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HISTORY III-IV .- Ancient History, as reccommended by the Committee of Seven of the American Historical Association. Greek history is studied during the first semester, and Roman history during the second semester. The students are required to keep notebooks, to draw maps, and to do a large amount of supplementary reading and reference work. Morey's Ancient History.
HISTORY V-VI .- English History. Special attention is given to the development of English liberties, constitutional principles and institutions, and the expansion of England. Supplementary work is required, as in the other History classes. Cheyney's Short History of England.
MATHEMATICS
Both the practical and purely educational values of mathema- tics in its various branches are recognized. Principles are taught rather than rules. The mathematical training of each pupil is expected to accomplish two distinct results: first, a systematic and thorough development of the reasoning faculties; second, a thorough knowledge of elementary mathematics to satisfy the most exacting requirements for admission to college or technical schools.
ALGEBRA I-II .- First Year Algebra, taking up on an elementary scale the subjects of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, factoring, highest common factor, lowest common multiple, fractions, simple equa- tions, involution, and evolution. Milne's Elements of Algebra.
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LIBRARY
ALGEBRA III-IV .- Second Year Algebra, including all the subjects named above, with special drill in factoring and equations, together with involution, evolution, theory of exponents, radicals, and imaginary expres- sions. Milne's Standard Algebra.
ALGEBRA V-VI .- Third Year Algebra, including all the subjects in Algebra III-IV in more advanced form, with special drill in the follow- ing : quadratic equations ; equations in quadratic form; theory of quadratic equations ; ratio and proportion; arithmetical, geometrical, and harmon- ical progressions; the proof of the binomial theorem for any positive integral exponent. Milne's Advanced Algebra. Test Problems from College Entrance Examinations.
NOTE .- Courses start at the beginning of the year in Algebra III, Algebra IV, and Algebra V, respectively.
GEOMETRY I-II .- Plane Geometry. A thorough mastering of basic principles is insisted upon, together with an understanding of proofs of theorems. All problems and original exercises are solved, showing the application of the subject to everyday life. Wentworth's Plane Geome- try, Revised by Wentworth and Smith.
SOLID GEOMETRY .- The entire subject of Solid Geometry, with numer- ous exercises : the application of the principles to practical examples. Wentworth's Solid Geometry.
TRIGONOMETRY .- In this subject formulæ are proved, discussed, and memorized ; a thorough comprehension of the use and application of the logarithmic tables is insisted upon; and especial emphasis is placed upon accuracy and facility in the solution of triangles. Granville's Plane Trigonometry.
NOTE .- When there is sufficient demand a course is offered in college Freshman mathematics, including Advanced Algebra, Analytical Geometry, and Spherical Trigonometry.
LATIN
The course in Latin extends over four years. It aims to pre- pare thoroughly for the work of our best colleges. The grammar is made the subject of special study and continued drill through- out the course. Its principles are first studied inductively in the beginners' book with its illustrative exercises. The thorough analysis of the texts of Cæsar, Nepos, Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid affords constant inductive drill upon these same principles and gives the student an even deeper insight into their meaning. Spe- cial attention is given to Latin prose composition. The subject
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matter of the texts read, their historical setting, and the lives and works of the authors are given due attention. The following course in Latin is in accordance with the recommendations made by the Commission on College Entrance Requirements in Latin.
LATIN I-II .- Beginning Latin. Special attention is paid to the syntax of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. Easy connected passages based upon Cæsar and stories and fables of early Roman life are translated. Work is given in translating complex sentences and short paragraphs of connected prose from English into Latin. Smith's Latin Lessons.
LATIN III-IV .- Caesar and Nepos. Reading, prepared and at sight, in Nepos' Lives and Cæsar's Gallic War and Civil War. Special drill is given in syntax and analysis of all constructions. Emphasis is laid upon the principles of indirect discourse and the sequence of tense theory. The geography of Gaul and matters pertaining to the military tactics of Cæsar are studied. Work in prose composition based upon the text is given each week.
LATIN V-VI .- Cicero and Sallust. For careful study Cicero's orations for the Manilian Law and Poet Archias; for reading, prepared and at sight, Cicero's Orations, Letters, and De Senectute, and Sallust's Catiline and Jugurthine War. The course includes the analysis of the text and syntax, with special study of the use of the subjunctive mood and condi- tional sentences. Attention is also paid to the life of Cicero, historical setting of the orations, and the Roman republic as a state institution. At least one recitation period a week is devoted to prose composition.
