Calendar: 1884-1885 Page 354

343 EVENING CLASSES 16 ARITHMETIC Two Classes Days and Hours of Attendance-Monday and Thursday from to$ or from 09 or both hours on both nights by additional payment The instruction in Arithmetic comprises First Principles Proportion Practice Fractions Decimals Involution Evolu- tion Interest Stocks Partnership Loss and Gain and Ex- changes The Arbitration of Exchanges is treated bv the CD ψ Chain Rule Leases Annuities Reversions and other subjects connected with Compound Interest are treated by Logarithms In general the attention of each Student is directed first of all to that part of Arithmetic in which he feels his knowledge to be deficient In Book-keeping every Student is taught to journal post and balance accounts to make trial balances and to close set of Books For this purpose the supposed trans- actions of mercantile bouse extending over period of three months are given him to copy and make the necessarv calculations preparatory to the entry of them in proper manner in the different Books 17 OFFICIAL WRITING Bays and IJ our of Attendance-Monday and Thursday from to This term applies to the kind of writing which the Govern- mcnt requires to be attained by all who seek appointments in the Civil Service and to that best adapted for Commercial Pursuits The instruction given in this Department is for the purpose of acquiring the style considered essential viz 00d bold ible band ד divested of any superfluous de The attainment of this requires close and careful practice