CG WHITEWATER, Spring Term opens WEDNESDAY, Jan. 29. RIVER FALLS, MONDAY, March 31. OSHKOSH, WEDNESDAY, April 2. PLATTEVILLE, TUESDAY, April 8. Examination for admission day previous. At River Falls, same day. TERMS OF ADMISSION. a The Board of Regents of Normal Schools has adopted the following regulations for the admission of students to any State Normal School: 1. Each assembly district in the state shall be entitled to eight representatives in the Normal Schools, and in case vacancies exist in the representation to which any assembly district is entitled, such vacancies may be filled by the president and secretary of the Board of Regents. 2. Candidates for admission shall be nominated by the county superintendent of the county (or if the county superintendent has not jurisdiction, then the nomination shall be made by the city superintendent of the city) in which such candidates may reside, and they shall be at least sixteen years of age, of sound dily health and of good moral character. Each person so nominated shall re. ceive a certificate setting forth his name, age, health and character, and a dupli. cate of such certificate shall be immediately sent by mail, by the superintendent, to the secretary of the board. 3. Upon presentation of such certificate to the president of a State Normal School, the candidate shall be examined, under the direction of said president, in the branches required by law for a third grade certificate, except history and theory and practice of teaching, and if found qualified to enter the Normal School in respect to learning, he may be admitted, after furnishing such evi. dence as the president may require of good health and moral character, and after subscribing to the following declaration: 1, do hereby declare that my purpose in entering this State Normal School is to fit myself for the profession of teaching, and that it is my intention to engage in teaching in the public schools of this state. 4. No person shall be entitled to a diploma, who has not been a member of the school in which euch diploma is granted, at least one year, nor who is less than nineteen years of age; but a certificate of attendance may be granted by the president of a Normal School to any person who shall have been a member of such school for one term, provided that in his judgment such certificate is de. served. THE TERMS OF BOARD AT EACH LOCALI CY ARE MODERATE. Information as to board and other matters may be obtained by addressing the Presidents of the respective schools, as fo 'lows: Pres’t D. MCGREGOR, at Platteville; Pres't J. W. STEARNS, at Whitewater; Pres'ı GEORGE S. ALBEE, at Oshke h; Pres't W. D. PARKER, at River ?alls. a FOR COMMON SCHOOLS. The attention of teachers and school officers is invited to the fol. lowing Special list of Popular Text-Books selected from Harper's Educational Series. The rapid introduction of Harper's School Books throughout the country is satisfactory evidence that they meet the wants of the people. 60 To School $0.51 .26 .51 . 13 .23 .32 .48 .64 .77 (G Prices for Harper's Introductory Geography. .13 12 19 27 42 56 69 12 22 28 27 50 68 52 75 38 38 9 6 .26 .32 .31 .60 .777 .60 .85 .43 .43 .10 ..07 On supplies for introduction ten per cent. is allowed for handling and freight charges pre-paid. Descriptive Catalogue of School and College Text-Books mailed free on application. Copies for examination with view to introduction sent to teachers and school officers on receipt of introduction price. All correspondence regarding Books for examination, terms of intro- W.J. BUTTON, or THOS. CHARLES, . If you wish to open a thorough Commercial Day School Singing Book. Department in your school (not simply a pri- mary course, usnally taught in schools, but a By S. W. 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Thanking our subscribers for their patronage; our contributors for their interest and their articles, and the county superintend. ents, end many others, for their efforts in extending the circulation of the JOUR- NAL, the publishers will still endeavor to make it useful to the teachers and the educational interests of the State. [The reader should by all means go back to the first article, in the March number, and read the two in connection. The series, when completed, will furnish an outline and guide for attempting something in a most delightful summer study. Not only may an intelligent teacher interest and instruct pupils, until the school closes for summer, but put some of them in the way of continuing their collections through the summer. We are glad to learn from the writer of the articles that several teachers have already written 'o him about them. – Eds.) The next step in the classification begun is to separate into two groups all true insects that have been collected. This separation is to be effected by an examination of the mouth-parts. The teacher will call attention to the fact that some insects are provided with two pairs of jaws, moving laterally, the outside pair being commonly called mandibles; while other insects procure their sustenance by means of tubes or proboscides. Let the pupils then place in one group all the hexapodous or true insects which are furnished with jaws or mandibles, and this group may be called the mandibulata. Let them arrange in another group all the true insects not so provided, each having, instead, some sort of sucking tube. The latter group may be named haustellata. It is perhaps a work of supererogation to suggest that at this as well as at every other stage of the pupil's progress, special etymological work is always in order. It is not necessary thereto that either the pupil or the teacher should be specially proficient in the dead languages. A quarto dictionary will always furnish means of information, either by directly discussing the particular word to be developed, or indirectly by discussing words allied to it by a common origin. The instructor will here need spe |
