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Harold Saegar Stine

1930 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Clarence Griffin Child
"The Poetic Diction of Francis Thompson"

Retired September 1965

Dr. Stine was born in Philadelphia in 1895.  He received his A.B. in 1916 and his Ph.D. in 1930 from the University.

Dr. Stine holds memembership in the Modern Language Association of America, Linguistic Society of America, American Dialetc Society, and the National Council of Teachers of English.

Doctoral Dissertations Chaired

1969

Robert F Smith "E.M. Forster Transfigured: A Study in Prose Stylistics"
Lee L Snyder "The Old English Dialect Boundaries: Some Place-Name Evidence"

1968

Philip Buehler "A Glossary of the Middle English Genesis and Exodus"
Louis G Jennings "A Study of the Old English Noun in Later English "
Harold J Kane "A Critical Edition of the Prickynge of Love"

1966

Harry M. Logan "The Dialect of "The life of St. Katherine": A Linguistic Study"

1965

Alice Bradley Griffin Markow "The Language of Sir Thomas Wyatt"
George S Hastings "Two Aspects of Style in the AB Dialect of Middle English "
Lazoras Anastasios Varnas "The Language of the Parker Chronicle"

1964

Henry Dietrich Dyck "Language Differentiation in Two Low German Groups in Canada"
Ann Sullivan Haskell "The Representation of Gullah--Influenced Dialect in Twentieth Century South Carolina Prose"

1963

William Floyd Helmer "Critical Estimates of Beowulf from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present"

1962

Arthur Harold Abel "AElfric and the West-Saxon Gospels"

1961

Robert Anthony Peters "A Study of Old English Words for Demon and Monster and their Relation to English Place-Names"

1960

Mary Isabel Stephens "A Study of the Old English Preface"

1959

Lawrence Edward Guinn "English Runes and Runic Writing: The Development of the Runes and their Employment "

1956

Samuel Ridgeway Levin "Negative Contractions with Old English Verbs"

1951

Joseph Carman Reino "Significant Repetition and Echo in the "Beowulf" "

1949

Nicholas Newlin "The Language of Synge's Plays: The Irish Element"

1931

Ralph Bergen Allen "Old Icelandic Sources in the English Novel"