PH. D.
This course will be as far as possible adapted to the needs and prospective
careers 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.
For 1899-1900 the course proposed will be an investigation of the Literary
History of the Southern States prior to 1860.
