a rearrangement of the courses in English, resulting from a 

 report made December, 1906, by a committee on revision from the 

 Department of English, has been carried out, and is working success- 

 fully. The recommendations of this committee on revision have 

 resulted in the following changes : — 



1. The seven half-courses 32a to 8b, covering English Literature 

 in successive periods from 1557 to 1892, have been discontinued, on 

 the ground that they were substantially a reproduction of the instruc- 

 tion in English 28 (History and Development of English Literature 

 in Outline), and so similar in character and method as hardly to war- 

 rant the amount of time spent by students who took more than two 

 or three of them. 



2. English 28 remains unchanged, but has been brought into closer 

 relations with English Composition. 



3. The seven half -courses above enumerated have been replaced 

 by one full course, English 41 (primarily for undergraduates, but not 

 open to Freshmen, or students who have taken English 28), which 

 covers the history of English Literature from the beginning of the 

 Elizabethan to the present time. 



4. As it appeared that there were few courses of advanced charac- 

 ter concerning English Literature since the Elizabethan period, the 

 Department has established various new courses dealing with im- 

 portant authors (such as Johnson, Scott, Carlyle, and Tennyson) 

 or with important phases of literature (such as the period of Dryden, 

 the Essay, and the Romantic poets of the early Nineteenth Century) . 



5. The energies of the Department are also being especially 

 directed to the development and maintenance of advanced courses 

 (primarily for graduates), in order that the permanent offering of 

 such courses by the University may be so copious and comprehensive 

 as to invite constantly the attendance of scholars. 



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The attention of the Overseers is also called to the Department of 

 Comparative Literature. Many of its courses are germane to the 

 advanced courses in English Literature, and are given by professors 

 of the English Department. These courses, which deal with the 

 influences of the various European literatures upon one another, 

 have greatly widened and enriched the field of study open both to 

 undergraduates and graduates. 



MOORFIELD STOREY, Chairman, 

 For the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric. 



ROBERT GRANT, Chairman, 

 For the Committee on English Literature. 



May 11, 1910. 



