GENERAL INFORMATION 31 . .
?» Composition and Reading. One unit. Advanced German Gram- i `
H mar; composition; the reading of about two hundred pages of
German prose of medium difficulty; the reading of some of the
— easier German lyrics. l
E FRENCH. A two years’ course in French, equivalent to the two
H years’ course in German just outlined, will be accepted in lieu of the V '
latter. .
i- _ NATURAL SCIENCES.   q
H CHEMISTRY. One unit. To be accepted, Chemistry must have i`
n I been studied for one school year, and should have rendered the
student familiar with the following topics in non-metallic chem- . ·_
*5 istry: Properties of the principal yacid-forming elements and
N their compounds; simple problems on relations by weight; relations
° between gas volumes and the weights of chemically related solids, I
‘e acids, bases and salts, valence; series of oxy-acids and their salts; `
A oxidation and reduction; acid anhydrides; hydrated and poly-
n i acids.
U PHYSICS. One unit. The work in Physics to be acceptable
must cover a full year in a text book not lower than Gage’s Ele- .
ie ments. The text book used must contain many problems illustra-
tive of the principles of the text, and the student must be able .
:5 to handle these problems well. It is recommended that the student A ,
S, _ shall also have done forty or more experiments of a quantitative . `
t character. Y — . 1 _
jé . In Science new facts are being discovered almost daily. Text- A .  
` books on these subjects should be up-to-date. To be accepted as
possessing one-half unit value, each of the following elective sub- _
Cl jects must have been pursued for at least one-half of the school
year. ·
U . AsTRoNoMY.-—-In Astronomy the student should have learned V. ·
l' the elementary facts regarding the earth and other members of
l' the solar system as to their sizes, distances and motions around , .
`? the sun, how the moon causes our tides, what causes the change I
l` _ of seasons, methods of reckoning time, the causes of eclipses, etc. .
:0 The laboratory methods of studying this subject suggested by ‘
k Todd’s Astronomy and Laboratory Manual of Astronomy by Mary
E. Byrd are strongly recommended. ‘ » ‘
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