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them have national as well as state reputations, and most of them are too well known to need any words of commendation here.

The Departments.-The nineteen different departments represent every phase of public school and professional work, and have been organized with a view to make the instruction in each as efficient as possible, and at the same time to articulate all so as to maintain the unity of aim and movement. You are referred to the course of study for details as to branches taught. Each department is well provided with apparatus for illustration and for the personal use of students. Ten rooms are set apart for the exclusive use of the departments of natural science. The laboratories and museums provided are great features of the School. The departments of drawing and manual training occupy three large rooms, liberally fitted up with modern appliances. More room will be provided for these classes in the near future. The department of English occupies four rooms, exclusive of the handsome suite of four rooms devoted to the library. The library contains about 14,000 volumes, selected with great care by a standing committee who make the selection of books a special study. Title and author card catalogues are already complete, and a force has been at work for some time on a similar catalogue of subject-matter. The pedagogical room contains one of the finest pedagogical libraries in the West. The attention of advanced students in pedagogy is called to the superior facilities here offered. The child-study section is particularly rich in standard publications on the various phases of that subject. The department of vocal and instrumental musie occupies eight rooms on the fourth floor, and is amply equipped with pianos, organs, claviers, etc. There are some fourteen pianos in the building, including those belonging to the literary societies. The mathematical department occupies

four rooms, and is supplied with a full line of standard weights and measures, surveying instruments, etc. Lack of space forbids noting the other departments, but every teacher will be interested in the

Model Practice School, long a prominent feature of this institution. It is the professional laboratory of a normal school, and affords not only a fine opportunity for testing methods and devices, but for applying principles and perfecting candidates for graduation in the art of teaching. This department occupies eleven rooms, and is under the immediate personal supervision of the director in training and five able assistants. It is organized with classes from the kindergarten through the eighth grade, and every effort is made to make it a model school. Only a limited number of children can be received into this model school, and, though a fee is charged, the applications for admittance usually exceed the accommodations, showing the advantages to pupils as well as to pupil-teachers. All candidates for graduation in the professional courses spend one hour per day for a year here in observing or in practice teaching. The value of this work in completing the preparation for teaching can hardly be overestimated.

The Courses of Study.-The following outline of the courses of study will be easily understood; subjects marked with a † are ten weeks in length; the others twenty weeks: FIRST YEAR:

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FIRST TERM.-Arithmetic, Elocution, Political Geography, Penmanship, Grammar, Methods of Study and Elementary Psychology*†, Declamation (two per term).

SECOND TERM.-Algebra, Bookkeeping+, Physical Geography, U. S. History †, Elements of Rhetoric, Physics, Declamation (two per term). SECOND YEAR:

THIRD TERM.-Algebra, Botany, Drawing, General History, Essay (two 1 er term).

FOURTH TERM.-Geometry, Drawing †, Musict, Chemistry, English Literature, Essay (two per term).

*This subject may be substituted for any third-year half-term subject.

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FIFTH TERM.-Trigonometry +, Zoology, Music, Chemistry, Vergil, Oratory, Theme assigned (one per term).

SIXTH TERM.**- Geology, English Literature, Literary Criticism, Political Economy +, Vergil, Astronomy †, Surveying †, Theme assigned (one per term).

Music elective with Trigonometry and Drawing, or one of the sciences of the term. Oratory elective with Music or the others named in this paragraph. Literary Criticism is elective with English Literature. FOURTH YEAR:

SEVENTH TERM.- Methods of Teachingt, Mental Science, Teaching and Criticism, Physiology and Hygiene, School Economy and Management, Oration (one per term).

EIGHTH TERM.-History of Education, Philosophy of Education, Child Study, School Law+, Teaching and Criticism, Kindergarten and Primary Methods †, Civil Law, Oration (one per term). Child Study is optional with School Law.

*This subject may be substituted for any third-year half-term subject. **Any ten weeks' subject in this term may be omitted.

The Elementary Course consists of the first two and the fourth years' work of the English Course, with the privilege of substituting one year's work in Latin for general history and chemistry, and civil law as a substitute for child study or school law.

