Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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20 WENTWOKTU MlLiTAKY ACADEMY. The following reading course will be rniiiin -1 ol .ill students acfordiiij to the vcars iianu ' d. and writtfii c. uiiuaatioD6 will be given upon ihe U uk: named a each is iinished. SECOND YEAR. Tcfinyson ' s Enoch Arden. Aut ' bio):|r.i[ihv it ' Benjamin FnmUtit. Si Pierre ' s I ' aul and Virgiuau Aroold ' s Life of HaanibaL THI DYCAR. Sc(itt 8 Lady of the Lake. Hawthorne ' s Tanglewood Tales. Johnson ' s Rassdas. Mow s Lalk Rookh. FOURTH YEAR. • Macaulay ' s Wnrron Hastings Thackeray ' s Pendennis. Shakspere ' s Merchant ol Venice. Mulocb ' b John Halifax, Gentleman. FIFTH YEAR. Macaulay ' s Essay on Lord Bacon. Byron ' s Childe Harold ' s Pilgrimage Geofge Eliot ' s Felix Holt, the Radical. Lamb ' s Essays of EUa.

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Englibh.— Hyde ' s English Lessons; McGuffisy ' s Speller; Worcester ' s Academic Dictionary; Mauray ' s Geographies; Reed and Krllo j ' s (iraded Lt-ssf ns; Classics £ur Childreo; C bitten den ' s Com[ t)sitioii; Hurt ' :-. Klu ioric. Mathematics. — Ray ' s PraciicaJ Aritiinittic; 300 AuthonV Arithmetic; Wentworth ' s Algebras, Geometry and Tr%(MM»nctry ; Davies ' Surveying. Latin — Harknesb ' s Fint Year Course, Grammar, Wood- ford ' s Atjridj;(. ' l Ca-sar; Allen ' s Composition; Harkness ' s Cttsar, Sallust and Cicero; Harper ' s L( ' xi( (tti; Greenoiiijh ' s Vergil. GREtK. — While s B inncr ' b Greek book; Goodwin ' s Gram- mar and Anabasis; Jones ' Composition; Anthon ' s MeroiMrabilla; Seymour ' s Homer; Lidddl and Scott ' s Lexlcm. German,— Joynes-Meissncr ' s Grammar ami Exerdsea; Joynes ' Reader; fJelections from Classics. French. — Edgren ' s Grammar; Super ' s Reader, Lanuurtine, Voltaire, Hugo, Molicre and Racine, Exercises. Spanish. —Monsanto ;md Langudfier ' s Grammar; Lebro de Lectitra No. a, La Famiiia de Alveredo, La Independencia. History.— Goodrich ' s History of the Woild; Kyyleston ' s History of the United States; Tbalbeimer ' a Englisb History;. Meyer ' s General 1 1 islor -. . SciENCt:. Game ' s Natural Pliilosi | liy: Sleelc ' s Chemistry; Hutchinson ' s Physiology; Maury ' s i ' hysical Geography; tiurt ' s Sdcnce Primer. Commercial.— Rochester Busifiess University Book-Keep- tag; Clinton ' s Commercial Laws, Barnes Arithmetic. Miscellaneous —Steele ' s Outlines of Bible Study; U. S. A t ller ' , Cavalry and Intantry Drill Rej ' ulalions; Kennon ' s Manual of Guard Duty; Mercur ' s Art of War; Winthrop ' s Mili- tary Law.

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WEMTWORTH XUJTARY ACADEMY 21 Leetarc Geurje. Three yean ago the scboob of Lexington united in the establiahment a lecture oonne iriiidi sboukl be enterUumi and at the same time instructive. The cost to students of a season tkket to five lectures is one dollar. The Gouf8eibri893 has not yet been made out, but it is our intention to makeit equal if not superior to any we have yet given. These lectures !i:ive !i(T( tofore been given by sin li men as V. M. R. French, W. H. Sher ' ood, Frank Beard. 11. Stanley [{i niDn, Robert Noursc, Robt, J. BurdettP, Geo. R. Weodling, Jas, Hedleyj Geo. W. Bain, Robt. Mclntyre, and others of equal merit. « On account of the niiisic il talent accunlulated here by our three colleges for yoiinR ladies, we can ofTer lo our {xilrons un- usual advaiitaijcs in both instrumental and voral music. In.stnic- tidu will be j iven in vocal music, alsn on the violin, guitar, numdolio and piano, by accomplished teachers. btoGutiow eiijci Orottorj. The .Snperinlendcnt believes he cannol plare loo much stre.vi up(»n the importance of this very prai tical feature of education. No matter what car a boy may choose, this study cannot fail to be bencAciaL