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and partly by the study of a text-book. A series of lectures 

 on the great race epochs of English history opened the 

 course, and the text-book has been supplemented by lectures 

 at the close of each literary period. English history and 

 English literature have been, as far as practicable, taught 

 together, and it has been the constant aim to make the one 

 the complement of the other. 



