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20 SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PSYCHOLOGY AND LOGIC, Psychology.The subjects of consciousness, sensation and nervous system, instinct and habit, emotion and will, are discussed. Students of history and literature, as well as those pre-paring to teach, will find this study profitable. Halleck's Psychology and James' Briefer Course. Three hours per week through-out the year. 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. Four hours per week throughout the year. Collar and Daniell's First Year Latin. Latin II. Easy selections from Latin authors and and equivalent of four books of Caesar's Gallic War are read. Exercises in composition based upon the text are given. Four hours per week throughout the year. Greenough's Second Year Latin and Daniell's Latin Composition. Latin III. During the first half year, Cicero's four orations against Cateline, and the oration pro poeta Archia are read. During the last half year, three books of Virgil's AEneid are translated. Exercises in composition are given. Four hours per week are given. Four hours per week throughout the year. Dooge's Cicero and Comstock's Virgil. GERMAN. German I. The object of this course is to give some idea of the grammatical construction of the language and also to acquire a working vocabulary. For this purpose Keller's First Book in German or Spauhoofd's Lehrbuch der Deutschen Sprache will be studied. Followed by easy texts, Glueck Auf, and Guerber's Maerchen. Four hours per week throughout the year. German II. Some time will be spent in composition work based on Bernhardt's German Composition. More difficult German prose will be read and two German dramas will be studied. Four hours per week throughout the year. WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 21 German III. A systematic view of the grammar based on Joynes Meissner; followed by a more extensive study of the drama and lyrics. Four hours per week throughout the year. ENGLISH AND LITERATURE. Grammar and Classics. 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 to become habitual in the use of correct forms of speech. The critical study of one or two selections from a standard English or American author will be included in this course, Buehler's Practical Exercises in English, Milne's Grammar. Five hours per week throughout the year. Rhetoric. This course consists of a thorough study of the elementary principles of rhetoric as given in Genung's Outlines of Rhetoric. Emerson and Lockwood's Rhetoric and Composition, and Kimball's The Sentence, supplementary. The application of the principles of Rhetoric is seen in the study of Burke's "Conciliation with the American Colonies," Gold-smith's "Deserted Villiage," Dickens' "Christmas Carol," etc. Five hours per week throughout the year. Rhetoric (Advanced).This course gives advanced instruction in the principles of rhetoric, and gives the class an opportunity to apply these 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 of composition. Wendell's English Composition. Two hours per week throughout the year. 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. Three hours per week throughout the year. NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. PhysicsThe physical properties of matter, physical units of measurements, mechanics, and the phenomena of sound, light, heat, magnetism, and electricity, are considered. The text is sup- |
