Catalogue of the Officers and Students

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Page 9 - ... and by that name shall have succession and they and there successors shall and may forever hereafter by the same name be able and capable in law to sue and be sued implead and be impleaded answer and be answered unto defend and be defended...
Page 32 - The first object requires instruction in grammar and composition. English grammar should ordinarily be reviewed in the secondary school, and correct spelling and grammatical accuracy should be rigorously exacted in connection with all written work during the four years.
Page 47 - New York, NY, and must be made upon a blank form, to be obtained from the Secretary of the Board upon application.
Page 41 - The amount of reading specified above shall be selected by the schools from the following authors and works : Caesar (Gallic War and Civil War) and Nepos (Lives) ; Cicero (Orations, Letters , .and De Senectute) and Sallust, (Catiline and Jugurthine War) ; Vergil (Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid) and Ovid (Metamorphoses, Fasti, and Tristia).
Page 36 - Huxley's Autobiography and selections from Lay Sermons, including the addresses on Improving Natural Knowledge, A Liberal Education, and a Piece of Chalk; Stevenson's Inland Voyage and Travels With a Donkey.
Page 35 - The Old Testament, comprising at least the chief narrative episodes In Genesis, Exodus, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Daniel, together with the books of Ruth and Esther...
Page 33 - English grammar should ordinarily be reviewed in the secondary school ; and correct spelling and grammatical accuracy should be rigorously exacted in connection with all written work during the four years. The principles of English composition governing punctuation, the use of words...
Page 36 - Selections from Lincoln, including at least the two Inaugurals, the Speeches in Independence Hall and at Gettysburg, the Last Public Address, and the Letter to Horace Greeley, along with a brief memoir or estimate; Parkman's Oregon Trail; either Thoreau's Walden, or Huxley's Autobiography and selections from Lay Sermons...
Page 39 - Study This part of the requirement is intended as a natural and logical continuation of the student's earlier reading, with greater stress laid upon form and style, the exact meaning of words and phrases, and the understanding of allusions.
Page 34 - The test on the books prescribed for study will consist of questions upon their content, form and structure, and upon the meaning of such words, phrases, and allusions as may be necessary to an understanding of the works and an appreciation of their salient qualities of style. General questions may also be asked concerning the lives of the authors, their other works, and the periods of literary history to which they belong.

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