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Show 14 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT, PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. Pedagogy.Required of students in the second and the third years of the Normal Course. Parker's Talks on Pedagogy, Spencer's Education, and Painter's History of Education will be used as texts. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. Psychology.The subjects of consciousness, sensation and the nervous system, instinct and habit, emotion and will, are discussed. Students of history and literature, as well as those preparing to teach, will find this study a profitable one. Gordy's Psychology and James, Briefer Course. Five recitations per week, second semester. LANGUAGES. Latin I.The aim in this course is to acquire an elementary knowledge of Latin grammar and a sufficient vocabulary to read Caesar with some ease. Smiley and Starke's Beginners Latin Book. The second book of Caesar's Gallic War or an equivalent, is also translated. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. Latin II.Three books of Caesar and two orations of Cicero are translated. Considerable attention is paid to syntax and indirect discourse. Exercises in composition, based upon the text, will be given. Greenough's Caesar and Daniell's Latin Composition. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. Latin III.-Five orations of Cicero are read and exercises in prose composition are given. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. Latin IV.Six books of Virgil's Aeneid are translated. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. German I.Joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Part I., and Keller's German Reader, with drill in conversation. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. German II.Part II. of Joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Schiller's William Tell, Nathan der Weise, and Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. German III.Three recitations per week, first and second semesters. Goethe's Faust, Part I. Schiller's Marie Stuart, and Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm. WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 15 ENGLISH AND LITERATURE. English I.This course consists of a thorough study of the elementary principles of rhetoric from some standard text book, and in connection with some of the following: Webster's "Bunker Hill Orations," Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," Dickens' "Christmas Carol," etc. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. English II.A critcal study of some of the following: Burke's "Conciliation," "Roger de Coverly Papers," Tennyson's "Princess," "Flight of the Tarters," "The Ancient Mariner," Scott's "Ivanhoe," Macaulay's "Milton arid Addison," Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite." Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. English III.The history of English Literature will be carefully considered, and several classic productions of leading English authors studied. Painter's History of English Literature as text. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. Composition work will be required in connection with all the courses in English. NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. Physics.This course deals with the physical properties of matter, physical units of measurements, mechanics, sound, light, heat, electricity, magnetism, and physical theories. Recitations, experiments, and visits to power houses. Wentworth and Hill's Physics. Five recitations per week, first and second semesters. General Chemistry.The aim is to give a general knowledge of the science of chemistry. The non-metallic and the more common metallic elements are studied, and work is given in the balancing of equations an 1 the solving of problems. Daily laboratory work is required. Williams' General Chemistry. Five recitations per week, first semester. Qualitative Analysis.The work in this course consists of the analysis of salts, solutions, minerals, mineral waters, etc. Considerable blowpipe work is also given. Recitations and reports. Noyes' Qualitative Chemical Analysis. Five recitations per week, second semester. Zoology.The aim in this course is to give a general view of the animal kingdom. Typical animals are dissected and studied in detail. Effects of environment, morphology, classification, and distribution receive attention. Needham's Elementary and Orton's Comparative Zoology. For reference, Packard's Advanced Course. Five recitations per week, first semester. |