ENGLISH
1. (a) English Literature. Halleck's History of English Literature (American Book Co.) pp. 1-304; with the following readings: Chaucer, Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I; Milton, Comus; Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Dryden and Pope; European History (G.B. Adams, Macmillan.) Regular practice and instruction in composition.
1. (b) English Composition. A course of lectures, chiefly synthetical, on the principles of English composition, with special reference to the use of words and the construction of sentences and paragraphs. Regular essays are required of all students. Text-book: Nichol's Manual (or an equivalent.)
1. (c) History. The Main Epochs of European History, G.B. Adams (Macmillan.)
CLASSICS
1. Greek. Authors: Tales from Herodotus (Farnell, Macmillan), chs. VII to XVI inclusive; Greek Reader, Vol. I (E.C. Marchant, Clarendon Press), pp. 8-41; Scenes from Euripedes' Medea (Sidgwick, Rivingtons.) Composition: North and Hillard's Greek Prose Composition (Rivingtons.) Translation at Sight: Greek Unseens in Prose and Verse, Junior Section (Liddell, Blackie.) Greek History: 560 to 479 B.C., as in Cox's Greeks and Persians (Longmans' Epoch Series.)
1. Latin. Authors: Cicero, de Amicitia (Masse, Bell); Livy XXI, chs. 39-59, "Hannibal's First Campaign in Italy" (Trayes, Bell); Virgil, Aeneid VII (Sidgwick, Pitt Press.) Composition: North and Hillard's Latin Prose Composition (Rivingtons.) Translation at Sight: Rivington's Class Books of Latin Unseens (Smith), Book III. Roman History: 264 to 146 B.C., as in Shuckburgh, History of Rome (Macmillan), chs. XVII to XXXII.
FRENCH
1. Borel, Grammaire Française (Holt and Co.); Sandeau, Mlle. de la Seigliere (Holt); Super, Histoire de France (Holt.)
2. Daudet, Contes (Holt); Lamartine, Scenes de la Revolution Francaise (Heath and Co.); Pailleron, Le monde ou l'on s'ennuie (Jenkins); German and French Poems (Holt and Co.)
MATHEMATICS
1. Plane and Solid Geometry. The equivalent of Books IV, VI and XI of Euclid, with supplementary matter. (Hall and Stevens' Euclid.)
Algebra. Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra (omitting Chs. 40-43 inclusive), or the same subject matter in similar text books.
Trigonometry. Hall and Knight's Elementary Trigonometry; the elements of Spherical Trigonometry. Nature and use of logarithms.
PHYSICS
1. Physics. The most important principles treated with reference to their historical development and mutual relations, with concrete illustration by means of apparatus in the laboratory (Carhart and Chute.)
EQUIPMENT
Library. There is an excellent scientific library, and a good general library of reference, which is gradually increasing.
Commercial Room. This room contains typewriters of various kinds, and the general requisites of a business office.
The Science Department is well equipped with apparatus and working material. The lecture-room is supplied with a stereopticon for demonstration purposes, and the apparatus needed to illustrate the required work in Chemistry and Physics of the matriculation and first university years. There is, besides, a Chemical Laboratory fitted with individual stands for students who there perform their work in an experimental way. The laboratory will accommodate twenty-four students at one time.
[Student Organizations included the "Camosun", the Alumni Association, the Athletic Association made up of hockey, lawn-tennis, football, baseball and basketball clubs, a Cadet Corps and a Dramatic Society. A listing of available prizes and awards and an Honours List concludes the calendar]
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