48 WEBER ACADEMY, OGDEN, UTAH Preparatory Course This department has been instituted in the Academy, not to take the place of the eighth grade in the public school, but rather to give to those young men and women, who are beyond the public school age, and who are not yet prepared to do high school work, an opportunity to prepare themselves for higher studies in the Academy. GrammarAbundant practice in composition work. Five three-quarter hour recitations per week throughout the year. ArithmeticStandard Arithmetic. Milne completed. Wentworth's High School Arithmetic for supplementary work. Five three-quarter hour recitations per week throughout the year. GeographyTarr and McMurry's Complete Geography with special reference to Utah and Weber County. Five half-hour recitations per week throughout the year. DrawingWork from objects, with some attention to decorative design and historic ornament. Two hour recitations per week throughout the year. PenmanshipVertical and slanting penmanship. Five quarter-hour recitations per week throughout the year. SpellingThis study is required of all Preparatory students. Five quarter-hour recitations per week throughout the year. ReadingSelections from standard authors. Five-three-quarter hour recitations throughout the year. HistoryThomas. Five half hour recitations per week throughout the year. WEBER ACADEMY, OGDEN, UTAH 49 English and Literature English A [Classics, Grammar and Composition] In this course special attention will be given to the technical study of the principles of English Grammar and to work in composition. The aim is to teach students sentence structure, and the use of correct forms of speech. The critical study of one or two selections from a standard English or an American author will be included in this course. Buehler's Modern English Grammar. Five hours per week throughout the year. English B [Classics, Composition and Rhetoric] This course consists of a thorough study of the elementary principles of rhetoric. The application of the principles of rhetoric as seen in the study of Burke's Conciliation with the American Colonies, Goldsmith's Deserted Village, Dickens' Christmas Carrol, etc. Emerson and Lockwood's Rhetoric and Composition, and Kimball's The Sentence, supplementary. Four hours per week throughout the year. English C [Literature]This course is an introduction to the further study of literature. It deals with important historical events that have affected thought as expressed in literature. It includes a study of the development of English literature from Chaucer to Tennyson. Choice selections are studied and taken as a basis for composition work. Simond's History of English Literature. Three hours per week throughout the year. English D [Rhetoric, Advanced]This course gives advanced instruction in principles of rhetoric, and gives the class an opportunity to apply those principles in the writing of essays and short compositions. Students study and analyze rhetorically choice literary selections, and in composition work illustrate the different processes