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Show 34 WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE principles of educational systems that have been in vogue, the evolution of educational thought, showing how the present systems have grown out of those of the past. Five hours during second semester. Seeley's History of Education. Required of all fourth year Normals. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING. Special attention will be given to vital school room problems as well as to the relation of the school to the community. Psychology a is a prerequisite to this course. Five hours throughout second semester. Text: Keith's Elementary Education. Required of all third year Normal students. Languages LATIN a. The principles of Latin grammar and syntax are taught, and vocabulary practice is carried on daily. Short reading lessons embodying the principles learned are translated from Latin to English and from English to Latin. The translations from Latin to English are short fables, parts of Viri Romae, and some of the simpler chapters of Caesar. Collar and Daniell's First Year Latin is the text used. Four hours per week throughout the year. LATIN b. Translations of parts of Viri Romea and three books of Caesar from the second year work in Latin. Special attention is given to syntax, and written composition based on the text read as a form of practice. Miller and Beeson's Second Latin Book is the text used. Four hours per week throughout the year. LATIN c . Cicero's four orations against Cataline and the orations pro poeta Archia and M. Marcello are translated. A study of the subjunctive mood and conditional sentences. Composition work based on the text. Four hours per week throughout the year. Dooge's Cicero and Daniell's New Latin Composition. LATIN d. Six books of Virgil's AEneid are translated. Special attention will be given to prosody and WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE 35 Greek and Roman Mythology. Three hours per week throughout the year. GERMAN a. The object of this course is to acquire a working vocabulary and gain some idea of the grammatical construction of the language. German will be largely the language of the class room. Becker's Elements of German, followed by Van Dael's Preparatory German Reader. Four hours per week throughout the year. GERMAN b. More attention will be given to gram-mar and more difficult German prose will be read. Thomas's Practical German Grammar, and Bernhard's Prose Composition, followed by easy classics and sight reading from the Book of Mormon. Four hours per week throughout the year. GERMAN C. A systematic review of the grammar based from Joynes-Meissner, or Thomas's Practical Grammar, followed by a more extensive study of the drama and the lyrics. Four hours per week throughout the year. Physical Science PHYSICS a. A study of elementary mechanics and the phenomena of sound, light, heat, magnetism, and electricity. Numerous lecture table experiments are performed to illustrate the principles studied. Each student is required to work two hours per week in the laboratory, and to keep a note book in which the observations and results must be tabulated. Three hours' recitation and two hours' laboratory work per week throughout the year. Text: Millikan and Gale's First Course in Physics and Millikan's Laboratory Manual. Physics b is a continuation of Physics a. CHEMISTRY a. The fundamental theories of general chemistry and the non-metallic and more common metallic elements are studied; the balancing of equations, the |