Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The First Composition Program: Harvard, 1870--1900

Dean Briggs (1926)

Rollo Walter Brown

Three Harvard Catalogue Course Descriptions from Twenty Years of School and College English (1896)

``An Answer to the Cry for More English'' (1879)

Adams Sherman Hill

``The Harvard Admission Examination in English,'' The Academy (1888)

Le Baron Russell Briggs

Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1892)

Charles Francis Adams

Edwin Lawrence Godkin

Josiah Quincy

Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1897)

Charles Francis Adams

Edwin Lawrence Godkin

George R. Nutter

``English at Harvard University,'' in English in American Universities, William Morton Payne (1895)

Barrett Wendell

The New Writing Curriculum, 1895--1915

The Study of Rhetoric in the College Course (1887)

John Franklin Genung

English in American Universities, by Professors in the English Departments of Twenty Representative Institutions (1895)

William Morton Payne

Yale University: Albert Stanburrough Cook

Stanford University: Melville B. Anderson

University of Iowa: Edward Everett Hale Jr.

Indiana University: Martin Wright Sampson

University of California: Charles Mills Gayley

Amherst College: John Franklin Genung

University of Michigan: Fred Newton Scott

University of Nebraska: Lucius Adelno Sherman

University of Pennsylvania: Felix Emanuel Schelling

Wellesley College: Katherine Lee Bates

University of Minnesota: George MacLean

``Report of the Pedagogical Section: The Graduate Study of Rhetoric,'' PMLA 16 (1901)

William Edward Mead

``Report of the Pedagogical Section: The Undergraduate Study of English Composition,'' PMLA 17 (1902)

William Edward Mead

``Report of the Pedagogical Section: Conflicting Ideals in the Teaching of English,'' PMLA 18 (1903)

William Edward Mead

``The Organization of a Course in Freshman English,'' English Journal 4 (1915)

Karl Young

The Attack on the Harvard Program, 1890--1917

``Two Ways of Teaching English,'' Century Magazine 51 (1896)

``Recent Tendencies in the Teaching of English Composition,'' Educational Review 22 (1901)

Gertrude Buck

``On the Teaching of Written Composition,'' Education 30 (1910)

Lane Cooper

``Compulsory Composition in Colleges,'' Harper's Monthly 123 (1911)

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

``English Composition,'' Teaching in School and College (1912)

William Lyon Phelps

``The Correction of Papers,'' English Journal 3 (1914)

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)

Frank Aydelotte

And Gladly Teach (1935)

Bliss Perry

Textbooks for a New Discipline

How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (1875)

Edwin A. Abbott

The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application (1878)

Adams Sherman Hill

The Practical Elements of Rhetoric with Illustrative Examples (1885)

John Franklin Genung

English Composition, Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute (1891)

Barrett Wendell

Paragraph-Writing (1893)

Fred Newton Scott

Joseph Villiers Denney

Compilation of Standard Rules and Regulations Used by the English Department of the University of Oregon (1898)

Luella Clay Carson

Handbook of Composition (1907)

Edwin Campbell Woolley

Six Modern Readers, 1907--1915

Theories of Style: With Especial Reference to Prose Composition (1907)

Lane Cooper

A College Course in Writing from Models (1910)

Frances Campbell Berkeley

Representative Essays in Modern Thought: A Basis for Composition (1913)

Harrison Ross Steeves

Frank Humphrey Ristine

Essays for College Men (1913)

Norman Foerster

Frederick A. Manchester

Karl Young

Essays for College Men Second Series (1915)

Norman Foerster

Frederick A. Manchester

Karl Young

Expository Writing (1912)

Maurice Garland Fulton

The Elements of Style (1918)

William Strunk

Sentences and Thinking: A Practice Book in Sentence Making (1914)

Norman Foerster

John Marcellus Steadman

The Writing of English (1919)

John Matthews Manly

Edith Rickert

Writing the Essay

Examinations from Adams Sherman Hill's English A for the Academic Year 1887--88

``Note for Teachers,'' English Composition, Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute (1894)

Barrett Wendell

A Handbook of English Composition (1895)

James Morgan Hart

``On Criticism of Themes by Students,'' Technology Review 2 (1901)

Robert Grosvenor Valentine

University of Illinois, ``Outline of Rhetoric I'' (1907)

University of Minnesota, ``Instructions to Students in Rhetoric 1--2'' (1913)

Freshman English: A Manual (1914)

Frances Berkeley Young

Karl Young

Thirteen Themes College Readings in English Prose (1914)

Franklin William Scott

Jacob Zeitlin

Ten 1891 Harvard First-Year Composition Essays Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1892)

Charles Francis Adams

Edwin Lawrence Godkin

Josiah Quincy

Eight Harvard Themes Freshman English and Theme-Correcting in Harvard College (1901)

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)

Edwin C. Woolley

Two Anonymous Themes Presented as Samples of Proficient First-Year College Writing (1912)

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)

Howard Eugene Potter

Seven Purdue Papers ``The Preparation in English of Purdue Freshmen,'' Purdue Studies in Higher Education 5 (1926)

Herbett LeSourd Creek

James Hugh McKee

Conclusion

A National Survey of Conditions in Freshman English (1929)

Warner Taylor

Bibliography

Index