education should fit us into life, will-ing
workers in its sometimes hard
processes, patient in our search for
its truths, avoiding vanity and the
other hypocricies which, if they
fasten themselves upon us, leave
us hardly worth burying. Down...
made butter for many years, were Sarah Nowers, Mary Low, Mrs. W. P. Smith, Amelia Smith, Mrs. Ann Levi, Sophia Dean, and others. Mrs. William Dean churned and supplied the officers at Fort Cameron with butter while they were stationed there.
In...
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Subjects of Instruction.
ARITHMETIC.-The fundamental processes of arithmetic are thoroughly considered, including common and decimal fractions, the metric system of weights and measures, simple and compound...
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Second Year. First half Second half.
Algebra b 2 2
Botany, Elementary 3
English b 3 3
Geometry, Plane 2 2
Manual Training 2 2
Physical Geography 2 2
Physiology a 2 2...
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Third year. First half Second half.
Mineralogy, Elementary 3
Geology, Elementary 2 2
Chemistry 5
E
nglish c 2 2
Physics, Elementary 4 4
General History 3 3 ...
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Fourth year. First half. Second half.
Educational Psychology 4
English a 2 2
Pedagogy 2 2 2
Training 4 4
Drawing b 1 1
History of Education 2
Manual Training 1 1
Reading b 2 2
School Accounts 2 ...
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sists largely of the working of problems involving the laws of Physics. Class room experiments are performed by the teacher whenever necessary to make a principle more comprehensible. The fifty experiments outlined in the...
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societies studied to make the student familiar with the plant families that he will meet in the rural districts. Along with the scientific importance of the different forms studied, special attention is paid to their...
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Text. McPherson and Henderson's Elementary Chemistry. References: Newth's Inorganic Chemistry, Thorp's Outlines of Industrial Chemistry, Remsen's General Chemistry, etc.
NATURAL SCIENCE.
MR....
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Much field work is-done during the fall months and the student led to observe and investigate for himself.
Special attention is paid in class to discussion of the laws of Biology; and original papers required-the...
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NATURAL SCIENCE.
*Mr. Macfarlane.
Mr. Ashby.
Mr. Robb.
Botany. This is a general course including a study of the whole plant kingdom. With the advantage of a well equipped laboratory, preserved material and slides, each student is...
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general idea of the whole animal kingdom, and is enabled to follow the gradual transsition in the structure from the simple celled, to the complex forms.
Much field work is done during the fall months and the student led to observe and...
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special attention being paid to digestion and absorption. The latter part of the course consists of elementary work in bacteriology to give the student an idea of the nature and growth of micro-organism.
Three hours class work and two...
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are the more difficult ones prescribed for entrance to the Freshman class. It includes also the writing of original themes, an elementary study of English etymology and a thorough review of portions of the English...
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SUBJECTS OF INSTRUCTION.
MATHEMATICS.
MR. LEWIS.
Normal Arithmetic.-This is an advanced course covering the fundamental principles of arithmetic. Special attention is given to the ratio idea of number and the...
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a study of common minerals, their physical and chemical characteristics and methods of determination, with special attention given to the common rock-forming minerals and their associations in the more common rocks....
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the student with the histology of the body. Some pathological conditions are investigated and sources of disease located.
2 hours per week throughout the year.
Geology.-This work will be considered under three...
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trict schools. Through laboratory work, dissecting, microscopic examinations, and drawing, the student is made familiar with the lower forms of animal life, and obtains an insight into their relation to the higher forms...
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stitching, hemming, overcasting, felling, gathering, buttonholes, loops and eyelets; also darning, embroidery matching, glove mending, and making seams, fastening, plackets, gussets, etc.
This course also includes...
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NATURAL SCIENCE
MR. DECKER.
Zoology. This is a thoroughly practical course designed to prepare the student for efficient work as a teacher of science in the district schools. Through laboratory work,...