Southern Indiana Normal College, MITCHELL, IND. W. F. HARPER, M. A., President. Catalogues Sent Free on Application-Enrollment of Different Students for A FEW QUESTIONS ANSWEred. I. Who are the teachers in the Southern Indiana Normal School? Prof. W. F. Harper, the President is a classical graduate of the N. N. S., Lebanon O., class of '73. Having had several years experience in country schools and as Superintendent of Graded Schools before graduation, he was called at once, after the completion of his course, to the chair of English Branches and Mathematics in his Alma Mater. This position he retained for three years, and then resigned to establish the Central Normal of this State. Within two years he had gathered a school of such size as to exceed its accommodations. By a change of location sufficient 100m was secured. Prof. Harper's health failing, he resigned in 1879, leaving a large and flourishing institution to his successor. Having regained his health he was elected President of the Southern Indiana Normal College, in the spring of 1880. Notwithstanding his former success was almost wonderful, the growth S. I. N. C.. its firm hold upon the minds of the people, the satisfaction, and the actual results accomplished, are far in advance of anything before achieved. Last year Prof. Harper received the degree of Master of the Liberal Arts, and has been for several years secretary of the Superintendents' section of the National Normal Institute. Frof. W. E. Lugenbeel is also a graduate of the N. N. S. He has been universally successful, and stands to-day among the first mathematicians and scientists in the State. His work is genuine and thorough and needs no praising to be appreciated. Prof. Lügenbeel has honorably won the degree of Master of Science. Miss Edith L. Jackman is a classical graduate of the Normal School of Ohio, in which she was a most successful and popular teacher. In her present position she gives great satisfaction. Besides her literary and classical culture, Miss Jackman has given much attention to elocution and ranks with the best teachers of that subject. Prof. A. W. Dudley has charge of the Business and Fine Art Departments. Of the many excellent teachers of these subjects, Mr. Dudley, probably, has no superior, He is an accomplished scholar, a shrewd businessman and thoroughly acquainted with all the methods of the Pittsburg, Poughkeepsie, New York Commercial College. He teaches the Walter Smith (Boston) system of Drawing, by far the best invented. He is the author of Dudley's Spencerian Revised System of Rapid Penmanship, now recognized as the only practical system for the Book-keeper and Accountant. The other teachers are all well qualified for the positions they occupy. 2. What will be the probable cost of attending the S. I. N. C. during the summer term? From $30 to $28. 3. When can a pupil enter? At any time. 4. What classes do you have? All the Common Branches, Algebra, Geometry, Higher Mathematics, Natural Sciences. Astronomy, Surveying, Latin, Rhetoric, Vocal Music, Penmanship, Drawing, &c. Classes for everybody. 5. What kind of a building have you? The summer term will be held in the new public se..ool building, a large, two-story brick structure, well ventilated and furnished. A new Normal building is in process of erection, which will be the handsomest and most convenient independent Normal School Building in the State. This will be ready for the Fall term in September. THE TEACHER will soon complete its Sixth Volume. We have endeavored to do a work for teachers and the cause of common school education in the last six years no other educational journal in the land has even attempted. Especially have we done this in respect to country schools. The town and city schools seemed to engross the attention of progressive educators, but little or no interest was excited with regard to the welfare of country schools. It was taken for granted that nothing could be done for these schools. We undertook it, and now find after a lapse of six years that we have succeeded in grading te a good degree, the country schools. It is a fixed fact now that the country shall have as good schools, in kind, as the town. We propose to extend gradation to graduation. We propose that the children in the country shall be graduated in the common branches as the children in the larger towns are now. $5 to $20 Portland, Maine. per day at home Samples worth $5 ree. Address STINSON & CO., THE MISSOURI TEACHER. A SIXTEEN PAGE MONTHLY Devoted especially to school-room work. Every number is filled with practical suggestions for the teacher. The series of articies on methods of culture, involving the means of developing the various faculties of the mind, will be worth many times the price of the paper. subscription, Seventy-five cents a year. Sample copies free. Address, J. U. BARNARD, Kirksville, Mo. $66 a week a week in your own town. Terms and $5 outfit tree, Address H. HALLETT & CO., Portland, Maine. Spencerian BUSINESS COLLEGE. This old and reliable institution