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B. A. COURSE.
General History.—In this course, which comprises the historical
work required for the B. A. degree, great 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 classroom the entire
length of this stream; for, although constant efforts are made to demonstrate
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. These
periods, and therefore, the text-books studied, may be more or less
varied each year. Three lectures a week.
Text-Books.—Fisher's Outlines of Universal History; Grant's Greece in the
Age of Pericles; Froude's Caesar: Capes's Age of the Antonines; Thatcher's
and Schwill's Europe in the Middle Age; Seebohm's Era of the Protestant
Revolution: Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Longman's Frederick the Great
and the Seven Years' War; Dabney's Causes of the French Revolution;
Morris's French Revolution and First Empire.
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