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ON THE

PACIFIC COAST.

A. ROMAN & CO. Booksellers, Importers & Publishers,

Nos. 417 and 419 Montgomery Street,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Offer for Sale at Wholesale and Retail,

THE MOST EXTENSIVE STOCK OF

School Books

In this market, embracing all the Text Books adopted by the State Board of Education, likewise all those in use in Colleges and Private Schools. Maps, Charts, Globes, Atlases, etc., etc.

Standard and Miscellaneous Books,

A complete assortment in every department of Literature and Science.

Theological & Religious Books & Medical Works.

Send for our Catalogues, which will be found to contain every valuable work extant on these subjects.

Juvenile and Toy Books.

A mammoth stock, including Sunday School Books. The publications of the various Sunday School Societies, etc.

Subscription Books,

Embracing all the most important works, for which we want Agents in every county on this coast. Liberal terms offered; for full particulars, address our "Subscription Department."

Field Croquet.

We are the Agents for this new and delightful game; a splendid School amusement, and should be introduced into every play ground in the State. Complete sets, neatly put up in boxes; price per set, plain, $14.00; extra finish, $15.00.

Parlor Games,

Instructive and amusing for young folks; thirty different varieties, including "The Game of Authors;" "Noted People and Places;" "The Tipsy Philosopher;" "The Commanders of our Forces;" "The Garrison Game," etc., etc. Special inducements and liberal discounts offered to Teachers, Public and Private Libraries, etc.

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The Ninth Term of the State Normal School commenced on Wednesday, January 2d, 1867, and will close in June next.

No new pupils will be admitted until the opening of the next term.

EXTRACT FROM THE REGULATIONS.

All pupils, on entering the School, shall be required to sign the following declaration of intention:

"We, the subscribers, hereby declare that our purpose in entering the State Normal School is to fit ourselves for the profession of Teaching, and that it is our intention to engage in teaching in the Public Schools of this State."

Male candidates for admission must be at least eighteen years of age; and female applicants at least fifteen years of age; and all must possess a good degree of physical health and vigor.

The Principal of the School shall be authorized, under the direction of the Executive Committee, to examine and admit applicants at any time during the term, when it shall appear that such candidates could not present themselves at the opening of the term.

No pupil shall be entitled to a Diploma who has not been a member of the School at least one term of five months; but certificates of attendance, showing character and standing, shall be given to all who pursue an undergraduate or temporary course of study.

OFFICERS.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

F. F. LOW, Governor of State........

..ex officio President of the Board.

JOHN SWETT, Superintendent of Public Instruction ..... ....Secretary.

OFFICE-No. 302, North-east corner of Montgomery and Pine streets, Rooms 5 and 6.

ENTERING CLASS-SUB-JUNIOR.

Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, History, Reading, Penmanship, Drawing, School Calisthenics, Object-Teaching, Moral Lessons, General Exercises. Half an hour each day is devoted exclusively to Methods of Teaching, using Sheldon's Elementary Instruction, and exercises relating to the State Course of Study.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Same studies as in the entering class, with the addition of Algebra and Physiol ogy. Methods of Teaching, half an hour daily.

SENIOR CLASS.

Arithmetic, Algebra, Grammar, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Botany, Russell's Normal Training and Vocal Culture, Physical Geography.

Methods of Teaching.-State Course of Study. Rules and Regulations. Use State Registers. School Law. Half an hour each day to be devoted exclusively to Methods of Teaching and School Management.

General Exercises.-Select Readings; Declamations, and reading of Compositions weekly in each class room on Friday, and monthly as a general exercise for the whole school. Exercises in free Gymnastics, with dumb bells, rods and rings, etc., daily, fifteen minutes.

Training School.-Pupils shall be detailed to teach in the Training School, one week at a time, in the following order: Two from the Senior Class, and two from the Junior Class, detailed each week in alphabetical order.

Two pupils each day shall be detailed from the Sub-Junior Class to visit the Training School and observe Methods of Teaching. The Principal of the Normal School shall visit the Training School half an hour daily to observe the methods pursued by the pupil teachers.

The Assistant Teachers in the Normal School shall visit the Training Classes at least once a week, for a time not less than one hour each visit. The credits obtained in the Training School shall be kept by the Principal of the State Normal School in a record separate from the term record of the pupils, and shall form an important part of the graduating standard.

GENERAL REMARKS.

The object of the California State Normal School is to provide for the Public Schools of the State a class of well-trained professional Teachers. The course of study as adopted for the School in its present stage of advancement, may seem very plain and unassuming, compared with the more pretentious lists of sciences and languages pursued in many private institutions; but it should be borne in mind that the aim of the Normal School is to teach thoroughly what it assumes to teach, and that its purpose is to fit Teachers for the actual duties of our public school rooms, rather than to graduate mere literary scholars.

Applicants who desire further information will apply by letter to the Principal of the School.

Payson! Dunton Scribner

National

Penmanship,

PRESENT THEIR COMPLIMENTS TO THE

TEACHERS OF THE UNITED STATES,

and beg to inform them, that being desirous to keep the system IN ADVANCE OF ALL OTHERS, as by the unanimous verdict of the Country it always has been, they are now issuing AN ENTIRELY NEW EDITION, REVISED, RE-ARRANGED, AND IMPROVED, and embracing the combined results of the experience of our talented authors.

THIS SYSTEM COMPRISES

1st. A SERIES OF COPY BOOKS. COMMON SCHOOL Series, BUSINESS SERIES, LADIES' SERIES, ORNAMENTAL BOOK, and DRILL BOOK. 2d. OBLIQUE LINES. For Teaching the Proper Slope in Writing. 3d. A MANUAL OF PENMANSHIP. Containing a Full Statement of Payson, Dunton & Scribner's Celebrated Method of Teaching.

4th. NATIONAL WRITING TABLETS. Fac-similes of the Prin ciples and Letters, thoroughly analyzed, as written of large size on the Blackboard, containing also Exercises for Drill and Class-Teaching.

5th. A SYSTEM OF BOOK-KEEPING. In which the Day-Book. Journal, and Ledger are presented in written form.

This is not merely a Series of COPY BOOKS, but a METHOD OF INSTRUCTION. While it directs and exemplifies to the Pupil what is to be written, it at the same time instructs the Teacher how to conduct the exercises successfully.

STANDING PRE-EMINENT ABOVE ALL OTHERS IN

Originality, Simplicity, and Mathematical Exactness and Beauty,

it is expressly adapted to the Schools of the United States, and comprehends every thing requisite for the convenience of the Teacher, and the needs of the Scholar. So widely known is this system, and such is its popularity, that the initials

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Its Immense Popularity arises from, 1. Its Completeness. 2. Its Simplicity. 3. Its Variety. 4. Its Progressiveness. 5. Its Enterprise. 6. Its Beauty, 7. Its Originality. Its Transcendent Superiority over all others as a SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL INSTRUCTION, CANNOT BE DENIED.

The Best Teachers Assert it!

Experience has Proved it!

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