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1 1 8 ACADEMIC DEPAR TMENT.
HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.
By action of the Board of Trustees,
versity by
in view of the gift to the Uni
ex-President Andrew D. White of his valuable historical
library, the departments of History and Political Science have been
named The President White School of History and Political
Science. The work of these departments is carried on by five pro
fessors, one assistant professor, and two instructors.
A. Ancient and Mediaeval History.
As a general introduction to the study of history a seminary course
of two hours weekly deals with the scope, the materials, and the
methods of the study, with the sciences auxiliary to history, and with
the elements of historical geography. This course is meant, however,
not for beginners but for those fitting themselves for the teaching or
of writing history. A two-hour course of alternate lectures and ex
aminations, running through two years, is devoted to the history and
civilization of ancient Greece and Rome. It is intended only for
those who have not had pre-university training in these subjects.
( Courses on the life and the antiquities of the Greeks and the Romans
are offered by the professors of Greek and of Latin ; and the history
of the Orient is treated in a course of two years by the professor of
Semitics. ) The general history, political, social, and ecclesiastical,
of the Middle Ages, is dealt with in a lecture course of three hours
throughout the year, alternating with a similar course on the Age of
the Renaissance and the Reformation. For training in historical re
search in this field there is offered a year's seminary course ; the class
is first familiarized with the mediaeval Latin which is the language of
the sources, then taught to read the manuscripts and to interpret the
documents of the Middle Ages, and, thus fitted, is in the third term
set at the critical study of some event, period, or author, in free use of
the resources of the library.
B. Modern European History.
The department of Modern European which History, includes
English History in its entirety, offers four courses of lectures, each ex
tending through the academic year. In Modern European History the
general course, which is intended for Juniors, covers from the begin
ning of the 17th century to the present time, one devoting term to the
17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, respectively. Students who have
taken this course are permitted to attend the more advanced lectures,
Napo-
devoted to special periods, such as the French Revolution, the