28 WEBER STAKE ACADEMY and of written work. Two long themes are required during the year, on subjects assigned for special work. HISTORY OF THE ORIENT AND GREECE.Required of second year students in the Classical Course. A general survey of Oriental nations, with special reference to their contribution to Western civilization; the development of the Athenian constitution and the institutions of Sparta; the city-state, with reasons for its development; Athenian culture will be studied as the highest type of Grecian civilization; the contact with the East, and the spread of Hellenism. Three hours per week first half yeur. First half of West's Ancient World, and Myers' Ancient History, Revised, supplementary. ROMAN HISTORY.Required of second year students in the Classical Course. Primitive Italy, the beginnings of Rome, the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the republic; the empire, the intro-duction of Christianity, and the invasions of the barbarians. Special attention will be given to the political history and to the development of Roman law. Three hours per week second half year. Second half of West's Ancient World, and Myers' Ancient History, Revised, supplementary. ENGLISH HISTORY.Required of third year students in the Classical Course. Early England, the conquests by the Germanic tribes, the decline of fendalism, the Renaissance and Reformation in in England, the constitutional development, and the growth of democracy will be considered. Two hours per week throughout the year. Larned's History of England, with Cheyney's Short History of England and Andrews' History of England supplementary. UNITED STATES HISTORY.Required of fourth year students. The period of discovery and exploration, the struggle for the possession of the continent, the Revolutionary war, the formation of the nation, the constitutional and industrial development, the Civil war and reconstuction will be considered. Five hours per week first half year. Channing's Students' History of the United States, and Montgomery's Student's American History supplementary. CIVIL GOVERNMENT.Required of all fourth year students. The course consists of the study of the historical development of American institutions; a careful analysis of our government, national and local; and a discussion of present problems and policies. Five hours. NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 29 per week second half year. Hinsdale's the American Government, and Bryce's American Commonwealth (abridged) supplementary. MODERN HISTORY.--Required of fourth year students in the Normal Course. The Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the feudal system, the reformation, political revolutions, and the growth of ideas of religious liberty and political rights. Three hours per week throughout the year. West's Modern History, and Myers' Mediaeval and Modern History, Revised, supplementary. POLITICAL ECONOMY.Required of Fourth year students in the Commercial Course. The principles underlying production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of wealth are discussed. Three hours per week throughout the year. Bullock's Introduction to the Study of Economics, and Walker's Political Economy, supplementary. Domestic Arts SEWING.During the first term of the first year, instructions are given in plain hand sewing, basting, back-stitching, hemming, over-casting, felling, gathering, French seam, button-holes, loops, eyelets, patching, darning, etc. Each student is made familiar with the management of the sewing machine in running seams, hemming, tucking, ruffling, quilting, binding, etc. The student makes a set of models, covering the full course in hand and machine sewing. Second Term, First Year.Drafting patterns of undergarments; etc.; making skirt, drawers, and corset cover, and fitting and finishing a dress of wash material. DRESSMAKING.Second year; drafting from measurements pat-terns for waists, sleeves, skirts, etc., practice in cutting, basting and fitting, and general dressmaking. ART NEEDLEWORK.Third year, instruction is given in the various kinds of embroidery, drawn work and modern lace-making. Over eighty girls registered in this class during 1905-06; and out of that number there was not one whose work was not commendable, and many of them showed skill in needle work that, for one year's training, is perhaps unsurpassed.