General Offices 211 & 213 Wabash Ave., Chicago. LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD OF General School Merchandise. The Best School Desks ever made are here shown. If you want good schools, give the teachers APPARATUS TO WORK WITH. Maps, Globes and Charts are Indispensable to a good school. 66 Six months school with these is better than nine months without them." Isn't it true? If so, isn't it economy to get them? Our goods are the best, our prices reasonable. We are ready to sell, are you ready to buy? Circulars free on application. Write to us. School Room Desks for Sale. YOUNG MEN OFFICE REGENTS OF UNIVERSTY OF Wis. MADISON, May 10, 1879. We have on hard 40 Double Seat Folding Lid Desks, with Ink Wells, also, Rear Seats for same, accomodating 88 scholars. These Seats were purchased for "Ladies' Hall" recitation room, have had but little use, and would fit up some district school-room very comfortably. Having no further uso for them, they will be sold on reasonable teams for casb. Address, JOHN S. DEAN, Secretary. GO TO THE Milwauku Niss 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. BUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY. NEW ENGLAND MUSICAL BUREAU. Established in 1837. Superior Bells of Copper and Tin, mounted Alarms, Tower Clocks, etc. Fully Warranted Teachers in Music and Elocution supplied to educational institutions. Principals will find it to their advantage to make early application. Address E TOURJEE, Music Hall, Boston. 1879. WISCONSIN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.--VOL. IX. 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 superintendents, 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. ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH ANALYSIS, Illustrated by a New System of Diagrams. By Stephen H. Carpenter, Prof. of English in the University of Wisconsin. This book, the result of the author's experience in the class room, is designed to assist students, by a System of Diagrams, in obtaining the outline structure of sentences, which a thorough knowledge of English grammar demands, and thus fix in the eye and mind the principles of analysis, a correct knowledge of which, as a rule, is wanting among students. Price, in boards, 25 cents. Mailed on receipt of price. In preparation, a Treatise on Orthoepy. W. J. PARK & Co., Publishers, Madison, Wis. FOODLANDSend 500. LATEST! forit. $5 pr.dz. Jansen, McClurg Day School Singing BookCHOES By S. W. Straub. 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 Oshkosh; Pres't J. W. STEARNS, at Whitewater; |