Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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58 The Petefrer Collegiate Institute of Victorian thought in the prose of Carlyle, Ruskin, Darwin, Newman, Arnold, Pater, and the great novelists 3' the other, a comparison ofthe Age of Elizabeth with the Age of Victoria,-a study of Spenser, Shalcespearey Tennyson, and Browning. LATIN AND GREEx.- The course in Latin, beginningiwith the Third Academic grade, may be followed, as German or French may be followed, through six years of uninter- rupted study. The 'Roman pronunciation is used. F or the first two years Latin must be pursued by every member of a regular course. The work of the fifth and sixth years is optional. In the two years of required Latin the pupil acquires the elements of grammar, reads several books of Cxsar, or an equiva- lent, and begins prose composition. Stress is laid upon the mastery of the fundamental principles of language, and the acquirement of accurate habits of thought and expres- sion. y In the highest Academic and lowest Col- legiate grades, orations of Cicero and P3113

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The Packer Collegiate Imiifufe a 57 In the lowest grade of the Collegiate de- partment, the Work in English composition consists of exercises in the use of the library, the keeping of a tabulated note-book, some literary criticism, and drill on the Word and the sentence. The Work in literature, a re- quired course, is the history of English lit- erature from its sources through the age of Pope, with special study of Beewuf and se- lections from Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, and Pope. The students preparing for college do not take the regular Work of this grade, but are prepared in a special class to meet the col- lege requirements. In the Second Collegiate grade, a course in advanced rhetoric is required, illustrated by selections from modern prose, and an elective course, in literature is oH ered, treat- ing of the Romantic movement from Thom- son to Keats. it ' The rhetorical Work for the Senior year comprises a study of the essay as a form of lighter literature, and Writing based on thiS study and on current topics. Two elective coprses in literature are given: one, a study

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The Packer Collegiate Institute 59 of Vergil are read and prose composition is completed. Suitable provision is made for those Who Wish to fulfill the requirements for admission to the several colleges. Greek' may be substituted for a modern languagefk The curriculum in the main cor- responds to the preparatory and the first twoiyears of college Greek. 1 . In the last two years of the classical course the character of the Work and the authors read may vary from time to time, -accord- ing to the special needs or taste of those who Wish to complete the six years' course. More attention will be given to literary or archaeological topics than to the purely lin- guistic aspects of the study. Forthis pur- pose the Institute has a choice collection of lantern slides, photographs, casts, and other material for illustrating the classics--a col- lection which is receiving frequent additions. FRENCH AND GERMAN.-- French and Ger- man are taught throughout the course of study. The natural method is used in teach- ing the classes of the Primary department, ' See page 43. 9- , '