Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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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- , '

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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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60 T ite Packer Collegiate Institute where it secures excellent results in training pupils to good pronunciation. Charts and books are used, so that the eye, as Well as the ear, may be under training. In the Second and Third grades of the Preparatory department, students Who are approved in their English studies are allowed to enter classes in French or German. The instruction is given on three days inthe Week. In the middle of the First Prepara- tory grade, the regular study of French or German is begun, With daily recitations. These lessons in Modern Language for students of the Preparatory grades are of significant value. They give the mental training which no study save that of Latin offers. P At the middle of the Third Academic grade French or German is chosen by every student not already assigned to the study of Modern Language in the First Preparatory department, and the study is continued with daily recitations at least two years and a half befbre another modern language may be be- gun. The aim of this course is to enable the student to acquire thorough grammatical l I 1