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Show 40 WEBER ACADEMY Physics.A study of elementary mechanics and I the phenomena of sound, light, heat, magnetism and electricity. Lecture table experiments are performed to illustrate the principles studied. Special attention is given to laboratory work. Each student is required to keep a laboratory note book in which his observations and results are recorded. Visits will be made to power houses. Three hours' recitation and four hours' laboratory work per week throughout the year. Milllikan and Gale's First Course in Physics and Millikan'sl Laboratory Manual. Chemistry.The work of the course covers the general principles underlying inorganic chemistry and a consideration of the characteristics of the groups oil elements. First Principles of Chemistry, by Brownlee, and Newell's Experiments are the texts used. Three recitations per week and two double laboratory periods throughout the year. Biology and Agriculture. Elementary Agriculture.This work assists in solving the actual problems upon the farm by considering the origin and classification of soils, their relation to moisture, heat, etc., and to the plants and their food, fertilization and fertilizers, insects and fungus diseases, etc. The text is Agriculture on the Pacific Slope, by Hilgard and Osterhout. Three recitations and two double laboratory periods per week during the first semester. WEBER ACADEMY 41 Horticulture.The students are made familiar with the principles of fruit-growing and vegetable gardening, including such topics as the location of orchards, tillage, fertilization, spraying, marketing, etc. Two double laboratory periods each week is devoted to laboratory work in evaporation, transpiration, pruning, budding, grafting, etc. The text is Principles of Plant Culture, Goff. Five hours per week during the second semester. Animal Husbandry.The course is designed to give the student a knowledge of the origin, history and characteristics of all important breeds of domestic animals. The class work is supplemented by visits to the homes of some standard types, and by lectures from prominent livestock men. The text used is Types and Breeds of Farm Animals, by Plumb. Five hours per week, first semester. Physiology.The real object of this course is to give careful consideration to 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. Five hours per week, second semester. 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 structure, development, reproduction and distribution of the more important animals, together with con- |