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GRADUATE COURSE.
M. A.
English and American History.—In this higher course, which will
consist of English History up to Christmas, and of American History
the rest of the session, the principles taught in the course preceding
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may be encouraged to exercise independent thought and judgment,
they will be required to write essays on assigned topics. Moreover,
it should be distinctly understood that the text-books are by no
means regarded by the Professor as infallible authorities. On the
contrary, some of them contain much that is emphatically rejected
by him. And yet such books may be exceedingly useful; for to educate
a man is not to stuff him full of cut-and-dried opinions, but rather
to draw forth and develop his own judgment by presenting to his
mind opinions that oppose and even clash violently with each other.
Graduates in General History will derive most benefit from this course.
It may be taken, however, by others; and, as considerable attention
will be paid to constitutional development, students intending to
study Law will find the course of advantage. Candidates for the M. A.
degree selecting History as one of their four subjects must graduate
both in this course and in the preceding. Three lectures a week.
Text Books.—Oman's History of England; Creighton's Age of Elizabeth;
McCarthy's Epoch of Reform; Gardiner's Atlas of English History; and a
number of works on special periods of American History to be announced
later.
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