Catalogue of Penn College, 1902-1903

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tions of easy Latin, or parts of Caesar during the last half of the
year.
II. Exercises in Prose Composition and in Forms and Syn-tax
are continued with the reading of four books of Caesar, and
four orations of Cicero, or their equivalents, together with
increased attention given to Sight Reading.
III. Six books of Vergil, or the equivalent in Vergil and
Ovid, are read, with exercises in Prose Composition and Signt
Reading. This year of Latin is not required of Scientific
students.
Mathematics
I. Algebra, five recitations weekly throughout the First
year.
II. Algebra, two recitations weekly throughout the Second
year.
The work in Algebra starts with the beginning of the sub-ject.
Special attention is given to factoring, fractions, theory
of exponents, radicals, quadratic equations, proportion, the
progressions and the binomial theorem for positive integral
exponents.
III. Plane Geometry, three recitations weekly throughout
the Third year. Original exercises constitute an important part
of the work in this course.
English
The work in English presupposes a thorough review of
Grammar after the completion of the common school, and for
those who lack such preparation a review course in Grammar
is offered each Spring term.
I. The first year's work is a course of five hours per week
in composition, using Scott & Denney's Elementary Composition
combined with the reading and study of the simpler authors.
II. The second year, a five-hour course, is devoted to the
study of formal Rhetoric, with much drill in writing, alternat-ing
with the study of Literature, chiefly of American authors.
III. The third year, a two-hour course, is spent in the
study of English Classics and, in connection therewith, in the
study of Mythology, using Gayley's Classic Myths as a text.
Science
I. Physiology. The Scientific students will have Physiology
the first half of the third year. The work will consist of reci-