Calendar: 1889-1890 Page 811

SCHEME FOR JUNIOR COMMERCIAL EDUCATION 167 Second Year for boys from 11-13 years old English and Writing -Six hours per week Writing-using as copies bills letters circulars &c both in English and in French or German Spelling Reading and Recitation Exercises upon Grammar Etymology Simple Composition and Religious Instruction Modern Foreign Languages French or German whichever was commenced in pre- ceding year -Five hours per week Continuation of exercises of preceding year German or French to be commenced this year -Five hours per week Words ammai learned by heart istory -Two hours per week Continuation of History of England Geography -Two hours per week General Geography of Europe Configuration &c prin- cipal seas mountains rivers climates &c European States their chief characteristics physical and political geography principal towns population military forces &c Elementary Economic Geography with special reference to agriculture mines industries and chief modes of com- munication Mathematics -Six hours per week Arithmetic Long Tots Cross Tots Decimal Calcula- tion Square Root Proportion Practice Simple Interest Mental Arithmetic and Rapid Calculation Simple Construe- tive Geometry Elementary Science Physics or Natural History or both Two hours per week Physics -Experimental illustrations simply treated of different conditions and properties of Matter in the solid Optional or alternative