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2 7° PREPARATORY SCHOOL By terms, the work is divided as follows: 1. Fundamental processes, factoring, divisors, and multiples, fractions, and simple equations with one or more unknown quantities. 2. Involution and evolution, theory of exponents, radicals, and quadratic equations. 3. Theory of quadratic equations, inequalities, theory of limits, ratio and proportion, variation and the progressions. BOTANY This is a study of plants rather than of books about plants, although books are not disregarded. It is an introduction to the science, and is intended to give an acquaintance with the chief features of the subject. The analysis of simple flowers and the preparation of a small herbarium of correctly named and properly mounted plants is required. Bcrgen's Elements of Botany. ENGLISH The subject is presented in such a way as to increase the student's vocabulary and to develop elegance and exactness of expression in his 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. 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-Hani Drawing. FRENCH AND GERMAN Students in the Preparatory School take the work of the regular University German and French classes. 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 rigorous demonstration he is required to produce constructions and demonstrations for himself. Considerable attention is devoted to original work. Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry.
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