36 SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT LATIN II.Easy selections from Latin authors 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 IIIDuring 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 throughout the year. Dooge's Cicero and Comstock's Virgil. GERMAN. GERMAN IThe object of this course is to acquire a working vocabulary and gain some idea of the grammatical construction of the language. Keller's first book in German, followed by reading Glueck Auf and one short story. Four hours per week throughout the year. GERMAN IIMore attention will be given to grammar and more difficult German prose will be read. Thomas's Practical Grammar and two dramas. Four hours per week throughout the year. GERMAN IIIA systematic review 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 CLASSICSIn 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 sentence structure and the use of correct forms of speech. The critical study of one or two selections WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 37 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. RHETORICThis 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, Goldsmith's Deserted Village, 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 those 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. LITERATUREThis 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. PHYSICS--The physical properties of matter, physical units of measurements, mechanics, and the phenomena of sound, light, heat, magnetism, and electricity, are studied. The text is supplemented with lectures, experiments, and