34 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT LATIN I.The student masters a vocabulary sufficient to enable him to commence the reading of Caesar. Daily drill is given on the regular verb and noun forms. Constant practice in translating from Latin into English and from English into Latin. Four hours per week throughout the year. Collar and Daniell's First Year Latin. LATIN II.Translation of easy selections from Latin Authors and three books of Caesar's Gallic War. Attention will be given to syntax, the subjunctive mode, and indirect discourse. Writing Latin based on the text read. Four hours per week throughout the year. Miller and Beeson's Second Year Latin and Daniell's new Latin composition. LATIN III.Cicero's four orations against Catiline and the orations pro poeta Archia and M. Marcello are translated. A study of the subjunctive mode and conditional sentences. Composition work based on the text. Four hours per week throughout the year. Dooge's Cicero and Daniell's New Latin Composition. LATIN IV.Six books of Virgil's AEneid are translated. Special attention will be given to prosody and Greek and Ro-man Mythology. Three hours per week throughout the year. PHYSICAL SCIENCE. PHYSICS.A study of elementary mechanics and the phenomena of sound, light, heat, magnetism, and electricity. Numerous lecture table experiments are prepared to illustrate the principles studied. Each student is required to work two hours per week in the laboratory and to keep a note book in which the observations and results must be tabulated. Three hours recitation and two hours laboratory work per week throughout the year. Hoadley's Brief Course in Physics and some standard laboratory manual GENERAL CHEMISTRY.The fundamental theories of general chemistry and the non-metallic and more common metallic elements are studied. The balancing of equations, the solving of problems and the practical applications of chemistry will re- WEBER STAKE ACADEMY 35 ceive considerable attention. Three hours recitation and two hours laboratory work per week throughout the year. Hessler and Smith's Essentials of Chemistry, and Newell's Descriptive Chemistry. Dennis and Clarke's Laboratory Manual. BIOLOGY. BOTANY.Structure, growth, assimilation, reproduction, and adaptations to environment of the flowering plants. Moulds, mosses, ferns, and other common flowerless plants will receive some attention. Laboratory work and collateral reading. Frequent field trips are taken during the latter part of the course. Five hours per week during the last half year. Bergen's Foundations of Botany. Coulter's Plants and Vines Text-book for reference. ZOOLOGY.Structure, development, reproduction, and distribution of the more common animals, with some attention to local fauna. Typical examples of the different sub-kingdoms are dissected and studied in detail. Collection and preservation of specimens. Five hours per week first half year. Colton's Descriptive and Practical Zoology. PHYSIOLOGY.The nervous system, the organs of the special senses, digestion, assimilation, circulation, and the effects of stimulants receive special attention. Laboratory work is required throughout the course. Microscopical slides, skeletons and charts are used to illustrate the subject. Two hours per week throughout the year. Colton's Descriptive and Experimental Physiology with collateral reading. PHYSIOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY. PHYSIOGRAPHY.-The effects of atmosphere, rivers, oceans, and glaciers on the development of physiographic forms. Rejuvenescence of rivers, cycles of erosion, transportation and deposition of the waste of the land will be studied. Frequent field excursions will be made during the fall and spring terms. Three hours per week throughout the year. Davis' Physical Geography.