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M. A.

English and American History.—In this higher course the principles
taught in the one preceding will be applied to a more special field;
and, in order that the students 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.—Gardiner's History of England; Green's Short History of the
English People; Gardiner's Atlas of English History; Percy Greg's History
of the United States; Thwaites's Colonies; Hart's Formation of the Union;
Wilson's Division and Re-union; Curry's Southern States of the American
Union.