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Show 28 FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the winds and waters, and their effects upon climate, earthquakes and their causes, volcanoes, and the distribution of plants and animals will be studied. Tarr's Physical Geography. Five hours per week, first half year. Physiology.The object in this study will be to so present the subject that it may be of practical use to students in life. And in order to make it so, special attention will be given to the various organs, their use and abuse, and hygienic laws for the preservation of health. Hutchinson's Physiology and Martin's Human Body will be used as texts. Five hours per week, second half year. MATHEMATICS. Advanced Arithmetic.Required of all first year students in the High School and Normal courses. The fundamental principles of arithmetic are thoroughly considered. Wentworth's High School Arithmetic. Five hours per week, first half year. Algebra 1.Required of first year students: Elementary principles, factors, fractions; simple, simultaneous, and intermediate equations, and inequalities. Wentworth's New School Algebra to page 211. Five hours per week, second half year. Algebra II.Required of second year students: Involution and evolution, theory of exponents, radical and imaginary expressions, quadratic equations, progressive, binomial theoreum, logarithms, etc. Went-worth's New School Algebra, completed. Five hours per week, first half year. Plane Geometry.Required of second year students: Rectilinear figures, the circle, proportion simi- WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 29 lar figures, areas of polygons, regular polygons and circles. Wentworth's Plane Geometry. Five hours per week, second half year. Solid Geometry.Open as an elective. Lines and planes in space; polyhedrons, cylinders and cones, the sphere; conic sections. Wentworth's Solid Geometry. Three hours per week, first half year. Trigonometry.Open as an elective. The general principles of plane and spherical trigonometry. Wells' Trigonometry, Three hours per week, second half year. HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. United States History.Required of third year students: Some knowledge of history is required as a preparation for this course. The period of discovery and exploration; colonial period, revolutionary war, the political, constitutional and industrial development of the United States. Fiske's U. S. History. Three hours per week, throughout the year. General History.Required of Fourth year students. In this course the history of the world's great nations from earliest times down to the present, will be considered. Myers' General History. Three hours per week, throughout the year. English History.The ancient History of England, the conquest by the Germanic tribes, the consolidation of the nation into one state, and the growth of civil and religious liberty will be considered. Montgomery's English History. Two hours per week throughout the year. Civil Government.Required of third year students: Origin and development of American institutions. The Constitution of the United States and of |