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Show NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 27 live arithmetical subjects. Required of all first year students, excepting those who may pass satisfactory examination. Three hours per week, first semester. ALGEBRA I.Required of fiirst year students in the Normal, Classical, Scientific and Business course. Fundamental principles, use of parenthesis, factoring, highest common factor, least common multiple and fractions. Five hours per week, first and second semesters. Text book Well's Essentials. ALGEBRA II.Required of students in the Normal, Classical and Scientific courses. Inequalities, involution and evolution, radicals, theory of exponents, quadratics, equations, progression, proportion, binomial theorem aud logarithems. Five hours per week first and second semesters. Text book Well's Essentials. GEOMETRY I. PLANE.Required of second year students in the Normal Classical and Scientific courses. This course includes retilinear figures, areas and plygons, regular polygons, maxima and minima. Problems of construction and demonstration throughout. Three hours per week throughout the year. Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry, Revised. GEOMETRY II. SOLID.Required of third year students in the Classical and Scientific courses. Lines and planes in space, polyhedrons, cylinders, cones, sphere and the conic sections. Four hours per week during the first half year. Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry, Revised. TRIGONOMETRY.Open as an elective. The trigonometrical functions, general formula of plane and spherical trigonometry, solution of plane spherical triangles, practice in the use of logarithmic tables. Five hours per week during the first half year. Well's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. History and Political Science The courses in history and political science emending through several years, give the student a good idea of general history and government. In each course the text is followed to give the student the thread of historical events, and a supplementary work is used to give a deeper insight into special phases of development. Considerable library work is required which is made the basis of class discussion, |