DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND HISTORY.
NEW CADETS AND FOURTH CLASS.
English: Essential principles of rhetoric; frequent practice in various forms of written and oral composition, including personal and official correspondence and official forms; study of selected literary masterpieces, and of essentials in the history of English literature and language.
History: Political, social and economic history from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day; study of typical forms of modern national and municipal governments; fundamental principles of civil government, historically considered, with special reference to the United States.
TEXT BOOKS—ENGLISH.
- English Composition. Henry S. Canby and others.
- Golden Treasury, Everyman’s Library Edition. Palgrave.
- Shakespeare’s Works.
- Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.
- Selections from Addison, selections from Macaulay, selections from Stevenson, and Carlyle’s Heroes and Hero-Worship.
TEXT-BOOKS—HISTORY.
- A Political History of Modern Europe. F. Schwill.
- The Development of Modern Europe. J. H. Robinson and C. A. Beard.
- Readings in Modern European History, Vol. II. Robinson and Beard.
- The Development of the State. Dealey.