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PH. D. COURSE.

This course will be, in some measure, adapted to the needs of the students
desiring to pursue it. Its purposes will be to cultivate more fully the love of
letters, to encourage independent and scholarly research, and to further the
art of literary expression. It will include the study of some writer, or
school of writers, or of some period or movement of literature, and will take
into consideration the political, social, and literary characteristics of the time
under discussion.