of fers superior advantages to Young Men and Women for p eparing for an active business life, or becoming successful teachers of Sp ncerian Penmanship, under one of the authors of the System. For Information, address PLATT R SPENCER. W. B. CHRISLER, A. M., AND T. W. FIELDS. J. D. D. WILLIAMSON, Corresponding Editor. $1.00 per Year; 50 Cents for Six Months; 25 Cents for Three Months Published Monthly. Terms in Advance. Clubs of Three, 90c.; of Five, 85c.; of Ten, or more, 75c. John V. Smith, Printer, Bedford, Indiana. "THE STANDARD SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY OF INDIANA.' INDIANA EDITION OF ELECTIC GEOGRAPHIES. PRICES REDUCED. THE VOICE OF THE TEACHERS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. I know of no other work with which I am so well pleased.-Superintendent Cooper, Richmond. Have proved to be the delight of both pupils and teachers.--Superintendent Krummer, South Bend. Almost beyond the reach of criticism.--J. P. Funk, Corydon. Of superior exce lence in every respect.--County Superintendent Marlow. The nearest to perfection of any I ever saw.--Allen Moore, Washington. I think we are safe in saying it is the best.--President Prune, Hartsville. The best suited to our wants. Unanimously adopted.-County Superintendent Thompson. Superior to any other.-Professor Houghton, State University. No other geography of which I have any knowledge can equal them.--Superintendent Trissler, Lawrenceburg. Most complete and accurate geography of the State I have seen.-Superintendent Stout, North Vernon. The best on every point.-County Superintendent Ewing. A long step in advanea of anything of the kind --Dr. Henderson, Salem. An examination ought to convince any teacher of the superior merits of the system. The maps are the best.-J. C. Chilton, Principal, Orleans. Superior in many respects. Used in our Normal Department with extire satisfaction.-Prof. Beattie, Bedford College. The best ever offered.--C. Whitted, Principal, Owensburg. Certainly ahead of others in every respect. -Superinten lent Carr, Adams. A household necessity.-County Superintendent Caress. I regard them the best, having used them for some time.--Superintendent Britton. The most accurate and applicable to modern methods of teaching.-Superintendent McGree. We find more in two books than we formerly had in five --Superintendent Dunkle. The geography of Indiana makes the work indispensible to Indiana schools.--Superintendent Harlan. The best treatment of our State geography I have seen.--Superintendent Barnes. The best yet.--Superintendent Gamble. Unrivaled in any text-book hitherto publishe 1--Superintendent Goodwin, Jeffersonville. REDUCED PRICES. The Indiana Edition of the Eclectic Geographies will be furnished at the same prices as the regular edition. EXCHANGE. Eelectic Primary Geography. Eclectic Intermediate Geography (Indiana Edition INTRODUCTION. Single Sample Copies, for examination with a view to first introduction, sent postpaid by mail, to teachers or school officers, on receipt of introduction price. VA ANTWERP, BRAGG & CO., Successors to Wilson, Hinkle & Co,, PUBLISHERS ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES, CINCINNATI AND NEW YORK. THE FIVE GRADE SYSTEM. At the convention of County Superintendents of Indiana, in June last, at the city of Indianapolis, the five grade system for the district schools of the State was almost unanimously adopted. It may be well for us to say something about this system by way of explanation as to what it is, and state some reasons why the County Superintendents of the State adopted it. It may be well to make a preliminary statement as to the origin of grading the district schools in Indiana. It had its beginning about eight years ago. We think no one alone suggested it; but that it was rather the spontaneous expression of the sentiment of a considerable number of the educators of the State, especially of County Superintendents who were a new set of school officers just created, taking the place of the school examiners. These new school officers found the schools of their counties in a doleful condition-a condition little better than chaos. They were anxious to do something for their schools, to elevate them out of the chaos and ruin around. They said, or at least a few of thein said, we will introduce system. But it was not so easy to determine the system to be introduced. It was generally agreed there must be system, and some of the most enterprising Superintendents went to work and made systems for their several counties, and inaugurated the work. Walter S. Smith did this for Marion county, and he worked with might and main at it. David Moury did the same in Elkhart county. Others did the same in other counties. At the first convention of Superinten dents they told us what they were doing, and went to the blackboard and explained their work. This aroused a general interest, and others took hold of the matter, and blazed out new paths into the wilderness and fog before us all, until after the lapse of eight |