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PREPARATORY SCHOOL

composition. Advanced grammar and rhetoric are taught in connection with this work. The study of literary masterpieces is also pursued to, furnish material for the weekly written exercises, and to cultivate a taste for good literature. Considerable collateral reading in English and American authors is therefore required. The work, by terms, is as follows: First Year 1. Review of Grammar. Composition. Critical study of English and American Masterpieces. 2. Genung's Outlines of Rhetoric. Composition. Critical study of English and American Masterpieces. 3. Genung's Outlines of Rhetoric completed. Composition. Critical study of English and American Masterpieces. Second Year All three terms.—A general survey of American Literature. Theme writing. Critical study of English and American Masterpieces. A course of outside reading runs through the two years. FREE-HAND DRAWING This subject is best taken in the first term in order that pupils may have the benefit of its training in the studies which follow. Frederick's Notes on Free-Hand Drawing. FRENCH AND GERMAN Students in the Preparatory Department take the first year's work of the regular University German and French classes. The JoynesMeissner German Grammar and Van Daell '5 Beginning French, together with short stories and sketches of varying difficulty, form the basis of this work. GEOMETRY Special attention is paid to the development of the idea of mathematical demonstration; and, as many students who can reason logically cannot express their ideas clearly, due attention is paid to correctness of form. As soon as the student has attained the art of vigorous demonstration he is required to produce constructions and demonstrations for himself. Considerable attention is devoted to original work. The work, by terms, is as follows: 1. All of Plane or Solid* Geometry. 2. Both Plane* and Solid Geometry. 3. Solid Geometry. *If five or more apply.