LATIN VII-VIII .- Virgil and Ovid. For careful study, Virgil's Æneid, Books I, II, IV, and VI; for reading, prepared and at sight, Vir- gil's Bucolics, Georgics, and Æneid, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, Fasti, and Tristia. This course includes the study of mythology, of prosody, and of poetic construction and figures of speech. A good deal of practice is given in scansion. A study is made of the lives and works of Virgil and Ovid.
NOTE .- For students who desire to complete the regular four years' work in Latin in a shorter time the full course is offered in three years, as follows : First year, beginning Latin and Cæsar, Book I, Chapters I-29; second year, Cæsar completed and Cicero, four orations; third year, Virgil, six books, and Cicero completed (or the equivalent of this work in part from Nepos and Ovid, as above).
GREEK
This course is similar in its nature and aim to the course in Latin. It covers three years. The forms of words, especially of the verb, together with the syntax, are made the subject of
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careful study, and are continually reviewed as they are exempli- fied in the text of the Anabasis. The history of Greece during the period immediately preceding the Anabasis is briefly reviewed.
GREEK I-II .- Beginning Greek, including a thorough drill in declension, conjugation, syntax, vocabulary, and principal parts of verbs, with frequent reviews. White's First Greek Book.
GREEK III-IV .- Xenophon's Anabasis, Books I-IV, is read, with con- stant review of forms and thorough grammatical analysis of sentences. One period a week is devoted to prose composition. Harper and Wallace's Anabasis. Goodwin's Greek Grammar. Pearson's Greek Prose Compo- sition.
GREEK V-VI .- Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Careful attention is given to the Homeric grammar and the Ionic forms, and the student is con- stantly required to note the correspondence between the Ionic and Attic forms. Keep's Iliad. Goodwin's Greek Grammar. .
NOTE .- Students who are anxious and able to take this work more rapidly may complete all the Greek outlined above in two years, as follows : First year, beginning Greek and Anabasis, Book I; second year, Anabasis completed and Iliad, Books I-III.
GERMAN
The aim of the course in German is to give the student a reading and a speaking knowledge of the German language, with an insight into the life and literature of the German people. German is made, to a large extent, the language of the class- room. There is constant drill in pronunciation, rudiments of grammar, and syntax constructions. Short poems and parts of the classics read are memorized.
GERMAN I-II .- First Year German. The work during the first year comprises : careful drill upon the rudiments of grammar and upon pro- nunciation; the memorizing and frequent repetition of easy colloquial sentences; and the reading of about one hundred and twenty-five pages from such texts as Anderson's Märchen und Erzählungen, Bacon's Im Vaterland, Gerstäcker's Germelshausen, and others, with constant practice in translating into German variations upon sentences selected from the reading lesson and in the reproduction from memory of sentences prev- iously read. Vos' Essentials of German.
GERMAN III-IV .- Second Year German. This course includes: the reading of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pages of literature
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from such texts as Storm's Immensee, Baumbach's Der Schwiegersohn, Heyse's Anfang und Ende, Hillern's Höher als die Kirche, Benedix's Der Prozess; accompanying practice, as before, in the translation into German of easy variation upon the matter read and also in the off-hand reproduc- tion, sometimes orally and sometimes in writing, of the substance of short and easy selected passages; and continued drill in the rudiments of gram- mar. Prose book used is Chiles' German Composition.
GERMAN V-VI .- Third Year German. This year's work comprises, in addition to the elementary course, the reading of about four hundred pages of moderately difficult prose and poetry, with constant practice in giving reproductions from memory of selected portions of the matter read; also grammatical drill upon the less usual strong verbs, the use of cases, auxiliaries of all kinds, tenses and modes, and likewise upon word order and word formation. Such texts are read as Riehl's Burg Neideck, Foque's Undine, Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, Goethe's Hermann und Doro- thea, etc. Prose book, Wesselhoeft's German Composition.
NOTE .- Students who are able to take this work more rapidly may complete the three-year course in two years.
FRENCH
The course in French aims to give thorough preparation for the maximum requirements for college entrance. Special em- phasis is laid upon pronunciation, and, as far as possible, French is made the language of the class room. There is constant drill upon the idiomatic expressions. Careful and systematic drill in the conjugation of the verb is given, and the essential points of the grammar are continually reviewed throughout the year. The reading of French is begun as early as possible.
