Liberty Ladies College - Liberty Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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HISTORY Second Year Preparatory-Three Hours. Ancient History. Covering the history of the Oriental, Greek, and Roman Periods. Text: Westls Ancient History. Third Year Preparatory-eThree Hours. Medieval and Modern History. Covering the history of Europe during the Medieval and Modern Periods. Lectures on special topics. Reference work required. Text: VVestis Medieval and Modern History. Fourth Year Preparatory-Three Hours. English Histoty. Covering the political and social history of the English people. Special reference work, and lectures on special topics. Text: TerryeSehool Edition. First Year College-Three Hours. American History. Covering the history of the Colonial and United States periods. Reference work required. Text: Chan- ningjs History of the United States. MATHEMATICS First Year Preparatory--Five Hours. Intermediate Practical Arithmetic. Text: W'entworth's School Arithmetic. In addition to the five hours given to the Practical Arithmetic, two hours are given to drill in Mental Arithmetic. Second Year Preparatory-Five Hours. Advanced Practical Arithmetic. Text: XNentworth'ls Advanced Arithmetic. M AT H E M A T I CSe-Continued. Third Year Preparatory-Five Hours. Algebra to Quadratic Equations. It is sought in this year to have pupils master thoroughly the fundamental principles of Algee bra; so that only a rapid review will be necessary when they take up the Higher Algebra. They are drilled in Analysis. Factoring. Solution of Simple Simultaneous Equations, Radicals, Integral and Fractional Exponents, Involution and Evolution. Graphs. Text: XVentwortlfs Elementary Algebra. Fourth Year PreparatoryeFive Hours. Advanced Algebra. A rapid review of that part preceding Quadratics. Solution of Simultaneous Quadratics. Equations solved as Quadraties, problems whose solution depends upon Quad- raties, Surds and Imaginary Equations; fornmtion 0f Equatiuns with given roots: Binomial Theorm for integral and fractional exponents, Logarithms, Ratio and Proportion, Variables. Limits. Series. Text: VVentwortlfs College Algebra. First Year College-Five Hours. Plane Geometry. Five books of plane geometry; Principlex Theory of Proportion. original problems. Text: lVenIWm'th. Second Year College, First Semester-Five Hours. Solid Geometry. Lines and planes in space. Dihedml :md polyhedral angles. Study of solid figure. Conic sections. Text: VVentworth, M A 7; Second Year Cc Plane Trigmmgg Oblique triangle. 'u Wentworth. Third Year Cc . The right :llltj NI: rical tngcmmmei1n . ' See0nd Physics. A brief and problenh on the : Leurse 1n thsics-lf, Chemistry. A if: laws, theories and an. Hractical iinpiin'tzlnce A LheniistryeLmnan C. Botany. Strncutn inanation of seed. AlQ'; Lise of analytical key held work. drawine; books. i Only one science Second X Thmw'mgh 51-97 Translmion e5 932. k

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ICOURSES IN DETAIL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE It is the aim of this department to equip the student with the habit of speaking and writing good English; an intelligent conception of the forms Of knowledge of good literature and the appreciation of it. First Year Preparatory-Five Hours. Advanced Grammar and Composition. Second Year Preparatory-Five Hours. Scott and Dennyts Composition-Rhetoric. Reading and Study: As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Lady of the Lake, Twice Told Tales, Irvingts Sketch Book. Sir Roger de Coverly Papers, Long't'cllowk Courtship of Miles Standish. Third Year Preparatory--Five Hours. First Semester: Halleckis Reading: Pancoastts Standard English Poems. Second Semester: Painter's American Literature. Studies from Standard prose writers, as Irving, Hawthorne and. Poe; from t-chrican poets, with special reference to Bryant, Poe, Longfellow, chitticr, Lowell and L'micr. Themes and note hooks required. This is primarily an introductory course, intended to bring students in contact with the wide range of literature, and to pre- pare the way for more specialized work. discourse ; and a History of English Literature.' Fourth Year Preparatory-Five Hours. Scott and, Dennyts CompositioneLiterature. Critical study of the structure and development of the paragraph, essay, and short story. Themes, affording practice in description, narration and exposition. Reading: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Carlyle,s Essay 011 Burns, Burkts Speech 011:, Conciliation with America, Silas Marner, Ivanhoe, Tennysorfs Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, Passing of Arthur. First Year CollegeeFive Hours. Carpenter and Brewsterts Modern Prose. This course is 21 rapid but critical survey of representative and, literary types of Modern English Prose. Private reading and essays are required, also exercises in making of abstracts, paraphrases, and outlines. Note books are required. Reading and study: Macbeth, Twelfth Night, MiItOIfs Minor Poems and Comus. Second Year College-Five Hours. W'inchestefs Literary Criticism. Special study of ShakeSpezu-ek DramaSwhve plays chosen to itlustrate the successive periods are studied, and other plays are .dvgiscussed in their connection with Shakespeares life; Milton, Tennyson, 21nd Browning, and their relatlon to the thought and feehng of then tune. Themes and neat, comprehenswe note books are required. Third Year College-Three Hours. Smitlfs Anglo-Saxon Grammar: Swectts Anglo-Saxon Reader; Lounsburyk Hlstory of the Enghsh Language.

