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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 Cæsar; 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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