Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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The Packer Collegiate Imfifute 73 ments, and physical condition of the heavenly bodies, including such subjects of general interest as tides and eclipses, the changing seasons, the measurement of time, and the varying aspects of the planets. The lectures are illustrated by astronomi- cal models andglobes, and by lantern photo.. graphs. The Institute has two telescopes, a six-inch equatorial refractor, with clockwork and micrometer attachments, and a portable four-inch objective, for use on a part of the roof constructed with a view to convenience and safety in studying the topography of the heavens. - i Eramiug. i A continuous course of instruction in drawing runsthrough the curriculum of the Institute, and is taught by specialists. ln the Collegiate and Academic grades it is elective, in the Preparatory and Primary grades it is required. --qf----4 -2.:ff.Q.........-- -. ,,.. - Y-f -

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74 The Parker Collegiate Institute itunents cllinteting fiuliege. Wishing to encourage those who aspire to the 'honor of a scholastic degree, the Trustees of the Institute announce that stu- dents Who Withdraw from the Institute at the close of the Second or Third Collegiate grade to enter an approved college, may be considered as absent from the Institute on leave, having conditional membership With the class from which they have Withdrawn. A student availing herself of this privilege shall be eligible to graduation at the Insti- tute With her former classmates, fab pro- vided that she be recommended for such distinction by the teachers who vvere her in- structors during her last year' of study at the Institute, Qbj provided, also, that she pro- cure from the President or other authorized official of her college, a certificate that she has been pursuing a regular course of study continuously at such college during her absence from the Institute, has maintained satisfactory standing in the class which she ' ,.--.': H-L.:-- L '- ,.. 'if .. , I . ,ui 7-.V -