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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 source, 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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