Caption: Course Catalog - 1893-1894
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PREPARATORY SCHOOL. l6g GENERAL PLAN OF INSTRUCTION. ENGLISH. This subject will be presented so as to increase the pupil's vocabulary, and train him to rapid and clear apprehension of the printed page and to elegance and exactness of expression. Grammar and Rhetoric will be taught in connection with the other work. The reading and study of literary masterpieces will form part of the work, and, while furnishing material for the written exercises, will cultivate a taste for helpful books. Considerable collateral reading will be required. This will be so selected as also to aid the historical studies by presenting pictures of important epochs in the world's development. HISTORY. The aim in this will be to present a brief outline of the development of the human race. The topical method will be used, as most conducive to that thoughtful consideration of the facts presented by the past which leads to their application by the citizen of the present. The work will be closely associated with that in English, and the required reading will be made mutually helpful to both subjects. Myer's General History and collateral reading. ALGEBRA. Rapidity and accuracy'in all operations will be rigidly required. Especial emphasis will be laid upon the use of purely literal expressions, radicals, fractional and negative exponents, and upon the fundamental nature of the equation. The text book used is Wells's Higher Algebra. GEOMETRY. Plane and solid Geometry will be taken during the first and second terms. The third term will be devoted to inventive and original work, which will constitute a review of the whole subject. Especial attention will be paid to the development of the idea of a mathematical demonstration; and, as many students who can reason logically, can not express their ideas adequately, due attention will be paid to correctness of form. As soon as the student has attained the art of rigorous demonstration, he will be required to devise constructions and demonstrations for himself. The text book used is Wells's Plain and Solid Geometry.
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