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c S;Continued. ory-Five Hours. 15. It is sought in this year to iundnmeiital principles of Alge- .'ih be necessary when they take 3 drilled in Analysis. Factoring, Equations Radicals. Integral and and Evolution. Graphs. Text: itory-Five Hours. review of that part preceding ZallEOUS Quadratics. Equations ose solution depends upon Quad- tatiOHs: formation of Equations trim for integral and fractional ti 3 z::iportion, Variables, Limits, i. 1' age Algebra. e-Five Hours. of mlane geometry: Principles. V119. Text: XVentworth. i: Semester--Five Hours. d; in space. Dihedral and Crime sections. Text: M AT H EM ATICSk-Continued. Second Year College, Second SemestereThree Hours. Plane Trigonmnetry. Trigonometric functions. The right and oblique triangle. Gomometry. Construction of ,Tables. Text: W'entworth. Third Year College, First Semester-Three Hours. The. right and oblique spherical triangle. Applications of sphe- rical trigonometry. Text: VVentworth. S C I E N C E Second Year College-Three Hours. Physics. A brief course in general physics. Practical questiqns zmd problems 011 the application of general laws. Text: A Buck Course in PhysicseHoadley. Chemistry. A brief course in which is emphasized those facts, laws, theories and applications of chemistry which may become of practical importance in after life of student. Text: Descriptive ChemistryeLyman C. Nowell. Botany. Structure, relationships and functions of plants, ger- manation of seed Algze, fungi, bacteria, gymnosperms, angiosperms, use of analytical key and characteristics of most important families, held work, drawings showing the life history of the plant. Note hooks. Only one science is required. LATIN Second Year Preparatory-Five Hours. Thorough drill in vocabulary and forms. W'ritten exercises. Translation of short sentences. Text: Collar 8z Daniel. L A T I N e Continued. Third Year Preparatory-Five Hours. Caesar, Gallic War, Books I-IV. Prose CompOsition, oral and written. Syntax and construction glven especml attention. Fourth Year PreparatoryeFive Hours. Caesar, Book V. Cicero, Four Orations. Prose Composition. Syntax and construction. VVrltten exerCISes. First Year College-Five Hours. Virgil, six books of the Aeneid. Prose Composition continued. PI'OS'Ody. Mythology. Two thousand lines of -Ovidis Metaphoses may be substituted for two books of the Aeneid. Second Year College-Three Hours. Horace. Selections from the Odes, Satires, and Epistles. Com- position. Third Year College-Three Hours. Selections from Livy and Tacitus. G E R M A N Fourth Year Preparatory-Five Hours. Grammar, pronunciation, reading, composition and conversa- tion'based upon text read, drill upon colloquial sentences, and sight reading. Thomas Practical German Grammar, Part I. Van Daellis ttDas Deutsche Buchfi Movsher'is HWillkommen in Deutschland? First Year College-Five Hours. Part II of Thomas, German Grammar, with rttdditional exer- CISes 0n syntax; and advanced composltlon. Sight readmg; mem- orlzmg of poetry. x