38 WEBER ACADEMY Horticulture.The students are made familiar with the principles of fruit-growing and vegetable gardening, including such topics as the location of orchards, tillage, fertilization, spraying, marketing, etc. Two double laboratory periods each week is devoted to laboratory work in evaporation, transpiration, pruning, budding, grafting, etc. The text is American Horticultural Manual, by Budd and Hansen. Five hours per week during the second semester. Animal Husbandry.The course is designed to give the student a knowledge of the origin, history and characteristics of all important breeds of domestic animals. The class work is supplemented by visits to the homes of some standard types, and by lectures from prominent livestock men. The text used is Types and Breeds of Farm Animals, by Plumb. Five hours per week, first semester. Physiology.The real object of this course is to give careful consideration to the physiology, anatomy and hygiene of the human body. This will include the study of the human mechanism, the inter-dependence of organs and of cells, alimentation and digestion, the circulation of the blood, nutrition, personal hygiene, domestic science and sanitation, public science and sanitation, etc. Five hours per week second semester. Zoology.The aim of this course is to introduce the students to some of the groups of animals by a careful study of typical representatives of these groups, The structure, development, reproduction and distribution of the more important animals, together with consideration of local fauna, will be studied. Specimens will be collected and preserved. Carefully prepared notes and sketches will characterize the laboratory work. Five hours, first semester. Text: Linville and Kelly. Required in the second year normal and scientific courses. WEBER ACADEMY 39 Botany.This course is designed to cover in a general way the entire plant kingdom. The first five weeks are devoted to the lower forms of plant life, algae and fungi; five weeks to the study of life principles, absorption, transpiration, nutrition and general plant physiology, and the last few weeks to the classification of the wild flowers. The text used is Coulter's A Text Book of Botany. Three recitations and two double laboratory periods per week, second semester. LANGUAGES. William M. McKay. John G. Lind. German a.The object of this course is to acquire a working vocabulary and to gain some idea of the grammatical construction of the language. German will be largely the language of the class room. Elements of German, by Becker, is the text used. Five hours per week throughout the year. German b.In this course more attention will be given to grammar, and more difficult German prose will be read. The texts are: German Grammar, by Frazer and Vander Smissen, and Bernhard's Prose Composition, followed by easy classics and sight reading from the Book of Mormon. Five hours per week throughout the year. German c.A systematic review of the grammar based upon the Frazer and Vander Smissen's Grammar is followed by a more extensive study of the drama and lyrics. Five hours per week throughout the year.