Catalogue of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year (1896) (14590800168)

Arithmetic class
Identifier: catalogueofha961903hamp (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year ..
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Subjects: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Publisher: Hampton : Institute Steam Press
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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es Standish, Snow Bound, short poems by Longfellow andWhittier, A Civic Reader, Ten Boys on the Road from LongAgo to Now, First Lessons in American History. Old Testament History from the Creation to theBible Study Israelitish Kingdom, including stories of the earlyraces, lives of the Patriarchs, the Exodus, the wan-dering in the wilderness, the conquest of Canaan, and the period ofthe Judges—Genesis to Ruth inclusive. Normal Music Course (Holt System). 1. Tone drill. Vocal riusic 2. The major scale in nine positions. Scale writing. Intervals. Sight reading in parts. In this year the charts and readers of the Normal Course are used, together with a great deal of supplementary music reading. Brush work. Elementary color. Original designsDrawing in color for cards and book covers in connectionwith English work.Work illustrative of academic branches in pencil, crayon,charcoal and color. Color work from plant and insect forms illustrative of nature study. II A M PTON I N ST l T l T E *)
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Arithmetic Class Studying Speers System Vertical writing taught. Letters classified, move-Penmanship ment drill given, special attention paid to posi- , tlon of hody> and hand practice on blackboard andwith pen and paper. The Swedish or Ling System is followed, and aUymnastics large gymnasium in Academic Hall has been fittedup with Swedish apparatus.The gymnasium drill includes floor work,exercises on apparatusand gymnastic games. The floor work embraces all the fundamental positions of the body, bending, twisting, jumping, runningmarching, etc, special stress being laid upon breathing exercisesand the position of the chest. The apparatus comprises stall bars and benches, straight andslanting ropes, double boom, jumping standards, and balance beams.It is the purpose of the gymnastic games to train in swiftnessand exactness both mind and body, and at the same time to afforda pleasant relaxation from the military discipline in the other partot the drill. The popular game of basket-ba