Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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INSTRUCTION 287 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 semester in order that pupils may have the benefit of its training in the studies which follow. Frederick's Notes on Free-Hand Drawing. FRENCH The work in this subject will be the same as that indicated under entrance requirements, p. 50. GERMAN COURSE A.—Beginning work, Joynes-Meissner's Grammar and Hewett's German Reader. COURSE B.—Advanced course. Joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Bernhardt's Prose Composition and translation of narrative prose. Required: German A or one year of high school 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 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 (revised). GREEK The study of this subject should, when possible, be preceded by at least one year of Latin. For particulars see entrance requirements, p. 51. HISTORY Instruction in this subject is confined to English and American History. A detailed study of the rise and progress of the Englishspeaking people in England and America is made, and considerable attention is given to the origin and development of representative government. Oman's History of England. Fiske's History of the United States, and Civil Government. LATIN The ground covered consists of the grammar and selections from
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