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Show 14 ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. Commercial Arithmetic. As accurate and rapid calculations are required in business, special attention will be given to commercial arithmetic. PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. Pedagogy.Required of students in the Second Year Nor-mal Course, and History and Science of Education in the Third Year Normal Course. Parker's Talk on Teaching, Spencer's Education, and Painter's History of Education will be used. Three recitations throughout the year. Psychology.The subjects of consciousness, sensation and the nervous system, instinct and habit, emotion and will, are discussed. Hill's Psychology and James' Briefer Course. LANGUAGES. Latin I.-Five times per week throughout the year. Collar and Daniell's First Latin Book, and Viri Romae will be studied. Latin IIFive times per week throughout the year. Four books of Caesar and prose composition based on the text. Latin III.Five orations of Cicero and prose composition. Latin IV.Six books of Virgil's Aeneid will be read. German I.Joynes-Meissner's grammar Part I, and Joynes' German reader with exercises. Five recitations per week with seme drill in conversation. German II.-Part II of Joynes-Meissner's grammar; Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" complete. Five weekly recitations. German III. Semi-weekly recitations; rapid reading of Goethe's Faust, part 1, and Lessing's prose. German Conversation.Three recitations weekly. A special course is offered for the benefit of Latter-day Saint missionaries and students desiring to prepare for studies in or a visit to Europe. Thorough lessons based on object teaching, associating perception directly with the foreign expressions, and a practical introduction to conversation will be given. French I.Five recitations per week. Dreyspring's "Easy Lessons in French;" Chardenal's complete French course and Super's preparatory reader are the text books employed. French II.Open to those who have completed course I. Three recitations per week. Lamartine's Jeanne d'Ark and Jules Verne's Le Tour de Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours will be read. WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 15 ENGLISH AND LITERATURE. English I.Lockwood's Rhetoric completed, and a critical study male of some of the following classics: Webster's Bunker Hill Oration, Last of the Mohicans, Franklin's Autobiography, Goldsmith's Traveler and Deserted Village. Five recitations per week throughout the year. English II. -A critical study of some of the following: Burke's Conciliation, Roger de Coverley Papers, Tennyson's Princess, Flight of the Tartars, The Ancient Mariner, Scott's Ivanhoe, Macaulay's Milton and Addison, Dryden's Palamon and Arcite. Buehler's Practical Lessons in English will be used as supplementary work. Four recitations per week throughout the year. English III. The history of English Literature will be carefully examined, and several classic productions of leading English authors studied. Some standard literature used as a text. Five recitations per week throughout the year. English IV. -The study of classics, and introduction to literary criticism. Five recitations per week during the first half year. NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. Physics.Five times per week throughout the year. Recitations, experiments, and visits to power houses. Chemistry.Five times per week throughout the year. The first half year will be devoted to the study of General Chemistry. The second half year will be devoted to the chemical analysis of salts, solutions, minerals, mineral waters, etc. Blowpipe analysis will receive some attention. Class recitations and laboratory work. Williams Chemistry and some standard work on qualitative analysis will be used as tests. Zoology.Five times per week during first half year. Recitations, laboratory work, and the collection of specimens. Colton's Practical and Orton's Comparative Zoology. Botany.Five times per week during last half year. Recitations, collection, and analysis of flowers. Students will be required to prepare an herbarium of fifty species. Bergen's Botany and Coulters Manual. Physiology.Five times per week during first half year. Recitations, study of charts and skeletons, and simple experiments. Blaisdell's Physiology. Martin's human body for reference. Geology.Five times per week during first half year. Recitations and field work for which the vicinity of Ogden is unsurpassed. Tarr's Geology. LeConte and Dana as references. |