Minnehaha Academy - Antler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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CATALOG, MINNEHAHA ACADEMY tion; drills in parsing, forms, sight reading, etc. D,Ooge's Prose Composition used. Third Your Cicero: 'Manilian Law. Four ora- tions against Catiline. Oration for Marcellus or Archias. Gram- mar and prose composition. DtOoge's Prose Composition used. Fourth Your Virgil's ZEneid. Bks. I-VI. Ele- ments of prosody. Metrical read- ing, mythology, and sight read- ing. Grammar and prose com- position. Memorizing of short passages. SWEDISH First Year Vickner's Grammar, tCompletedL Selections and exercises in con- versation. Memorizing of poems and brief passages. Texts- Geijerstam, Mina pojkar; Lager- lbf, Valda berattelser; Elmquist, Swedish Reader. Supplementary readings. Second Your Vickner, Composition and Word Study, completed. Special em- phasis laid on idiomatic expres- sions. A brief survey of Northern Mythology. Texts-Lagerlijf, Nils Holgersson, and En Herregards- sigen; Tegner, Fritiofs Saga. Memorizing of parts of Fritiofs Saga. Short compositions. Sup- plementary reading: Starback, Livknektens Berittelser. Third Your Grimberg, Sveriges Historia, I-V. Runeberg, Finrik Stils Signer. Themes. Supplementary reading. Fourth Yvur A more thorough study of the history of Swedish literature. Readings. Selections from Ryd- berg, Strindberg, Heidenstam and other authors. Themes. Supple- mentary readingevarious selec- tions. GERMAN First Yvur The following textbooks or their equivalent are used: Baconts New German Grammar; Roess- ler's German Reader. Serum! Your Intermediate German: Baconts German Composition, Storm's Immensee, Hellern's ther als die Kirche, Zschokke,s Der Zer- brochene Krug, or the equivalent of these. MATHEMATICS A rigid treatment is given of the standard theorems and principles, and practical application. An attempt will be made to co- ordinate and unify the concepts of Algebra and Geometry by let- ting the two branches supplement each other and be developed in their true relation. Stress will be laid on drill for efficiency in handling equations throughout the courses. Ju'lmm'ntury AIgcln'ueParticular at- tention is given to establish con- nections between the Arithmetic already studied and the study of Algebra. The course covers the usual ground through simple quadratic equations. Text: Haw- kes-Lu'by-Touton's First Course in Algebra. Plano GoomctryeA study of the usual theorems and constructions. Stress is laid on original exer- cises and problems. Text: Went- worth-Smithts Plane Geometry. Highw- AlgobraeThis course be- gins with a review of first year Algebra as a basis for the ad- vanced work and extends through the theory of quadratic equations, progressions, theory of limits, imaginaries, and simple 10g- arithms. Text: Hawkes-Luby- Touton's Second Course in Al- gebra. Solid. Gcomctry-A study of the Ge- ometry of solids, including the customary theorems and con- structions. Text: Wentworth- Smithst Solid Geometry.

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CATALOG, MINNE HAHA ACADEMY Explanation BIBLE In all the classes the Bible itself is the textbook. The passages to be studied and a few suggestive questions are posted on the bul- letin board and thus secured by the members of the class. These classes meet twice a week. One .fourth of a credit is given for each year's work. Bible study is required of each student as long as he is in school but the com- pletion of the four year course is not required. First Year The first year is devoted to a study of the life of Christ. The four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are studied simultaneously. ' Second Year In the second year the student takes up Old Testament History. The entire book is covered in this course. Third Year The third year is given to the rise and development of the early Christian church, as recorded in the New Testament. The Acts and the subsequent books of the New Testament are studied. Fourth Your Seniors Who have completed Bible I, II, and III are permitted to take a subject in the Bible institute in their fourth year and receive high school credit for it. ENGLISH First Year Review of grammar. Written composition, with emphasis on correct spelling, punctuation and good English usage. Sentence and paragraph structure. The purpose of this course is to de- velop in the students a sense of neatness and exactness in writ- 30 0f Courses ing, and a natural feeling for fitness and correctness in sen- tence and theme building. Second Year Poetry and verse forms. Letter writing. Exposition: essays and speeches from the classics chosen for study. Written and oral composition. High school jour- nalism. Third Year Argumentation. Study of classics argumentative in 1form. Study of the drama. Brief survey of the history of American litera- ture. Fourth Year A survey of English literature and a study of prose and poetry of the foremost authors. Com- position. Notc-Throughout the four years course, the classics read are chosen in accordance With the recommendations of the National Conference of College Entrance Requirements in English. Outside reading and written re- ports are required at regular intervals; during the entire course. Textbooks: Wardis Sentence and Theme; Wardis Theme Building; Greever-Jones, Handbook of Writing; Lyons, Elements of De- bating; Long, American Litera- ture; Longs History of English 9 Literature; Newcomer-Andrews' Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose. LATIN First Year Smithis Latin Lessons. Special emphasis on forms and vocabu- laries. Daily written exercises. The main rules of syntax. Second- Year Caesaris Gallic War. Grammar and prose Bks. I-IV. composi-

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HISTORY Ancient HistoryeA brief survey of Egypt and the early Orient; a more intensive study of the his- tory of Greece and its civiliza- tion; a similar treatment of the history of Rome, with emphasis on the late Republic and the Em- pire. The course brings European history down to 800 A. D. Text: West's Ancient World. Modem HistoryeA general outline of European History from the end of the Roman Empire through the Great War. Special attention is given to the forces and move- ments which have produced pres- ent political conditions in Europe. Text. Westis Modern World. American HistoryeA survey of the course of American history, with considerable emphasis on the period since the Civil War. This course is given in the first see mester of the school year. Text: Westis History of the American People. 32 GROUP OF STUDENT American, GorormncnteA study of the structure and the workings of Federal, State and local gov- ernment in the United States. This course is given in the sec- ond semester of the school year. The class attends a meeting of the City Council in Minneapolis and a trial in the Court House and also visits the State Capitol in St. Paul and the State Prison at Stillw-ater. Text: Magruder's American Government. Notc-Besides the study of the textbook, each course includes weekly supplementary readings and considerable map work. At- tention is also given to current history. EconomimeAn introduction to the Study of problems which affect our material welfare; such as production, distribution, compe- tition and monopoly, money, banking, savings and investment, international trade, etc. An at-