Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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68 The Pezeleer Collegiate Institute with simple practical demonstrations and tests. This course, continuing through the year, is based upon the first ten chapters of James's Psychology, with reference Work from Ziehen, Titchener, Ribot, and Preyer. The departmentis furnished with the large Auzoux model of the brain, and With Ziegler models of the developing brain and of the vertebrate series, also With instru- ments of precision for pulse and reaction time. , Zuulugp. The coursein Zoology runs through a semester of the Third Academic grade. Students who elect this study meet daily for recitations, and have, in addition, two labora- tory periods a Week for the study of types of the animal kingdom. The department is equipped with a large collection of prepared specimens, With charts, and With excellent microscopes. y T illbpwirvunbp. c The course in physiography has daily rec1tat1ons during one semester, and may be

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fe hflfitleg, 'te-book COLUSQJ digests, :ed pho- ffl daily, :arefully photo- :ions are eory of rl in the re grade. to this trumenf Student ly is 110i InStrUC' devoted id anal' t regular as Well 1tiO1'1 for The Packer Collegiate Institute 67 practical composition. The approval of the Director of Music, as Well as the Principal s approval, is required before a student may enter this course. t l itugir ann jpzprbulogp. The Senior class meets daily for instruc- tion in logic and psychology. The course openswith a series of studies in Greek phi- losophy. -These studies include the reading and discussion of selections from the pre- Socratic f'fragments, Xenophon's Memo- rabilia, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Meta- physics and Ethics. Following the Work in philosophy, a course in Aristotelian logic is given, in which the theory of the syllogism is taught. A study of mental functions concludes the Work of the year. This course is based upon the last eighteen chapters of James's Psy- chology, With reference Work from Stout, surly, Ladd, ana Haframg. At the outset, the Senior class is divided into small sections, each having a Weekly additional lesson in physiological psychology,

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6 ns and 'gh the hapters TC Work Preyer. th the ld with tin and instru- :action ugh a grade.. ily for abora- frees ent is :pared :ellenf daily ay be The Packer Collegiate Institute 69 elected in either the Second or Third Aca- demic grade. ln addition to the recitations, two hours a Week are given to laboratory Work on charts, maps, models, and other illustrative material. Qccasional excursions are made for field study, in which general and local features of the earth's form are examined in process of development. mbpsinlugp. Students of physiology meet their instruc- tors daily through a semester of the First Academic yeargfor lectures and recitations, and also twice each Week for Work in the laboratory. They perform illustrative ex- periments and simple dissections, and are taught the use of the microscope in the ex- amination of tissues. The department is furnished with Auzoux and Ziegler models of special organs, a mani- kin, a skeleton, simple and compound micro- d l t rn and orte scopes, microtomes, an a an e p - lumiere for microscopiC prOjCC'C10H- . -e..,,.. ,, Y4