30 WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE not yet prepared to do high school work, an opportunity to prepare themselves for higher studies in the Academy. GrammarAbundant practice in composition work. Five recitations per week throughout the year. ArithmeticStandard Arithmetic. Milne Completed. Wentworth's High School Arithmetic for supplementary work. Five recitations per week throughout the year. GeographyTarr and McMurry's Complete Geography, with special reference to Utah and Weber County. Five half-hour recitations per week throughout the year. PenmanshipVertical and slanting penmanship. Five quarter-hour recitations per week throughout the year. SpellingThis study is required of all preparatory students. Five quarter-hour recitations per week throughout the year. ReadingSelections from standard authors. Five recitations throughout the year. HistoryThomas. Five half-hour recitations per week throughout the year. English Department ENGLISH a (Classics and Composition).Several classics, including Scott's Ivanhoe and Lady of the Lake; Franklin's Autobiography; Tennyson's Garette and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur; Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress, Part1; and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar will be discussed and read from an interpretative standpoint. The aim of the course is to direct such an appreciation of these works that the student will be able to express a proper interpretation of them in his reading. Short themes once a week, with occasional longer compositions on subjects relating to the readings shall be required. Five hours per week during the first or second semester. WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE 31 ENGLISH b (Grammar and Composition). A review of English grammar as given in Buehler's Modern English Grammar, and short themes once a week with occasional longer themes on assigned or original subjects comprise the work of this course. Buehler's Exercises in English will be used supplementary. Five hour per week during the first or second semester. ENGLISH C. This course consists of a thorough study of the elementary principles of rhetoric, with special attention to paragraph structure and connection, sentence structure and connection, and words. The application of these principles as seen in selection from Addison, Goldsmith, George Eliot, Shakespeare, etc., will be an important part of the work. Regular short themes with occasional longer compositions will be repuired during the first year. Composition and Rhetoric by Brooks and Hubbard is the text used. Four hours per week during the first semester. ENGLISH d. A continuation of English c. Four hours per week during second semester. ENGLISH e. Special attention shall be paid to the more difficult matters connected with paragraph and sentence making, and the study of the right meaning of words easily misunderstood shall continue Macaulay. Thackary, Coleridge, De Quincy, etc., are the authors from whose works selection shall be made for study in class. English Literature by Long. Three hours per week during the first semester. ENGLISH F. Continuation of English e. Three hours per week during second semester. ENGLISH g. Composition work in this course will give practice in the various kinds of writingexposition, narration, description, and argumentation. Students will be encouraged to express their opinions clearly and effectively, as well as correctly. Selections from Burke, Carlyle, Ruskin, Shakespeare, Milton and Browning will be discussed in class. Manual of Composition and Rhetoric by Gardiner, Kitteridge and Arnold is the text used. Three hours per week during the first semester.