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Show 34 WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE daily. Short reading lessons embodying the principles learned are translated from Latin to English and from English to Latin. The translations from Latin to English are short fables, parts of Viri Romea, and some of the simpler chapters of Caesar. Elementary Course, Potter. Four hours per week throughout the year. LATIN b. Translations of parts of Viri Romea and three books of Caesar form the second year's work in Latin. Special attention is given to syntax, and written composition based on the text read as a form of practice. "Caesar's Gallac War," Towle and Jenks, is the text used. Four hours per week throughout the year. LATIN C. Cicero's four orations against Cataline and the orations pro poeta Archia and M. Marcello are translated. A study of the subjunctive mood and conditional sentences. Composition work based on the text. Four hours per week throughout the year. D'Ooge's Cicero and Daniell's New Latin Composition. LATIN d. Six books of Virgil's AEneid are translated. Special attention will be given to prosody and Greek and Roman Mythology. Three hours per week throughout the year. GERMAN a. The object of this course is to acquire a working vocabulary and gain some idea of the grammatical construction of the language. German will be largely the language of the class room. German Grammer, Frazer and Vander Smissen. Four hours per week throughout the year. GERMAN b. More attention will be given to grammar and more difficult German prose will be read. Ger-man Grammer, Frazer and Vander Smissen, and Bernhard's Prose Composition, followed by easy classic and sight reading from the Book of Mormon. Four hours per week throughout the year. GERMAN C. A systematic review of the grammar based upon Joynes-Meissner, or Thomas's Practical Grammar, followed by a more extensive study of the drama and the lyrics. Four hours per week throughout the year. WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE 35 Physical Science PHYSICS a. A study of elementary mechanics and the phenomena of sound, light, heat, magnetism, and electricity. Numerous lecture table experiments are performed 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. Text: Millikan and Gale's First Course in Physics and Millikan's Laboratory Manual. Physics b is a continuation of Physics a. CHEMISTRY a. 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 receive considerable attention. Three hours' recitation and two hours' laboratory work per hours' recitation and four hours' laboratory work per week throughout the year. Text: First Principles of Chemistry, Brownlee. Biology PHYSIOLOGY a. The real object of this course is to give careful consideration of the physiology, anatomy and hygiene of the human body. This will include the study of the human mechanism, the inter-dependence of organs and of cells, alimentation and digestion, the circulation of the blood, nutrition, personal hygiene, domestic science and sanitation, public science and sanitation, etc. For second year students. Required of second year normal and scientific students. Five hours per week second semester. Text: Hough and Sedgwick. ZOOLOGY. The aim of this course is to introduce the students to some of the groups of animals by a careful study of typical representatives of these groups. The |