Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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62 The Pezeker Collegiate Institute, ter the study of the Second Classical Period is begun, and iscontinued through the eighth semester. The study of the romantic school of poetry and of the modern dramatists fol- lows. Courses which include the more diffi- cult study of the national epics, court epics, the literature of the time of the Reformation, or of the present time, are open to election by those students who continue the study of German to the end of the Senior year. jiilatbsmattus. In the lowest grade theistudent begins arithmetic with oral instruction and object- teaching. The study is carried through the Primary and Preparatory grades, oral instruc- tion gradually giving way to the use of a text- book, until the subject is completed at the middle of the highest Preparatory year. Stu- dents who are released from arithmetic at this point begin the study of Latin, others give a half year's review to arithmetic. Thestudy of mathematics is suspended during the first semester of the lowest grade of the Academic department. Many students

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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,

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The Packer Cottegtttte Institute 63 enter that grade from other schools, having had no instruction in elementary science, or in a modern language. They have been ac- customed to daily drill in arithmetic, and have come to think that their education de- pends chieliy upon mathematical study. It is advisable for such students to break the routine, and to begin Work in languages, in Zoology, in English history, and in English composition? In the second semester of the Third Aca- demic grade the study of algebra is begun, and the subject is continued for a year. In the lirst three terms of the First Aca- demic grade the Whole of plane geometry is taught. Beside learning the contents of the text-book, the students are required to Work out numerous original demonstrations. All regular students are assigned to the review of general principles in arithmetic, meeting the teacher daily during the fourth term of the First Academic grade. Tllhus far the study of mathematics is pre- scribed for all. It may be discontinued at point by those who Wish to take an if SCC foot this -HOtC, page 45 .