Salem Normal School Catalog, 1894-95.

Register and ©ircular OF THE

State

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1894 — 1895.

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Post Office Square.

1895.

Hegister for the Year 1894-1895.

BOARD OF EDUCATION. His Excellency Governor FREDERIC T. His Honor Lieutenant-Governor ROGER

GREENHALGE, Lowell.

WOLCOTT, Boston.

ADMIRAL P. STONE, LL.D., Mrs. KATE GANNETT WELLS, Hon. MILTON B. WHITNEY, GEORGE I. ALDRICH, A.M., Rev. ELMER H. CAPEN, D.D Hon. ELIJAH B. STODDARD, GEORGE H. CONLEY, Mrs. ALICE FREEMAN PALMER,

Springfield.

Boston.

Westfield.

Newtonville.

College Hill.

Worcester.

Boston.

Cambridge.

OFFICERS OF BOARD OF EDUCATION. Hon.

FRANK

C. B.

TILLINGHAST,

A. HILL, A.M., Secretary.

Eso,.,

Assistant Secretary and Treasurer.

AGENTS OF THE BOARD. GEORGE A. WALTON, A.M. JOHN T. PRINCE, Ph.D

West Newton.

West Newton.

ANDREW

Worcester.

G. T.

W. EDSON, A.M. FLETCHER, A.M

HENRY

T.

Northampton.

BAILEY,

JAMES W. MACDONALD, L. WALTER SARGENT

North

Scituate.

Stoneham.

A.M.,

Pittsfield.

BOARD OF VISITORS. ELMER H. CAPEN, D.D., GEORGE I. ALDRICH, A.M

College Hill.

Rev.

Newtonville.

INSTRUCTORS. DANIEL ELLEN M. DODGE. CAROLINE J. COLE. SOPHIA

B.

DRIVER. HARRIET L. MARTIN. O.

ADELAIDE TOWLE. HARRIET D. ALLEN. MARY E. GODDEN. E.

HAGAR,

A.M., Ph.D., Principal.

JESSIE

LEAROYD. ADAMS. F. WHITNEY.

P.

CHARLES CHARLES

E.

Mrs. GISH

MARY

A.

GARWOOD.

COMEY.

SUSAN L. WONSON. WILLIAM C. MOORE,

S. B.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

OF STUDENTS

t^EGISTEH

Term ending January

22, 1895.

SPECIAL STUDENTS. Edith

J.

Bradford, Vt.

Chamberlin,

Cotuit.

Lizzie E. Lovell,

Ethel B. Manchester,

.

.

.

.

.

ADVANCED Alice

M. Abbott,

Salem.

Townsend.

Lilla E. Stearns,

CLASS.

New

.

Harriet C. Beattie,

.

.

.

.

,

.

.

Market, N. H.

Salem.

Danvers.

Peabody.

Lawrence.

Peabody.

Julia C. Carleton,

Elizabeth R. Osborn, Nellie S. Stackpole, Abigail Frances Wilson,

CLASS

A.

Annie Barker, Laura A. Bodge, Marion Louise Boyuton Edith M. Brown, Florence E. Gaun, Josephine E. Connors, Winnie E. Davison, Elsie M. Dearborn,

Lawrence.

Peabody.

Imogene E. Edmands, Agnes M. Follen, Mabel R. Frizzell,

Wakefield.

Annie F. Gale, Grace E. Go wen, Cora J. Jaquith,

Tewksbury.

.

.

.

Alice L. Kimball,

Cora E. Laskey, Katharine G. Logan, Mary Manning, Annabelle McDiarmid,

Groveland.

Gloucester.

Salem.

Winchester.

Winthrop.

Bradford Centre, Me.

Nahant.

Canaan, Vt. Stratham, N. H. Beading.

Newburyport.

Cambridge.

Peabody.

Everett.

Manchester.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

Isabelle H. Murray,

Melrose.

.

.

Edith A. Parker,

.

.

Danvers.

Marblehead.

Nellie C. Nichols,

Martha B. Perkins, Minnie L. Proctor, Alice J. Small, Lilla

D. Stott,

Cora

P. Sylvester,

.

M. Tufts, Henriette M. Wenzel,

Alice

G.

.

Woodman,

Edith C. Arey, Ann E. Atkinson,

Cliftondale.

.

Groveland.

.

Nashua, N. H.

.

Salem.

•

Sadie M. Todd,

Mary

Somerville.

.

.

... .

.

Salem.

.

Melrose.

.

South Boston.

Beverly.

.

CLASS

B.

...

Salem.

.

Chelsea.

Charlotte M. Baine,

.

Lalia A. M. Bishop,

.

Lynnfield.

Mary

.

East Cambridge.

.

Everett.

A. Boland,

.

Elizabeth R. Bradbury,

Mary G. Brogan, Laura M. Brown, Georgia H. Bucknam, Clara E. Burnham, Addie B. Byam,

.

.

Somerville.

.

Tapleyville.

.

.

.

Elliott,

Carrie E. Farnham,

Susan E. Farnham, Margaret M. Fearns, Lena S. Frederikson, Annie M. French, Margaret E. Grady, .

