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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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286 PREPARATORY SCHOOL COURSE OF INSTRUCTION [Studies may be taken in semesters as here indicated, but must be taken in the required sequence.] First Semester.—* Algebra; English Composition and Literature, through two years; English Grammar reviewed, if necessary; Rhetoric; Drawing; French (second year) ; German (second year) ; Latin •—first year, Beginner's book; second year, Caesar and Sallust; third year, Cicero; Greek—first year, Grammar, Reader, and Composition; second year, Xenophon, Composition, and Grammar; Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry; English and American History; Physics, after the recess; Physiology, until the recess ; Zoology. Second Semester.—Algebra; Botany; English Composition and Literature, through two years; Rhetoric; Drawing; French (first and second years) ; German (first and second years) ; Latin—first year, Reader and Cxsar; second year, Cicero; third year, Vergil; Greek— first year, Grammar, Composition, and Anabasis; second year, Grammar, Composition, and Herodotus; Plane Geometry; Solid Geometry; English and American History; Physics. DESCRIPTION OF COURSES ALGEBRA Emphasis is laid upon the use of purely literal expressions, radicals, fractional and negative exponents, and upon the fundamental nature of the equation. 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. Bergen's Elements of Botany. ENGLISH The subject is presented in such a way as to increase the student's vocabulary and to develop ease 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 frequent written exercises, * If five or more apply, a class will review the entire subject in the first semester.
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