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Excerpt from A Syllabus in Modern: European, History From Charlemagne, to the Present (800-1920) The present Syllabus lays little claim to originality, particularly in the appendices. It is an outgrowth of throe years experience with the Syllabus by Professor C. J. H. Haves, while at Columbia, and the Columbia University Press has kindly granted us permission to use such portions of this syllabus as we desired. Much use has been made in places of Professor Clarence Perkins' Syllabus on Modern European History, and valuable suggestions have been taken from the Syllabi of Professors Paetow, Burr, Thompson, Poster and Fay and others. The idea of outlining each days lesson as the unit is, we think, peculiar to the present Syllabus as are the suggestive questions at the end of each days assignment. The aim throughout has been to give point to the work of each day. Considerable pains have been spent upon the sections on note taking and the term essay, which in our estimation, arc among the most valuable things to be taught in the course. The purpose of this new' excursion into an old field is only another serious attempt to guide the bewildered college youth carefully through the maze of facts, essential and unessential, in his first college course in history. It is hoped that this manual may also prove of some assistance to overworked instructors in their overcrowded classes of the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.