The St. Louis report must, on the whole, be regarded as belonging to the same class, although it has no index. This deficiency is in part supplied by a very full table of contents, as the following extract,' relating only to the president's report, shows: Report of the president : Bonded debt or sinking fund. Permanent fund. School capital fund. General revenue fund. Building fund. Financial management. Examination of books and accounts. Janitors' salaries. Teachers' salaries. Report of the president: Officers' salaries. New legislation. Term of office of officials. Kindergartens. Public school library. It is important that these city reports should be largely circulated among the inhabitants. On this point I speak from observation, having witnessed the beneficial results of this practice. To circulate generally among the inhabitants documents so voluminous as the modern reports above referred to, the expense would, perhaps, be thought too considerable. The objects in view, however, might be substar ially accomplished without excessive expenditure by circulating for th reading of the general public those parts of the document especially ad ipted tc the purpose, such as the reports of the president and the sup intend ent. 194 1 Report of 1881, Mr. Frederick N. Judson, president. APPENDIXES. APPENDIX A. See page 37. POLYTECHNIC ASSOCIATION (FRANCE). [Founded in 1830 by the alumni of the Polytechnic School, its public utility being recognized by decree of June 30, 1869.] 1878-1879. Medal of merit at the Universal Exposition at Vienna, 1873; Silver medal, Brussels Exposition, 1877; Gold medal at the Universal Exposition at Paris, 1878. GRATUITOUS AND PUBLIC COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. [Taught gratuitously, for workingmen.] · SECTION OF THE HOTEL-DE-VILLE. [Municipal Administration Building, fourth arrondissement (rue de Rivoli and Place Baudoyer), entrance in the court, staircase B, large hall, third story.] M. JEAN WAGNER, delegate of the section. Opening of the courses on Monday, November 11, 1878. French. (First and second years.) Sunday at 3p. m. M. J.-R. SAINT MARTIN, professor. Grammar and literature. M. L. HENRY, professor. M. L. HENRY, professor. Applied mathematics. Wednesday at 8 p. m. M. L. HENRY, professor. M. G. LEDRU DE BIANZAT, Organic chemistry. Saturday at 8 p. m. M. ÉM. GAUDIN, professor. Hygiene. Thursday at 9 p. m. Dr. PICQUÉ, professor. The course will be announced later. Geography. M. LACASSE, professor. Elements of public law. Tuesday at 8 p. m. M. ALBERT MEURGÉ, professor. MM. LAHAYE and FLEURY, professors. 195 Popular astronomy. Monday at 9 p. m. M. FOUQUET, professor. Accounts (commercial, industrial, and financial; book-keeping in the first and second years). Saturday at 9 p. m. M. CARON, professor. Penal law. Friday at 8 p. m. M. JULIEN BRÉGAULT, professor. History of great inventions. (This course will begin about the middle of January.) M. BELMONT, professor. Second, higher Lithography and lithographic drawing. M. BRAULT, professor. The railroad: its history and working. Friday at 7 p. m. M. L. BACLÉ, professor. English. (First and second years.) Sunday at 2 p. m. M. C.-W.-R. NEDDEN, professor. German. (First year.) Thursday at 8 p. m. At 8 p. m.-Elements At 9 p. m.- - Commercial M. WAGNER, professor. Sunday at 1 p. m. M. WAGNER, professor. The distribution of honorable mentions and medals for the year 1877-78 will take place on the day of the opening of the course, The formal opening will take place at the Public Hall of the Administration Building November 11. There will be a report and distribution of medals and rewards. Address by M. H. DE LA POMMERAYE. The courses of the Polytechnic Association are designed for adults; except by special permission of the professors, pupils under 16 years of age will not be admitted. Ladies are admitted to all the courses. President of the association: DUMAS, Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, Member of the French Academy. Mayor of the fourth arrondissement: For further particulars: Secretary General, J. Gastelier.1 DELPIRE. 1 An exact copy of the program, of which the above is a translation, is printed on large sheets and conspicuously posted in various parts of the district. 196 All recitations are conducted with special reference to the modes of teaching the branch of study under consideration. Teaching exercises in all studies are required in the fourth and junior classes to be given to the class. The teaching exercises indicated in the middle and senior classes are before the whole school. II. BOSTON NORMAL SCHOOL. COURSE OF STUDY. 1. Mental and moral science and logic. 2. Principles of education, school economy; and methods of instruction. 3. Physiology and hygiene. 4. Natural science. 5. Study of language. 6. Elementary studies. 7. Vocal music, drawing, and blackboard illustration. 8. Observation and practice in the training school. 9. Observation and practice in the other public schools. PROGRAM OF THE OBSERVATION AND PRACTICE IN THE TRAINING AND OTHER BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The practical work in connection with the school room that is done by the pupils of the Boston Normal School may be arranged under the following heads: I. OBSERVING AND REPORTING. The normal pupils, accompanied by one of their teachers, visit a class in the training school daily for about a week, witness the regular work of the room twenty or thirty minutes, return and report orally to the teacher accompanying them. This report is merely an orderly statement of what is done and said in the room, the teacher making the statement complete and calling attention to such excellences as she deems best. These visits are made at the same hour on successive days, so that the same lesson is seen each day during the week. II. TEACHING FOR CRITICISM. The normal pupils teach classes from the training school, following the regular program of the room from which the children come. A class of about twelve children is taught twenty or thirty minutes daily for about a week, under the direction of one of the normal teachers, the same subject being taught to the same pupils at the same hour. After the teaching, the rest of the hour is devoted to criticisms of the lesson by the normal pupils and their teacher. Special preparation for these lessons is made at another hour. III. OBSERVING WORK IN THE SCHOOLS. The normal pupils visit the public schools of the city for one day, one pupil only going to a room. Each pupil reports in writing the forenoon program of the school in which she observes and one lesson of the work of the afternoon. The report of the lesson shows (1) the object of the lesson and (2) the steps by which this object was attained. The facts for the reports are to be gathered from observation. IV. TEACHING IN THE TRAINING SCHOOL. The normal pupils, in sections, accompanied by their teachers, visit the training school. One pupil of each section teaches fifteen or twenty minutes, while the others observe. They then return to the normal school, and the rest of the hour is spent in criticising the lesson and in making suggestions in regard to future lessons. This work usually continues about one week, sometimes two. 1 |