Report of Committee on College Entrance Requirements July, 1899The Association, 1899 - 184 páginas |
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admission to college Æneid algebra American Historical Association American Philological Association amount appointed arithmetic beginning botany Cæsar Catiline chairman chemistry Cicero classical college-entrance requirements Committee of Twelve courses of study curriculum desirable difficulty elementary course English entrance requirements exercises expression four four-year course geology geometry give given grades grammar Greek High School high-school course important instruction interest laboratory Latin aloud Latin course literature mathematics memorizing of selected ment method mittee modern language National Educational Association natural opinion outline Ovid periods physical geography plane geometry practice preparation preparatory present principles Professor pronunciation propositions Prose composition based pupil question reading of Latin recommend requirements for admission school course Secondary Education secondary schools sentences six-year course subcommittee suggested taught teachers teaching THOMAS DAY SEYMOUR thoro thoroly thru thruout tion topics translation William Carey Jones zoölogy
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Página 112 - The work should comprise, in addition to the elementary course, the reading of about 400 pages of moderately difficult prose and poetry, with constant practice in giving, sometimes orally and sometimes in writing, paraphrases, abstracts, or reproductions from memory of selected portions of the matter read ; also grammatical drill upon the less usual strong verbs, the use of articles, cases, auxiliaries of all kinds, tenses and modes (with special reference to the infinitive and subjunctive), and...
Página 114 - ... abstracts, sometimes oral and sometimes written, of portions of the text already read. 4. Writing French from dictation. 5. Continued drill upon the rudiments of grammar, with constant application in the construction of sentences. 6. Mastery of the forms and use of pronouns, pronominal adjectives, of all but the rare irregular verb forms, and of the simpler uses of the conditional and subjunctive.
Página 114 - La Mere Michel et son chat, Erckmann-Chatrian's stories, Foa's Contes biographiques and le petit Robinson de Paris, Foncin's Le pays de France, Labiche and Martin's La poudre aux yeux and Le voyage de M. Perrichon, Legouve and Labiche's La cigale chez les fourmis.
Página 128 - Ancient history, with special reference to Greek and Roman history, and including also a short introductory study of the more ancient nations and the chief events of the early Middle Ages, down to the death of Charlemagne (814).
Página 102 - The reading of from 75 to 100 pages of graduated texts from a reader, with constant practice in translating into German easy variations upon sentences selected from the reading lesson (the teacher giving the English), and in the reproduction from memory of sentences previously read. During the second year the work should comprise: 1. The reading of from 150 to 200 pages of literature in the form of easy stories and plays. 2.
Página 102 - During the first year the work should comprise : (i) careful drill upon pronunciation; (2) the memorizing and frequent repetition of easy colloquial sentences; (3) drill upon the rudiments of grammar, that is, upon the inflection of the articles, of such nouns as belong to the language of everyday life, of adjectives, pronouns, weak verbs, and the more usual strong verbs ; also upon the use of the more common prepositions, the simpler uses of the modal auxiliaries, and the elementary rules of syntax...
Página 68 - Latin lessons, accompanied from an early stage by the reading of very simple selections. Easy reading : twenty to thirty pages of consecutive text. In all written exercises the long vowels should be marked, and in all oral exercises pains should be taken to make the pronunciation conform to the quantities. The student should be trained from the beginning to grasp the meaning of the Latin before translating, and then to render into idiomatic English ; and should be taught to read the Latin aloud with...
Página 129 - Each of the above topics is intended to represent one year of historical work, wherein the study is given five times per week, or two years of historical work, wherein the study is given three times per week.
Página 102 - Drill upon the rudiments of grammar, that is, upon the inflection of the articles, of such nouns as belong to the language of every-day life, of adjectives, pronouns, weak verbs and the more usual strong verbs; also upon the use of the more common prepositions, the simpler uses of the modal auxiliaries, and the elementary rules of syntax and word -order.
Página 73 - Cicero: Any six orations from the following list, but preferably the first six mentioned: The four orations against Catiline, Archias, the Manilian Law, Marcellus, Roscius, Milo, Sestius, Ligarius, the fourteenth Philippic.