Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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32 ADELPHI ACADEMY. Summary of Class Work from the Sixth Grade Upwards. I. Department of English: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. The continuous English Work in the Academy from the Ist to- the 7th Grade inclusive, carries the pupil through a large amount of reading in History, Literature, Geography, and Natural Science. It is expected that the scholar will study grammar in literature, and not literature in grammar. The use of a formal English Grammar, except as a book of reference, is discouraged, and effort is made to teach English by the laboratory method, by reading, repeating, dis- cussing, and if possible, feeling the finest masterpieces of the mother-tongue. I. Eighth Grade. Selected Works of XIX. Century authors, Ameri- can and British, Irving, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Warner, Burroughs, Scott, Dickens, Kingsley, Tennyson. Compositions. Three hours weekly. 2. junior Year. Classical and Scientific Courses. The study of Eng- lish Prose Style. XVIII. and XIX. Century Authors. Compositions. Three hours weekly, second half-year. 3. Junior Year. Collegiate Course. Early and Middle English. Earlier Elizabethan Literature. Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer, Cook's Judith, Skeat's Chaucer, Kitchen's Spenser's Faery Queen. Composition. Four hours weekly. , 4. junior Middle Year. Classical and Scientific Courses. XVIII. and XIX. Century Authors. Introduction to Shakespeare and Milton. Composi- tion. Three hours weekly, first half-year. 5. Junior Middle Year. Collegiate Course. Introduction to Shakes- peare and Milton. Minor XVII. Century Authors. Composition. Three hours weekly. 6. Senior Middle Year. All Courses. XVIII. Century Authors: The Classical Schoolg The Essay, The Novel. XIX. Century, The Romantic School. Composition. Two hours weekly. 7. Senior Year. All Courses. XIX. Century: The Man and Na- ture Schoolg Victorian Authors. Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon. Composi- tion. Two hours weekly.

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COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT .-Senior Middle Year. Classical. Collegiate. Hours Scientific. fG?:l'i I. English Literature. Latin.-Livy, Horace, English Literature. 1. . H ' Pliny. Latin. as before. 0. 1Q11S11?11L11e1f119111e- ? Greek.-Homer, Pla- German, . . 0. G'?1111 111 - - 0- to's Apology. French, . . n. 51519111 - - 0- Gernian, . . o. Spanish, . . 0. 511111115111 - 0- 3 French. . . o. ll. Mediaeval I-list., o. Medizeval Hist., with Mediaeval History, o. 3 Political History' of A-nc. and Med. Art. Political History of England and United Political History of England and United States. England and . S. States. 3 III. P. C. P. C. P. C. 2 lik Cgomp8,:HDIiive Mineralogy and Bot- llilwifbalogy and Bog- 3 na. omyan iysi- lany. . . -o. Lil - ' it ' ology, . . 0. Biology, Comparative Hfmilggfgyftongy 3 Mineralogy and Bot- Anatomy and Physi- phvsics. ' 5' ' ' 3 211115 ' ' 0' 010551' Gheinistry. 4.9 3 V. Aesthetic. 1 VI. 'T 1' i g on o-in e t r y Trigonometry iv i t h with Surveying and Surveying and Me- Drawiug. . . o. Cll2LlllC2l,1Dl'8.Wlllg. 3 14 hours required. 14 hours required. 6 2?Ninehours of Science Must choose G more. more to choose. required. Senior Year. I. English Literature. 2 fLa.ti7n, Horace, U - 3 1 Tacitus, Plautus. English Literature. Fun-usb O 2 !:g1Greek1 Thucxd' giggflus I gf Clefniaif, 0: 2 o Demosthencs, F, I Branch O 2 5 L The Drama.. 1611011 - 0- ' ' German, . . o. French, . . o. II. Modern History Mode-rn History and Modern History and and Politics. Politics. Politics. . . o. 3 Political Economy and Political Economy and Political Economy and Sociology. Sociology. . . o. Sociology. 3 III. P. C. P. C. P. C. 2 ' Astronomy, lst Sem.. . . o. Astronomy and Geol- lV. Astronomy and Geology..2dSein., o. ogy. . . o. 3 Geology. . . o. Higher Biology, . 0. Physics, . . o. 3 Une Science to be Chemistry, .- 0. 3 chosen. Six hours required. V. Aesthetic. o. 1 . Calculus and Analyti- History and Elements ,xl C t A D 3 VL1yg2fmh'fmN1A2f Of 1'11110S0D11Y H1111 tigciiiilfxffieiigfsigii, 3. 3 Psychology. One must be chosen. VII. History of Edu- cation. ist Sem. o. History of Commerce a. n d lndustry. 2d Sem. . . o. 1. History of the Fine Arts in Modern Times, . . o. 2. llistory of Educa- tion. lst Sem., o. History of Commerce and Industry. 2d Sem., . . o. 13 hours req ui rc d . Must choose G more. 13 hours required. Must choose 6 more. 12 hours required. Must choose 7 more. 1-Esthetic.-Music, Drawing, Elocution. 0, -Optional,

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ADELPH1 ACADEMY. 33 II. Department of Vlodern Languages. A. THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, The French instruction in the 4th and 5th grades is chiefly oral. Especial attention is given to the acquisition of a correct pronunciation, and of avocabulary for com- mon use. There is some reading of easy French, as in Le Livre des Enfants and Anecdotes Nouvelles. There is practice in Writing French and in committing short passages to memory. I. Sixth Grade. Reading and Conversing. Systematic drill, oral and Written, in the Elements of the language. Drill Book A. Three times weekly. 2. Eighth Grade. Drill Book B 9 rapid reading of short stories Ueune Siberienne, Chien du Capitaine, etc.jg translation from English into French, dictation exercises. Three hours weekly. I3. junior Year. Reading of French histories, with discussions and exercise in translation. Optional. Three hours weekly. 4. Junior Middle Year. French Literature, XIX. Century QManuel de Litterature Francaisejg letter-writing, discussions. Optional. Three hours weekly. 5. Senior Middle Year. French Literature, XVIII. Centuryg col- lateral reading Q French compositions. Optional. Three hours weekly. 6. Senior Year. French Literature, XVII. Century, as before. Op- tional. Three hours weekly. B. THE SPANISH LANGUAGE. It is intended to provide sufficient instruction in Spanish to enable the pupil to talk and read the language. The plan of work will have especial reference to the probable use of Spanish in trade. 1. Junior Middle Year. Conversation and easy reading. Exercise in writing 9 Study of relation between Spanish and Latin. 2. Senior Middle Year. Oral practice, with reading and Spanish composition. C. THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Prior to the 6th Grade, the Adelphi student has already had instruction in German through four years, and should be the master ofa considerable vocabulary. Next year the transition from the old to the new course of study will compel the study of German in the 6th Grade instead of French, although the latter study is called for by the schedule. The students of that grade will next year be entering upon only their second year's study of German. The modern language work of the 6th Grade next year, therefore, will be practice in German conversation, and exercisein reading and writing easy German. I. Seventh Grade. joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Part I. Von Eichen- dorf :' Ausdem Leben eines Taugenichts. Selections from l-lauff's Die Kara- vane. Conversation and simple compositions.