EXCLUSIVE BOOK HOUSE 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, Public School Libraries, etc. Public School Libraries. We have constantly on hand, and for sale at the lowest rates, all the Books recommended by the State Board of Education for Public School Libraries. Orders for these Libraries are respectfully solicited and will be promptly and carefully filled. 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. Globes. A complete assortment of Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, mounted in various styles, and sold singly or in pairs. Also, Maps, Charts, Atlases, etc. 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. Mar. A. ROMAN & CO. The Ninth Term of the State Normal School commenced on Wednesday, January 24, 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. .Secretary. .Superintendent Schools, San Francisco. JOHN SWETT, Superintendent of Public Instruction 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 Physiology. 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. NATIONAL PENMANSHIP, AT THE TENTH EXHIBITION OF THE MASS. CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION, September, 1865. The Judges, in their Report, say-"This appears to be the most practical system taught, combining all desirable elegance, neatness, and distinctness. It is the system taught in our schools, and it is commended by its simplicity and adaptability to commercial and business purposes. The Committee recommend, as a recognition of its merits, a Bronze Medal." So well known is this system, and such is its popularity, that the initials GOS and are as universally understood, at sight, as are the letters U. S. A.; and being the system most widely introduced, and the most extensively used in the United States, the publishers feel that they can rightly claim for it the title of the National System. Nor is its Fame confined to this Country, The demand for it in the British Provinces is so great, that an edition of this renowned series was manufactured in England for the British-American market, an event unparalleled in the history of Copy Books! and showing conclusively that it is considered there better than any other Ameri can or English system. **All persons interested in this important branch of education, are invited to examine this system. Circulars and specimens will be sent on application. PAYSON, DUNTON & SCRIBNER'S SCRITON STEEL PENS. 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