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GRADUATE COURSE.

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.