Asheville School - Blue and White Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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20 A s h ev ill e School. SECOND FORM. English: Reading. Grammar, completed. Punctuation, Composition. Arithmetic: Partial Payments. Bank Discount. Longitude and Time. Exchange. Insurance. Duties or Customs. Ratio. Simple and Compound Proportion. Partnership. Involution. Square Root. Metric System. Latin: Paradigms and simple syntax. Marking quantities of vowels. Easy reading. Written exercises. Reading of Latin aloud. Training in understanding the Latin before translating. History: United States, including Constitution, completed. Collateral reading. THIRD FORM— Classical. English: Reading of examples of various styles of narrative and descriptive literature in both prose and verse. Study of words and sentences. Compositions, narrative and descriptive. Latin: Selections from Viri Romae and Nepos. Caesar ' s Gal- lic War, Bk. II. Prose composition based on Caesar. Mathematics: Algebra, through Quadratic Equations. History: Outlines of General History. Carpentry. THIRD FORM— Scientific. English: Reading of examples of various styles of narrative and descriptive literature in both prose and verse. Study of words and sentences. Compositions, narrative and descriptive. Latin: Selections from Viri Romae and Nepos. Caesar ' s Gallic or War, Bk. II. Pross compositon based on Caesar. German I: See page 23 for details. Mathematics: Algebra, through Quadratic Equations. History: Outlines of General History. Carpentry.

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rSf eSf rj( Jg vjv Jgt HE Courses of Study mention the minimum requirements for each form. Pupils of either course are permitted and encouraged to take studies of the other course when additional work can be done profitably. Each pupil must take all studies required for entrance to the college of his choice. Both Physics and Chemistry must be taken by pupils of the Scientific Course, and each pupil of this course must take such languages — Latin, German or French — as his chosen college requires for admission. Pupils who intend to offer two years of German and two years of French for admission to college will take German in the third and fourth forms and French in the fifth and sixth forms. FIRST FORM. English: Reading. Study of Parts of Speech and Syntax. Punctuation. Composition. Arithmetic: Percentage, omitting Stocks and Stock Invest- ments. Simple interest, all cases. History: United States, through period of the Revolution. Collateral reading. Drawing. [19]

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Asheville School. 21 FOURTH FORM— Clasiscal. English: Reading of such works as Twice-Told Tales, As You Like It, The Idylls of the King. Advanced study of words, sentences, paragraphs. Compositions, narrative and descriptive. Latin: Caesar ' s Gallic War, Bks. I-III-IV. Vergil ' s Aeneid, Bk. I. Caesar and Nepos at sight. Prose Composition based on Caesar. Greek: Paradigms and simple syntax. Xenophon ' s Anabasis (20 to 30 pages). Practice in translation at sight and in writing Greek. Systematic study of Grammar begun. Mathematics: Plane Geometry, completed. History: Greece. FOURTH FORM— Scientific. English: Reading of such works as Twice-Told Tales, As You Like It, The Idylls of the King. Advanced study of words, sentences, paragraphs. Compositions, narrative and descriptive. Latin: Caesar ' s Gallic Wars, Bks. I-III-IV. Vergil ' s Aeneid, Bk. I. Caesar and Nepos at sight. Prose composition based on Caesar. German I or II: See page 23 for details. Mathematics: Plane Geometry, completed. History: England. Shopwork: Mechanical Drawing. FIFTH FORM— Classical. English : Reading and study of books required for preliminary examinations for entrance to college. Elements of Rhet- oric. Compositions, descriptive and argumentative. Latin: Vergil ' s Aeneid, Bks. II-VI, and either the Eclogues or Bks. VII-IX of Aeneid. Prose composition, based on Caesar. Translation of prose Latin at sight. Greek: Xenophon ' s Anabasis, continued, Bks. I-IV, together with other Attic prose. Practice in translation at sight. Systematic study of Grammar and practice in writing Greek, based on study of Bks. I and II of the Anabasis. I