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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (higher)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Amherst College English Department Records

 Record Group
Identifier: MA.00065
Abstract

Assignments, examinations, student papers, course descriptions, reading lists and excerpts, and other material pertaining to the English Department and its courses, chiefly 1930-1970.

Dates: 1879-1977; Majority of material found within 1930s-1960s

Eastman, Henry Edward (AC 1830) - dissertation: "The Study of the English Language", 1830

 Item — Box 7, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.

Dates: 1830

Sidney Brooks (AC 1841) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00329
Abstract

Sidney Brooks of Harwich, Mass. attended Phillips Academy in Andover before attending Amherst College from 1837 to 1841. His papers include thirty-five letters, a ledger of his expenses, and writings from his school days.

Dates: 1834-1864