FRENCH I-II .- First Year French. A thorough study is made of the rudiments of French grammar. French sentences are translated into Eng- lish, and English into French. Daily drill in pronunciation is given, and dictation exercises are given at frequent intervals. The class reads about 300 pages from such texts as Talbot's Le Francais et Sa Patrie, Merimee's Colomba, Sand's La Mare au Diable, Halevy's L'Abbe Constantin. Aldrich and Foster's Elementary French.
FRENCH III-IV .- Second Year French. A more extended study is inade of grammar, including the inflection of the irregular verb and the essen- tials of French syntax. About 750 pages from such texts as the following are read : Hugo's Les Miserables, Feuillet's Le Jeune Homme Pauvre, Contes de Daudet, Labiche and Martin's Le Voyage de M. Perrichon, Dumas' Le Comte de Monte Cristo, Zola's La Debacle, Racine's Esther,
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Dumas' Fils Le Question d'Argent, Augier and Foussier's Un Beau Mar- iage, Augier and Sandeau's Le Gendre de M. Poirier. The contents of these texts are discussed in class in French. Writing from dictation is required, and frequent exercises in French prose composition are given. Prose book, Koren's French Composition.
SCIENCES
The aim throughout this department is to arouse in the student the spirit of systematic investigation. Consequently, individual experimenting, drawing and laboratory notebook records are strongly emphasized. The laboratory is employed primarily as a means toward the ascertainment of facts as well as methods in dexterous handling of the equipment. The spirit of scientific work is, however, not sacrificed entirely to method and technic.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY .- The course includes the study of : the earth as a planet ; atmospheric conditions, waves, currents and tides of the ocean ; the development of land features through the action of volcanoes and erosion ; and the general physiographical condition of the earth's surface, as to causes and effects. Maury and Simonds' Physical Geography.
PHYSIOLOGY .- This course includes the study of the entire textbook, accompanied by the presentation of the subject by means of skeletons, charts and models. This gives a most complete and adequate knowledge of the subject. Davison's Human Body and Health.
CHEMISTRY I-II .- This course is arranged in a manner best suited for a thorough elementary knowledge of the subject. Emphasis is laid upon fundamental laws of chemical action, through class-room and laboratory work. Two periods of two hours each are devoted to experiments each week, and the student is required to keep an accurate record of his work in a notebook examined weekly by the instructor. The recitation periods are devoted to the discussion of the text, study of equations, and the solutions of practical problems. McPherson and Henderson's First Prin- ciples of Chemistry, with their Laboratory Manual of Exercises in Chem- istry.
PHYSICS I-II .- This is an elementary course consisting of the study of the principal laws of matter and energy. The purpose of the course is to give a practical understanding of present day applications. Particular stress is laid upon the problems and exercises in the text. The student is required to keep an accurate record of his work done in the laboratory and represent the apparatus by means of drawings. Black and Davis' Practical Physics, with Laboratory Exercises compiled by the instructor.
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AGRICULTURE I-II .- This course includes the study of the principles underlying the science of agriculture, improvement of farm animals and plants, elementary study of soils, elementary study of fertilizers, farm crops, meadows and pastures, wood crop, orchards, weeds and their con- trol, systems of cropping, feeds and feeding, and an elementary study of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry. Practical talks are given, and laboratory work and field excursions are part of the course. Students are required to keep a carefully prepared notebook on their laboratory and field work. Warren's Elements of Agriculture.
SPRING TERM COURSES
In the Spring Term, beginning on Tuesday, April 10th, and continuing for ten weeks, are offered a large number of extra courses for the benefit of those who cannot attend the entire year. These courses are designed to prepare either for public school teaching or for college.
For teachers are offered all the subjects required by the new School Code to prepare applicants for provisional, professional, or permanent State certificates. These subjects include all the common English branches, in some of which there are two or three review classes, Methods of Teaching, Vocal Music, Draw- ing, English Literature, Plane Geometry, General History, Physi- cal Geography, Elementary Botany, Elementary Zoology and Elementary Physics.
Our teachers' courses have been very successful, and to-day there are several hundred teachers in this and adjoining counties who have received their training at Perkiomen Seminary. This work is invaluable, not only because it prepares teachers success- fully for their profession, but also because, being conducted in a preparatory school, it brings the student in touch with a spirit which is almost certain to develop a strong ambition for higher education.
