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GENERAL HISTORY.
Adjunct Professor Dabney.
Stress is laid on the view that the career of man, as revealed in History, is
not a mere jumble of disconnected dates and facts, but a continuous stream,
having its sources and tributaries in the far-off past, its outlet in the remote
future. No attempt is made, however, to traverse in the class-room the
entire length of this stream; for, although constant efforts are made to impress
the vital connection of nation with nation, of generation with generation,
and of anterior with ensuing conditions of historical development, the
lectures are confined to the more important periods, the student being
required to fill the gaps by private reading in a manual of General History.
The periods, and, therefore, the text books, studied, will be more or less varied
each year. Three lectures a week.
Text-books for '89-'90—Fisher's Outlins f Universal Hitory; Coxs Athenin Empire;
Ihne's Early Rome; Beesly's Gracch, Mrius and Sulla; Capes's Early Empire; Church's
Beginning of the Middle Ages; Cox's Crusades; Sbohm' Era of the Prtetant Revolution;
Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Dabne's Caues of the French Revoluton; Morris's
French Revolution and First Empire.
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