The Academic Course consists of the first two years' work in either course above outlined, physiology or psychology, and seven full-term subjects or their equivalents from the third year.

The diploma granted for the English, the Latin or the Elementary Course is a life certificate to teach in any of the public schools of Kansas, including those of first- and second-class cities.

A regular course in kindergarten and primary methods, twenty weeks in length, and a full two years' course in kindergarten proper, are offered. This kindergarten was one of the first organized in the West, and over a thousand primary teachers have found its work of incalculable value to them. A handsome suite of rooms is equipped with every needed convenience for this work.

Courses in clay modeling, wood carving and wood working are organized every ten weeks.

Full courses in German and French are also offered.

For further particulars on all these points see the catalogue, which will be sent on application. Conditions of Admission.-The teachers holding firstgrade certificates are admitted to the Normal Department, second term (first-year) classes, without examination. They are ranked, however, as first-term students until final records are made upon first-term subjects by examination. Teachers holding second-grade certificates are admitted to first-term classes, Normal Department, without examination.

Graduates holding diplomas from certain classes of high schools are also admitted without examination. See catalogue for approved list. Write also concerning admittance from your own high school, if information concerning it be desired.

Students who present certificates of honorable dismissal from the State University or the State Agricultural College will, without examination, be credited with such class records as are eighty per cent. or above.

Graduates in the arts course or in corresponding courses of first-class colleges will be admitted to the last year, or to the senior class, on entering the School, the Faculty designating the subjects to be pursued in each case.

Graduates of high schools and academies fitting students for admission to the freshman class, State University, or of high schools and academies of corresponding grade, will be given such credits as will admit them to the second-year class on entering the School, the Faculty designating the subjects to be pursued in each case. In both cases above mentioned, the course here will include a review of the common branches.

Other candidates for admission are required to make a grade of eighty per cent. on examination in the common branchesarithmetic, reading, geography, grammar, United States history, writing, and spelling-and must present a certificate of good moral character from the county superintendent, or from some responsible person to whom the candidate is well known.

Teachers holding first- or second-grade certificates with ninety per cent. on history and geography will be admitted to five weeks' special classes in each subject in reviews and methods of teaching. Teachers holding first-grade county

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certificates or their equivalent, on approval of the head of the department of mathematics or of English, and students holding diplomas from bachelor's course in approved universities and colleges, will be admitted to the five weeks' classes in methods in subjects above named in the last year of the course, each class to be taught by the head of the department to which the subject belongs.

In addition to the foregoing requirements for admission to the Normal Department, candidates must subscribe to the following declaration and pledge:

"I hereby declare that my purpose in entering the State Normal School is to fit myself to teach in the schools of Kansas, and I solemnly agree, after leaving the same, to report to the President of the Faculty semiannually, for three years, my location and occupation."

Those, however, who prefer to pay the fee (five dollars per term of twenty weeks) charged academic and special students, are excused from subscribing to the above. Students who prefer to pursue subjects in the course of study irregularly-that is, not in the order prescribed-are, on the payment of the fee just named, permitted to enroll as special students.

Teachers holding second-grade certificates will be admitted to subjects in the course which may be required for the firstgrade certificate, if they desire, without being classified as irregular.

Civil law, methods, and school management may be taken by students anticipating examinations for certificates in which they are required without being classed as irregular.

Mileage. All students meeting the regular requirements for admission to the Normal Department may have necessary railroad fare in excess of three dollars refunded by the President of the Faculty, on presentation of receipts of agents from whom tickets are purchased.

Railroad fare is counted for one round trip only per year, and the rule applies only to students in attendance for the entire year.

Students in attendance for one full term of twenty weeks are entitled to have one-half of said extra fare refunded. Payment is made at the end of each term.

Mileage is paid only to students living more than 100 miles from Emporia and within the limits of the state of Kansas. Many students take advantage of these liberal provisions.

