Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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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

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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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The Packer Collegiate Institute 61 knowledge, and ability to use it in composi- tion, reading at sight, and conversation. In the advanced Work in French the Classical Period is studied. Plays of Cor- neille and Racine and selections from other authors are critically read, and the history of France in the seventeenth century is also carefully considered. To studentsnwish- ing to continue the study of French litera- ture, various courses are ioH'ered,- the eigh- teenth century and its relation to the French Revolution, the drama and lyric poetry of the Restoration, philosophy in France from Cousin to Renang the earlier periods of literature, including readings from Mon- taigne. r , In the German course the reading of clas- sics is begun in the fourth semester, and continues for four years, so that Works of Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Heine, Freytag, as Well as those of more recent Writers, are familiar to a student Who elects German throughout her course. ln, the fifth and sixth semesters this critical reading is sup- plemented by an introduction to the history of German literature. In the seventh semes- tx ,-2,