FOR COMMON SCHOOLS. The attention of teachers and school officers is invited to the following 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. 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 introduction, etc., will receive prompt attention. Address W.J. BUTTON, or THOS. CHARLES, 117 & 119 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Agents for HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers. YOUNG MEN GO TO THE Milwauku Kiss SPENCERIAN COLLEGE, where you can prepare yourselves for business pursuits in the best manner, at the least expense, and in the shortest time. Students received at any time. Write for circulars. Address R. C. SPENCER, Milwaukee, Wis. VACATION PARTY TO EUROPE July & Aug., "79 Third Year. Send for "Two Months in Europe," and circular of Summer's tour. Unusual advantages at very reasonable rates. O. R. BURCHARD, State Normal School, Fredonia, N. Y. SOMETHING NEW. Bond's Staff-Ruled Writing Books. These Books are endorsed by Normal School Professors, Institute Conductors, and Superintendents of Schools in Four Western States. Address J. D. BOND, Sup't Penmanship, St. Paul Public Schools. Box 704. PLAYS AND DIALOGUES For Schools and Amateurs, of suitable lengths, 79 Metropolitan Block, Chicago, Ill. 500 VOLS. IN ONE. William Cullen Bryant's FAMILY LIBRARY OF POETRY. ENLARGED, REVISED AND IMPROVED. Has the New Bryant Biography, all the best and latest of Bryant's own Poems. New Steel Portrait. New Illustrations, New Bindings, etc. One large Volume. Sold only by Subscription. His Greatest Work, outselling all others combined. Intelligent men and women of good address wanted to sell it. Large pay to the right persons. Address WESTON HULBERT. Chicago, Ill. Book Keeping Penmanship, WOODLANDS BEST! Day School Singing Book. for it. $5 pr.ds. Jansen, McClurg Chicago. CHOES BUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY. If you wish to open a thorough Commercial, Department in your school (not simply a primary course, usually taught in schools, but a By S. W. Straub. complete business course, with practice), you can find a teacher qualified in Book Keeping, Plain and Ornamental Penmanship, and Pit man's system of Short-Hand, who has had twenty years' experience as a teacher in the common schools of Wisconsin. Will be at liberty the first of March. Address C. S. MARSH, Union Center, Wis. 1879. Established in 1837. Superior Bells of Copper and Tin, mounted with the best Rotary Hangings, for Churches, Schools, Farms, Factories, Court-houses, Fire Alarms, Tower Clocks, etc. Fully Warranted Illustrated Catalogue sent Free. VANDUZEN & TIFT, 10% E. 2d St., Cincinnati. WISCONSIN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.---VOL. IX. TERMS, $100-IN ADVANCE. If Bill is sent, $1.10; after 6 months, $1.25; at end of year, $1.50. The JOURNAL OF EDUCATION will continue to be issued by the present editors and publishers, as heretofore. 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 JOURNAL, the publishers will still endeavor to make it useful to the teachers and the educational interests of the State. Remittances and Communications should be addressed to WHITFORD & PRADT, Madison, Wis. Examination for admission day previous. At River Falls, same day. TERMS OF ADMISSION. The Board of Regents of Normal Schools has adopted the following regula tions 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 duplicate 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: I,— -, 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 such 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 deserved. THE TERMS OF BOARD AT EACH LOCALITY ARE MODERATE. Information as to board and other matters may be obtained by addressing the Presidents of the respective schools, as follows: Pres't D. MCGREGOR, at Platteville; Pres't GEORGE S. ALBEE, at Oshkesh; Pres't J. W. STEARNS, at Whitewater; HEALTH PRIMERS. No. 1. Exercise and Training. "2. Alcohol-Its Use and Abuse. "3. The House and Its Surroundings. "4. Premature Death. Its Promotion and Prevention. To be followed by other numbers on kindred subjects. Any of the above will be sent post paid on receipt of 40 cents. Address D. APPLETON & CO., No. 61, Washington St., Chicago. JUST PUBLISHED: A VALUABLE WORK FOR TEACHERS. Principles and Practice of Teaching. By JAMES JOHONNOT. "In this book the author has endeavored to examine education from the standpoint of modern thought, and to contribute something to the solution of the problems that are forcing themselves upon the attention of educators."— Extract from Preface. : The scope and character of the work will be indicated by its contents, as follows: I. What is Education? II. The Mental Powers: their Order of Development, and the Methods most conducive to Normal Growth. III. Objective Teaching its Methods, Aims, and Principles. IV. Subjective teaching: its Aims, and Place in the Course of Instruction. V. Object-Lessons: their Value and Limitations. VI. Relative Value of the Different Studies in a Course of Instruction. VII. Pestalozzi, and his Contributions to Educational Science. VIII. Froebel and the Kindergarten. IX. Agassiz: and Science in its Relation to Teaching. X. Contrasted Systems of Education. XI. Physical Culture. XII. Esthetic Culture. XIII. Moral Culture. XIV. A Course of Study. XV. Country Schools. Price, $1.50, post-pa!d. Reduction to Clubs, as follows: Three copies, $4.00; six copies, $7.50; twelve copies, $12.00. Sent by express to one address. D. APPLETON & CO., 61 Washington St., Chicago. |