Expenses. Students find little difficulty in securing pleasant accommodations within easy reach of the building. Every effort is made to reduce expenses to the minimum. Many students are paying as low as $2.35 and $2.75 for board in private families, while a very few pay $3 to $3.25 per week. Clubs are organized during the year, which report a reduction of about one-third from above rates. Those who board themselves reduce the cost about one-half. A careful comparison with the cost of living at other schools in the state shows that students demanding the same kind of accommodations live with as little expense here as at any of them.

Good unfurnished rooms, accommodating from two to four students, rent for from two to four dollars per month. Furnished rooms rent for from four to six dollars per month.

There are several good second-hand stores in the city, and students can buy and sell at a loss about equal to rent of furniture and cooking utensils. The probable cost for a term of twenty weeks is about as follows:

Students not regularly in Normal Department will add $5 for incidental fee.

The above estimates cover necessary expenses, and have been fully verified by reports of pupils attending the School during past years. Of those who were self-boarding, the average yearly expense, all told, for board and washing was $66.40; those boarding in clubs, average expense, as above, $97.24; those boarding in private families, average expense, as above, $123.59. Of course the expense for one-half year, one term of twenty weeks, was one-half of these amounts.

Many students find good homes where they can work for part or all of their board, and it is always the pleasure of the Faculty to assist deserving and capable young men and women to secure such places.

Gymnastics and Athletics.-Gymnastics and calisthenics constitute a part of the regular course of instruction. These exercises occupy about fifteen minutes daily. Free gymnastics, bells, rings, wands and clubs are employed in the various classes.

Classes in special work meet two afternoons per week; these classes are open to students whose physical condition warrants vigorous exercise. The members are required to wear the conventional gymnasium suit.

Physical training is in charge of an expert teacher, who gives her entire time to it. Two large rooms are devoted to these exercises. The new gymnasium building will be ready for occupation in the near future.

Every facility is offered for outdoor exercise, under the general supervision of the director in training and the special su

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pervision of members of the Faculty who may be personally interested. The work is recognized as elective with gymnastics and calisthenics, under certain limitations, particularly the military drill, which is systematically conducted during the entire year.

Literary Societies.-The regular work of the classroom is well supplemented by the general exercises in the literary societies. The Lyceum, Literati, Belles-lettres and Philomathian societies meet on Friday evenings in their large and tastefully furnished halls. The Alpha Senate and the Oratorical Association afford excellent facilities for improvement in extemporaneous debate and original oration. The Amasagacian Society, composed of model school and first-term pupils, holds its meetings on Friday afternoons.

Lectures. In addition to lectures by members of the Faculty at stated intervals, a full course of first-class entertainments is engaged with the opening of each year. Students get the advantage of very low rates, and the proceeds go to a special fund and the literary societies of the School. Tickets for the regular course of six entertainments, reserved seats included, are one dollar each.

Prize Contests.-Prizes are offered by the Regents for the highest proficiency in declamation, essay, debate, and dramatic art; and by the Oratorical Association in oration.

Major Calvin Hood, of this city, kindly offers a cash prize of thirty dollars for the contestant ranking highest in the March debate, and ten dollars for the second in rank.

Department of Instrumental and Vocal Music.In addition to the vocal music provided in regular school courses, the department of music is fully organized, under the direction of Prof. C. A. Boyle. He is assisted by Mrs. Boyle, as associate professor, and two assistants in piano and stringed instruments. The department occupies eight rooms, and offers complete courses in instrumental and vocal music. For detailed information concerning courses of instruction, rental of instruments, advantages, fees, etc., address the director, at Emporia, Kan. Tuition in piano is free to regular students during the senior year in the course in piano.

The Euridice club, composed of young ladies, the Orpheus club, composed of young gentlemen, the orchestra and the brass band have for years been popular musical organizations of the institution, and are open to all students capable of entering them.

Shorthand and Typewriting.-This work is under the direction of the department of bookkeeping and penmanship. The Benn Pitman, or American, system of shorthand is taught. Students who have finished the work in shorthand, together with the typewriting, have secured excellent positions. The shorthand is of especial value to students in the advanced classes in the institution. The fee charged is very small.

