Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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The Petefeeri Collegiate Institute 39 II The Institute is generously equipped With apparatus in the several departments of science. I2 It has a library for reference number- ing over eight thousand volumes. I3 When a student is to be prepared for college, herpreparatory course is so arranged as to relieve her from Work not required for entrance at the college of her choice. I4 The regular charges pay for instruction in Greek, Latin, German, French, drawing, elocution, and calisthenics, and include fees for material used in laboratories. I 5 There are no extm charges. g General jfiietbulis uf Eiustructiun. The method of instruction in the Primary classes is intended to train the perceptive faculty to quick and accurate observation, as the student becomes able to pursue a pro- cess of reasoning, her powers of reHection are educated in the advancing grades of the school. T As the success of all higher study depends largely upon the character of elementary in- struction, care is taken, not only in the selection of teachers for the younger classes, but also in giving Well-ordered variety of

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38 ITM Packer Coflegiazfe fmfifufe Special Qlmantages. Attention is called to the following advan- tages offered to students atthis school: I Its location is accessible to students from all quarters of the city. a p 2 Its buildings are spacious, and are fur- nished With regard for the health of its stu- dents. , I 3 Its sanitary appointmentsare as com- lete and erfect as skillful architects can P lc h p ma e t em. . 4 Its students have the use of an elevator. 5 Its students are trained in light gym- nastics. i 6 Its students can secure Warm and Whole- some luncheon at cost. 7 It keeps Within narrow limits the num- ber of studies which a pupil may pursue at one time. ' 8' It employs only such teachers as have had experience and success, and secures those of high rank. ' 9 Every pupil is under the direct social influence of the teacher Who has charge of her gradeg in all of her studies she has in- struction from specialists. I0 Classes are subdivided so that the aver- age number of students under the teacher's instruction in recitations is fourteen.

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40 The Packet' Coflegittte Institute occupation to the pupils, and in guarding against such tendencies as beset the health of mind and body in the earlier years of life at school. In the Primary classes, the study ofwords, of natural objects, and of numbers, furnishes the pupil with subjects to talk and to Write about, and exercises, both oral and written, used constantly from the beginning of her Work, develop side by side her powers of thought and of expression. By such instruc- tion pupils in the lower classes of the Insti- tute are prepared to enter upon the studies of the Academicand Collegiate departments, and there theyido their Work in physical science, mathematics, language, history, and mental science, with success greater than is attained by the majority of those pupils who enter the Institute at an advanced point in the course. y 4 i ,,c