Union Academy - Yearbook (Belleville, NY)

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20 UNION ACADEMY DEPARTMENT OF ART The department of art will at present offer instruction in sketching and painting. Provision for other lines of work in this department will be made in accordance with the demand therefor. No previous preparation is required of pupils who take the Work of this department, hence no entrance examinations are necessary. X

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UNION ACADEMY IQ Selections from the works of standard classical composers are used in connection with the more modern Romantic school. FIRST YEAR-W. S. B. Matthews Studies, Grade I. Beginning technical work. Technical studies in all the differ- ent keys. Easy Rondos and Sonatinas by Lichner, Gurlitt and Burgmiiller. Easy selections suited to Grade I. SECOND YEAR-W. S. B. Matthews Studiesg- Grades II and III. Mason's Technical Exercises. Sonatinas by Kuhlau and Mozart. Selections by Englemann, Kohler, Streabog and others. THIRD YEAR1W. S. B. Matthews Studies, Grades IV and V. Kullak Octave Studies. Mason's Technical Exercises. Sonatas by Mozart and Haydn. Selections from Mendels- sohn, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert and other modern composers. FOURTH YEAR-W. S. B. Matthews Studies, Grades VI and VII, Bach Two Voice Inventions, Germer Technical Exercises, Selections from Beethoven, Grieg, Chaminade and others at the discretion of the teacher. - A two years course in harmony and one year in history of music is given with this course. All lessons are individual, and students are given work suited to their peculiar needs. A course of four years has been arranged, which, when completed to the satisfaction of the teacher, entitles the pupil to a diploma. - Pupils graduating from the musical department are required to pass a written examination in thoroughbass, har- mony composition and musical form, representing at least two years of study, and must also be conversant with the general history of music.

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THE MATHER SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE By the gift of 310,000 from the families of George Mather and William W. Mather, in 1901, a school of agriculture was added to the departments already taught at Union Academy. As Union Academy is the Hrst secondary school in the state to introduce agriculture into its curriculum, the progress has necessarily been slow. The rapidly increasing interest in the physical and natural science studies has paved the Way for the successful introduction of agriculture. Definite schedules have been formulated and the Work carefully planned to meet the needs both for the younger students Who may later take Work in an agricultural college or may return to the farm and for the older persons who may Wish to put in practice at once the principles of agriculture. For the former the course of instruction is so arranged that besides the principles that underlie practical agriculture one may also get sufficient English, mathematics, literature, modern language and science to enable one to secure the regular Academic Regents diploma. For those who care particularly for the practical side of agriculture they will devote their sole attention upon purely agricultural subjects, taking up the improved methods used in the various operations of farming, such as the use of farm machinery, value of fertilizers, both commercial and farm, treatment of soils, management of crops, feeding and caring for stock, dairy operations, poultry keeping, study of breeds and breeding, diseases of plants and animalsvvith methods for treatment of same, the study of chemistry in its application to agriculture, and insects in relation to grains and fruit trees. In short all phases of agriculture Will be treated. The courses of this department are three: 1. The regular four year course.