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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 textbooks
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
are studied side by side, the professor giving his own views
of each and encouraging the students also to think for
themselves. 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.
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