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Junior Department
Beginning with September, 1916, provision has been made for a separate Junior Department. A limited number of younger boys, approximately from nine to fourteen years of age, will be segregated from the main student body and placed in a separate house, with an instructor and family. The boys will be under careful supervision, not only in their studies, but in their habits, dress, health, and morals. The aim is to give them the same kind of care and attention they would receive at home. During the regular study hours, a teacher will be in charge, to give whatever individual attention may be necessary.
The Course of Study will comprise classes in the elementary subjects, properly graded to suit the needs of the students.
The charges in this Department vary from three hundred ($300) to four hundred dollars ($400) for the whole school year, depending upon the size and location of room. These rates in- clude board, tuition, heat, light, room-rent, and care, with only books and washing extra. Half of this amount is payable in ad- vance at the beginning of each semester.
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Department of Music
CHARLES B. WEIRICH-Piano and Harmony. ELEANOR POTTER WEIRICH-Voice Culture. DAVID E. CROLL-Violin and Mandolin.
This department of the school has established an enviable rep- utation for thoroughness and efficiency. It is in the hands of able and experienced teachers, who are not only accomplished them- selves, but are able to stimulate enthusiasm and to impart their knowledge in all its details to those who come to them for in- struction.
It is the object of this department to awaken an interest in good music, to give the pupils such technical training that they may be able to interpret intelligently the works of the masters, to prepare pupils for higher work in art, and to train those who expect to teach, that they may have a correct knowledge of the systematic training of those entrusted to their care.
Public recitals, to which all friends of the school are invited, are given from time to time by such students as are qualified to appear. Students who desire to take part in any musical per- formance not connected with the school are expected to do so with the sanction and under the direction of the instructors.
The courses given here are followed in the main outline, but changes are made to suit the individual needs of the pupils. Each grade represents with the average pupil one year's work. Tal- ented pupils, who are diligent, make more rapid progress, and are able to complete their course in a shorter period.
Pupils completing any of these courses given and fulfilling all requirements will be awarded the diploma of the institution.
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ENTRANCE TO MAIN BUILDING
COURSE IN PIANO FORTE
GRADE I .- An instruction book of an approved character, Seiffert's or Gustave Damm's preferred; easy duets and pieces selected from Diabelli, Enckhausen, Krause, Ehmant and others.
GRADE II .- Major and Minor Scales in all keys, studies of Duvernoy, Kohler, Czerny and Heller. Pieces used are : selections from Schumann, Op. 68; Kullak, Op. 62 and 81 ; and Reinecke, Op. 77, first book. For sight reading, easy sonatinas and pieces and easy pieces for four hands.
GRADE III .- Scales and arpeggios in various forms; exercises for de- veloping the fingers and acquiring strength and endurance. Studies for this grade are Krause Trill Studies, Op. 2; Loeschhorn, Op. 66; Czerny, Op. 299; Heller's Studies in Rhythm and Expression, Op. 46; and Kohler, Op. 128; sonatas and pieces by Mozart, Haydn, Jensen, Reinecke, Mosz- kowski, and Ph. Scharwenka. For sight reading, sonatas and pieces from the classics arranged for four hands.
GRADE IV .- Technical exercises according to Mason's Touch and Tech- nic, or its equivalent. Cramer's Studies, Czerny's Art of Finger Dexterity, Op. 740; Heller, Op. 45. Octave Studies by Lowe, Bach's Two-Part In- ventions, Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, pieces by Hummel and Schubert, the more difficult sonatas by Mozart and easier sonatas by Beethoven; also pieces by modern composers. For sight reading, four- hand pieces by Mozart, Ph. Scharwenka and Bertini.
GRADE V .- Advanced Technical Exercises in Scales, Arpeggios and Broken Chords. Bach's Three-Part Inventions, Clementi's Gradus and Parnassum, Moscheles' Studies, Op. 70; Mendelssohn's Preludes and Studies, Preludes and Studies by Chopin, selected sonatas by Beethoven, and selections from Weber, Raff, Schumann, Chopin, Reinecke and Rubin- stein. For sight reading, overtures and symphonies arranged for four hands.
HAND CULTURE .- Special care is taken throughout the course that the hand is not only held in the proper position, but that each muscle of the hand is trained to do its work properly. To this end systematic exercises at the table are used, leading to technical work at the keyboard.
THE VIRGIL PRACTICE CLAVIER .- This is no longer a new method, but one highly endorsed and in constant use in almost all progressive schools of music, and by the teaching profession in general. As a means of ac- quiring technical endurance and velocity, and in training the memory, it has no equal, not even in the piano forte itself. This course is offered in connection with the piano-forte instruction without extra charge.
