1901-1902 Academic Catalog

26 Cedarville College. In the first part of the Sophomore year, Analvtical Geometry . . is required. This is intended as an introduction to the study of higher Mathematics. It is important to a thorough education; without it a student is ignorant of even the process of thought of the mathematician of his day. A general treatment is given of the Point, the Straight Line, the Circle, the Parabola, the Hyperbola and the Ellipse; also a discussion of the General Equa– tion of the Second Degree, and of a few of the Higher Plane Curves. Loomis' text is used. This is followed by an elementary study of the two branches of Calculus-Differential and Integral. Under the former is given a careful treatment of the differentiation of all functions, expansion of functions in series, maxima and minima of func– tions of a single variable. umerous examples illustrative of these principles are introduced. In the Integral Calculus the fol– lowing subjects are treated: Elementary forms of Integration, Integration of Rational Functions, Integration of Irrational Functions, Integration by series, etc. Loomis' text is used in this also, and numerous examples are introduced illustrating all of these principles. M EN T A'L SCI ENCE. Porter's Elements of I!]telkctual Science is the text-book. It is completed during the fir~t t 1 ;vo terms of the Junior Collegiate year. The instruction is by the recitation and lecture system. The topics studied and discus eel are Psychology and its relations to other Sciences, the Soul and its relation to Matter, the Hum~n Intellect under the headings of Presentation and Presentative Knowledge, R~pre entation, Thought and Thought Knowledge, and Intuitions. The study of Psychology "promotes self-know– ledge, and moral culture, disciplines to moral reflection, trains to the knowledge of human nature, is indispensaHe to educators, creates the study of literature" and impel to general scientific research. It is the parent of all sciences. Upon it are based political, social, legal, cesthetic, theological, metaphysical and