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of whatever kind, candidates bring, especially from schools of high reputation and from teachers of good judgment and fearless expression, the greater confidence they may have in guarding themselves against the contingencies of an examination and of satisfying the examiners with their fitness.

Reasonable allowance in equivalents will be made in case a candidate, for satisfactory reasons, has not taken a study named for examination.

TIMES OF EXAMINATION.

The first examination in 1896 will be held on Thursday and Friday, June 25 and 26, at each of the normal schools.

The second examination in 1896 will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8 and 9, at each of the normal schools. Candidates are advised to present themselves, so far as practicable, at the first examination.

TIMES OF ADMISSION.

New classes will be admitted only at the beginning of the fall term, and, as the studies of the course are arranged progressively from that time, it is important that students shall present themselves then for duty. In individual cases and for strong reasons exceptions to this requirement are permissible, but only after due examination, and upon the understanding that the admission shall be at a time convenient to the school and to such classes only as the candidate is qualified to join.

GENERAL TWO YEARS' COURSE OF STUDY.

This course is designed primarily for those who aim to teach in public schools below the high school grade. It comprises substantially the following subjects:

1. Psychology, history of education, principles of education, methods of instruction and discipline, school organization and the school laws of Massachusetts.

2. Methods of teaching the following subjects:

(a) English, reading, language, rhetoric, composition, literature and history.

(b) Mathematics, arithmetic, bookkeeping, elementary algebra and geometry.

(c) Science, -elementary physics and chemistry, geography, physiology and hygiene, and the study of minerals, plants and animals.

(d) Drawing, vocal music, physical culture and manual training. 3. Observation and practice in the training school and observation in other public schools.

Graduates of colleges and universities, and of high schools of a high grade and standing, who give evidence of maturity, good scholarship and of aptness to teach, may, with the consent of the principal of the school and of the Board of Visitors, select from the above curriculum of study a course which may be completed in one year, and when such course is successfully completed they shall receive a certificate for the same.

FOUR YEARS' COURSE.

The Framingham, Westfield, Salem and Bridgewater schools have also a regular course of four years, which includes the studies of the two years' course and the following subjects:

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1. Mathematics, -algebra, geometry, trigonometry and surveying. 2. Science, physics, chemistry, botany, geology, astronomy, mineralogy and zoology.

3. Language, English language and literature, Latin and French; German and Greek, as the principal and Board of Visitors of each school shall decide; drawing and vocal music.

4. History, general history.

At Framingham and Salem this course for the first two years is the same as the regular two years' course. At Bridgewater and Westfield the order is different, the study of the languages beginning with the first year of the course.

ADVANCED COURSE OF TWO YEARS.

The requirement for admission to this course is graduation from college or its equivalent. Promising graduates from the general two years' course are also permitted to take it. It is designed primarily for those who aim to teach in public schools above the grammar school grades. It may be taken in any of the existing normal schools, but the question of providing for it in the four new normal schools recently authorized has not yet been considered.

The course comprises substantially the following subjects:

1. Psychology, the history of education, the science and the art of teaching, school organization, school discipline and the school laws of Massachusetts.

2.

Methods of teaching the following subjects :

(a) Language and literature, - English, French, German, Latin and Greek.

(b) Mathematics, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and surveying.

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(c) Science, chemistry, physics, astronomy, physical geography, geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology, physiology and hygiene, and the preparation of specimens and apparatus.

(d) History, economics and philosophy.

(e) Drawing, vocal music, physical culture and manual training. Persons of exceptional maturity, of high standing in college, and who give evidence of superior scholarship and special aptness to teach, may, with the approval of the principal of the school and of the Board of Visitors, select from the above curriculum of study a course which may be completed in one year, and when such course is successfully completed they shall receive a certificate for the same.

THE NORMAL ART SCHOOL.

There are courses of three and four years in this school. They are designed primarily for persons who aim to teach drawing in the public schools. For information about the requirements for admission, details of the courses of study and other matters, apply to the principal of the school, corner of Newbury and Exeter streets, Boston.

OTHER INFORMATION.

The normal schools at Bridgewater, Westfield and Framingham are provided with dormitories where students may receive board at cost. The normal school at Worcester has a dormitory, but does not furnish board.

With the exception of the Framingham and Salem schools, which are for young women only, the privileges of each normal school are offered to young men and women alike.

Tuition is free to all who declare their intention to teach in the public schools of Massachusetts. For others the tuition is thirty dollars a year, except in the Normal Art School, where it is fifty

dollars a year.

Text-books and supplies are free as in the public schools.

State aid to a limited extent may be granted to deserving persons after they have been in attendance for at least one term, provided they do not live in towns where the normal schools are situated.

Buildings for the new normal schools at Fitchburg, Lowell, North Adams and Barnstable (Hyannis) are in process of erection at the date of this circular. Arrangements have been made for opening one of these schools, the Fitchburg normal, in temporary quarters, in September, 1895.

For catalogues, specimen examination questions for admission, blanks for the various certificates required, and such additional information as may be sought, apply directly to the principals of the several schools at Bridgewater, Westfield, Framingham, Salem, Worcester and Fitchburg.

FRANK A. HILL,

Secretary.

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WHAT THE NORMAL SCHOOL AIMS TO

DO FOR ITS PUPILS.

A CIRCULAR LETTER TO ONE WHO WISHES TO
BECOME A TEACHER.

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