20 WEBER STAKE ACADEMY PENMANSHIP.Vertical and slanting penmanship. Five quarter hour recitations per week throughout the year. ORTHOGRAPHY.This study is required of all Preparatory students. Five quarter hour recitations per week throughout the year. READING.Selections from standard authors. Five three-quarter hour recitations per week throughout the year. HISTORY.Thomas. Five half-hour recitations per week throughout the year. Commercial Subjects BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE.After the mastery of letter forms and fundamental principles of letter writing the student is given practical work in conducting all kinds of business correspondence. BOOKKEEPING.A practical course where work is entirely individual. The student is employed as bookkeeper in what is first a simple business, and through the services of a kind and instructive employer and by learning to do by doing, he developes proficiency as he grows with the business. A thorough study is made of basic principles and underlying rules. COMMERCIAL LAW.This course comprises a study of those matters of law that have constant application to business life; contracts, negotiable instruments, liens, guaranty and suretyship, interest and usury, sale of personal and real property, waranty, bailment, agency, partnership, joint stock companies and corporations, insurance, common carriers, attachment, stoppage in transit, real estate, banking, taxes, distribution after death, property rights, etc. COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY A study of the commerce and leading industries of the world, treating of the influence of geographical location, relief, soils, and climate, in determing the character of natural resources; the development of greater industries; the location of commercial and industrial centers; and routes of trade. HISTORY OF COMMERCE.The test in commercial geography persupposes some general knowledge of political and commercial history as preliminary to the study of the present trend of commerce. For this reason the history of commerce is given. The origin, early