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EXPENSES.

Those who pledge themselves to teacli in the public schools
of the State have nothing to pay for tuition or books. A
limited number of students will be received without such a
pledge, on paying $25 a session, and furnishing their own
books Boarding may be had in the city at from four to five
dollars a week.

SESSIONS, VACATIONS, &C.

The Fall session will commence on Monday, September 17,
and end on the 20th of December. The Winter session will
commence Monday, January 7th, and end on the 5th of April.
There will be a Summer session (of the Preparatory Class
only) commencing April 8th, and ending June 28th.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
ACADEMIC.

Although the main object of the Normal School is "not to
educate teachers in studies now required by law, but to re-
ceive such as are found competent in these studies, and to
train them in the best methods of teaching and conducting
public schools;" yet it has been considered necessary under
present circumstances to devote a considerable portion of time
to Academic instruction. In the Preparatory and the Junior
class a rapid review is made of elementary studies. Spelling,
reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, Grammar, history;
not only for the purpose of refreshing the memory of the stu-
dents, but also to afford an opportunity of illustrating, prac-
tically and in detail, some of the best methods of presenting
these subjects to the minds of children.

The Academic studies of the Senior class, for the present
year, will be algebra, geometry, rhetoric, English literature
and the Natural Sciences.

In all the classes special attention is given to drawing,
vocal music, and calisthenics, with the view of enabling
teachers to introduce these subjects into Primary and Gram-
mar schools.

PROFESSIONAL.

While the outline of the course of instruction corresponds,
at least in part, with that of our best High schools, the pur-
pose and aim of the High and the Normal school are essen-
tially different. In the High school, the aim of the teacher
is to communicate knowledge; in the Normal school, it is to
cultivate the power of communicating knowledge. In the
High school, the object of the student is to learn, so as to