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COURSE IN VOICE CULTURE
The course in Voice Culture aims to give the pupil thorough training with reference to fullness, power, flexibility, volume, range and quality of voice. Careful attention is given to correct breath management, to the placing and building of the voice, and to the formation of pure tones.
GRADE I .- Easy technical exercises by Garcia, Panofka and Vaccai; Exercises in Technic ; with songs by Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, Gounod ; placing ; Concone's Fifty Lessons, Book I, for tone placing and rhythm; with easy songs to develop taste, musical feeling and expression.
GRADE II .- Marchesi's Vocalises Op. 15; Concone's Fifty Lessons, Book II; Lamperti's Studies for tone placing, resonating and shading; Labla- che's Exercises in Technic; with songs by Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, Gounod, Buck, Strelezki, Thomas and Nevin.
GRADE III .- Bordogni's exercises for flexibility and registration. Pa- nofka's Vocalises, Op. 81 ; Marchesi, Op. I, Part II; and songs by English, German and Italian composers.
GRADE IV .- Lamperti's Studies in Bravura and Colorature singing. Lutgen's Studies ; studies from the operas and oratorios ; and extension of repertoire.
COURSE IN VIOLIN
GRADE I .- Henry Schradieck Elementary Instruction; Keyser, Op. 20, Book I; Sevcik, Op. I, Part I; Exercise in one position. Duets by Gebaurer, Op. 10; Pleyel, Op. 8. Easy solos by Pabst, Saenger, Sitt, Severn, Dancla, etc. Selections from the Grand Operas by Saenger.
GRADE II .- DeBeriot School, Part I, for the study of the positions. Kayser, Op. 20, Book II. F. Mazas, Op. 36, Book I. Etudes Speciales. Duets by Mazas and Viotti. Hoffman Sonatinas, Haydn Sonatas Selected. Solos by Severn, Gabriel-Marie, Gounod, Schumann, Handel, Hauser and Dancla air Varies.
GRADE III .- Kreutzer Etudes, Schradieck Scale Studies, Section I of School of Violin Technics. Schradieck Sonatinas by Sitt. Sonatas by Haydn and Mozart. Selected duets by Spohr. Solos, Fantasias by Singe- lee. Air Varies by DeBeriot. Concerto No. I in A Minor-Accolay Con- cert No. 23 in G Major-Viotti, Concerto No. 7 in A Minor-Rode.
HARMONY
FIRST YEAR .- Scales. Intervals. Chords. Harmonizing of Melodies. Harmonic Minor Mode. Chord-Inversion and all Discord Harmonies.
SECOND YEAR .- Modulation. Altered and Mixed Chords. Inharmonic Tones. Harmonizing of Embellished Melodies. Analysis.
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THEORY OF MUSIC
THEORY OF MUSIC .- Acoustics. Vibrations. Overtures. The Orchestra and its instruments. Abbreviations and Signs. Music Groups. Embel- lishments. Musical Forms. The Sonata. The Fugus. Modern Dance Forms.
HISTORY OF MUSIC
HISTORY OF MUSIC .- The development of music, from the earliest ages to the present time, according to Fillmore's Lessons in Musical History.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION
PIANO .- The satisfactory completion of the course. Two years of Harmony and Theory of Music. History of Music. The students must also have made a number of successful perform- ances at public recitals, and at the end of the Senior year play a program in public from the work of the classic and modern schools.
VOICE CULTURE .- The satisfactory completion of the course. Grades I, II, and III of the Piano Forte course. Two years of Harmony. History of Music. Frequent appearance in recitals.
VIOLIN .- The satisfactory completion of the course. Two years of Harmony. Frequent appearance in recitals.
In addition, all graduates in Music must have a thorough knowledge of all the common English branches, and one year's work each in Algebra, Literature, Ancient History, Rhetoric, English Classics, German, and French.
MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS
The Mozart Club, an organization of the students of Piano and Voice, meets fortnightly in the music parlors. Attendance upon these meetings is compulsory, and students of all grades are required to play or sing in the presence of their fellow-stu- dents. These meetings are private and are held for the purpose of cultivating ease and confidence, of testing the improvement of the pupils, and as a preparation for appearance in public recital.
The Glee Club is composed of those young men of the school who have been selected because of their musical ability and the quality of their voices. The young men receive valuable training in part singing and sight reading, and they familiarize themselves
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