Does it Pay Financially to Attend the State Normal School?Some years since inquiry concerning one single graduating class showed that, almost without exception, they secured good places at advanced salaries. Thirteen of them reported salaries per month for first year as follows: $75, $70, $65, $75, $90, $80, $65, $85, $89, $75, $75. Before attending here, the first nine received salaries as follows: $55, $50, $60, $40, $75, $60, $40, $60, $50. The salaries the remaining four had received before attending the State Normal School are unknown, though certainly no higher on the average. The average the thirteen received the first year was nearly $76; the average before coming here was less than $55. This gain of $21 per month the very first year is more than enough to pay the entire expense for one year here. Did you ever think of it that way?

Twelve members of the class of 1898 secured principalships or other good positions in high schools; twenty-five, superintendencies or principalships of city schools, and nearly all of the others more desirable positions than they ever held before. The members of other classes have located just as profitably. So much for the graduates. Many young men and women feel that they cannot afford to attend school more than one term or one year, and ask whether they may expect proportionate returns. Reports from undergraduates warrant us in saying yes. A term or a year here under such favorable influences enlarges ideas, develops strength, quickens the professional spirit, and sends one back to his work with a great storehouse of new helps and methods. If the time you are to spend is short, the greater the need for seeking a school where you can get the best possible results.

We are often asked whether we guarantee positions to our graduates. No reputable school does that. We are always

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ready to assist our students to secure positions, but cannot promise more. As a matter of fact, there has seldom been a year when the calls for first-class teachers did not exceed the supply. The graduates of the School are seldom idle long. The class of 1898 illustrates the way in which the classes usually locate. All of the graduates in the advanced courses secured desirable work, while but one or two of the entire 126 who wished work failed to get a satisfactory position.

Salary and position are not the best incentives to a more thorough preparation for teaching, but rather the increased power, the increased efficiency, the increased satisfaction that accompany service. If these be assured, the former are usually added unto them in due time.

Emporia is centrally located and easily reached from any part of the state. The mileage system before mentioned practically brings the School within 100 miles of every Kansas home. The city contains nearly 10,000 inhabitants, and is noted for its many beautiful homes and churches. Lying on the ridge between the Neosho and Cottonwood rivers, its natural drainage is perfect, and it is, consequently, one of the healthiest cities in the West. The moral and educational tone, as well as the business enterprise of its citizens, combine to make it the ideal place for an institution of learning. Rooms in many of the most comfortable and attractive homes in the city are open to students at reasonable rates. In this connection, it might be stated that the moral and spiritual atmosphere in the State Normal School is stimulating and wholesome. Its students have ever been most generous in testifying to its helpfulness to a better living. Our church friends need have no fear that their children will not find a church home and church friends in abundance. There are about twenty

different denominations represented in the churches of Emporia, and in nearly every Sunday-school there are one or more classes composed almost exclusively of Normal students. Every Endeavor association, League and Union in the city has consecrated students in its membership. The Union Christian Endeavor Society of the School is one of the largest and best organized in the state. A late canvass showed seventyfive per cent. of the students to be professing Christians, a proportion seldom exceeded at even a denominational school.

New Features. The organization of the departments of child study, physical training and manual training have provided facilities in these lines not elsewhere offered in Kansas. Teachers who may desire to specialize in one or all of them will find the instruction most happily suited to their wants. The day is not far distant when every teacher will be tested by his familiarity with child nature and child mind, and with the laws of child growth. Manual training will not be long in entering every progressive city in the state, and the teacher's preparation will not be complete without it. The course in elementary psychology and methods of study, as well as the special reviews in principles and methods in the common branches, are other advance steps recently made that teachers will appreciate.

The Regents have just approved a plan for employing an assistant in the department of physical training who shall have had special training as a nurse and whose specific duty shall be to look after the needs of sick students and students in poor health. This provision, so far as we know, is made by no other institution of learning in Kansas, and, we are assured, will prove most acceptable to our patrons.

We hope that our friends are bearing in mind that the Normal School stands for a principle. It maintains that all good

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