1901-1902 Academic Catalog

Cedarville College. 25 in the Senior year as an elective. The text-books, Harper's In– troductory Method and J\1anual, and Harper's Elements of He– brew, are studied until the student has attained a good vocabu– lary and pronunciation, and can read readily. Exercises from Hebrew into English, and from English into Hebrew are re– quired daily. MATHEMATICS. The course in 1athematics is systematic anJ thorough. ex– tending through the Sophomore year . In the Preparatory Department the study of Algebra is taken up in the Junior year, and completed in the first term of the Se– nior year. The text u ed is Wentworth's Elemc:its of Algebra. The work of the first two terms extends through Quadratic Equations; the third and fourth terms are given up to a careful tudy of those principles of Algebra which find their application in Higher J\1athematics. During the Senior year, Plane, Solid and Sphl..'rical Geometry are taught. The text used is Wentworth' . Careful attention i given to the demon tration of theorems, in order to train the students in accurate and exact methods of reas•.ming. large number of original exerci e are given in order to cultivate the power of applying principle and method already learned, and to aid the student in the mastery of his own re ource . Conic Sections i studied in the Fall term of the Freshman year. In the Fre hman year, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry i taught during the second term. urveying and avigation <luring the third. A thorough study of the e ential principles of this subject i. required, and a large number of exerci e and e.·amples are given in order to cultivate kill in applying prin– ciph: . Enough attention is given to Surve) ing and avigation to make the student familiar with the principle and computations. 'l he general methods of land and water surveys and the laying out <Jf rail way curves are taught. Loomis' tc. ·t i used.