Estelle A. G. Jackson,

Helen G. Kennedy, Mabel F. Knowles, Grace S. Leavitt, Jeannette W. Locke, Ellen C. Mahoney, Mollie Belle Marsh, .

Beatrice B. McGlauflin,

Woburn.

.

Maiden.

Salem.

"Woburn.

North Cambridge.

North Cambridge.

National City, Cal.

.

Beverly.

.

Marion E. Conn, Evelyn M. Dormer, Florence M. Dudley, Florence L.

Revere.

.

Charlotte A. Callahan, A. Cohane,

.

.

Ethel E. Cass,

Mary

.

Lawrence.

Methuen.

Bucksport, Me.

.

Jessie M. Caird,

Swampscott.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Peabody.

Cambridge.

Somerville.

.

Kingston, N. H. Melrose.

Hartford, Conn.

.

Methuen.

.

.

.

.

Salem.

East Lexington.

.

Salem.

Lowell.

.

Lawrence.

.

Middleton.

.

5

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

6

Catharine A. McLean,

Mary

L.

Mosman,

Carrie S. Nell son,

Ellen T. O'Hearn,

.

.

.

.

.

.

Catharine G. O'Leary,

.

,

Plummer, Mary A. Plummer, Henrietta M. Pushee, Mabel C. Reid, E. Gertrude

Edith E. Smith, Kate F. S. Smith,

Mary

T. Stewart,

.

.

.

Somerville.

Chelsea.

.

.

Lynn.

.

.

Chelsea.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Salem.

.

.

.

.

.

C.

Colebrook, N. H.

.

.

.

Flora L. Danforth, A. Gertrude Deane, Sarah C. Dennett, Mary A. V. Farley, .

Fuller,

Gertrude P. R. Gannon, Ethelina J. Gordon, Jennie H. Gordon, Bertha M. Hill, Amy G. Hodgkins, Mabel Hooper, Jennie B. Hupper, Mary A. Hurley,

.

.

Peabody.

.

.

Beverly.

.

Peabody.

.

Lawrence.

.

Salem.

.

Salem.

Danversport.

Methuen.

.

.

.

Lynn.

.

Gloucester.

.

Clifton.

.

Lynn.

East Cambridge.

Manchester.

.

Topsfleld.

.

Beverly.

.

.

Abbie P. Lefavour, Mabel E. Lindsey, Eleanor A. Maling, Carrie A. Marchant, .

Everett.

.

.

Alice L. Lake,

West Newton.

Norway, Me.

.

.

E. Killam,

Danvers.

North Andover.

Ellsworth, Me.

.

.

Mary

Salem.

North Reading.

Canaan, Vt. Peabody.

Salem.

Washington, D. C.

Margaret Clark, B. Genevieve Costello, Nora M. Cragin,

Amy A.

Shapleigh, Me. Beverly.

.

,

CLASS

Mary H. Callahan, Mary F. Calnane,

Med ford.

.

.

Eleanor M. Sullivan, Mary W. Todd, Carolyn G. Weeks, Grace L. Wheeler, Mary A. Whelton, Mattie E. White, Grace A. Woodbury,

Erne A. Brackett, Myra L. Burbeck,

Cambridge.

North Reading.

Cambridge.

Beverly Farms.

Lawrence.

.

Marblehead.

Salem.

.

Gloucester.

.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

Woburn.

Catherine E. McCormick,

Annie C. McKenzie,

.

Elsie B. Porter,

Agnes R. Ronan,

.

Sarah E. Russell,

.

Ella F. Stevens,

.

7

.

.

Swampscott.

Saugus.

Revere.

West

Somerville.

Readville.

Margaret A. Sweetman,

Beverly.

Mary

Manchester.

Milton, N. H.

R. Turner,

Lillian

Mary

.

V. Wallace,

E. Ware,

.

CLASS Ardelle Abbott,

.

Agnes A. Ashe,

Bessie A. Isabella

.

Dadmun,

M. Daly,

.

Adele Helene Duval, Grace F. Dwyer, Anna L. Fillebrown, Katharine A. Flynn, Katie A. Gaskill, Edith A. Gillelan, Florence W. Gooding, Anna E. Haley, Jennie C. Hardy, Grace E. Haskell, .

.

.

.

Hayden,

G..

Mary

E. Healy,

Revere.

Danvers Centre.

.

.

.

.

.

Hurst,

.

Julia F. McCarthy,

Helen M. McManus, Katharine W. Murray,

Salem.

Andover.

Bradford.

.

Somerville.

Somerville.

.

Cambridge.

Hampton, N. H.

.

Somerville.

.

.

.

.

Salem.

Cambriclgeport.

Belchertown.

Methuen.

Salem.

Woburn.

.

Georgetown.

.

Chelsea.

.

Townsend.

.

Maiden.

Peabody.

Groveland.

Methuen.

Salem.

.

Everett.

.

.

.

Katherine A. Hynes, Bessie M. Libby, Mabel A. Mann,

Somerville.

.

.

Mabel B. Humphrey,

Somerville.

Somerville.

North Cambridge.

.

.

.

Methuen.

Lawrence.

.

.

L. Herrick,

Somerville.

.

.

Edith F. Hersey, Bertha R. Heselton, Katherine A. Howard,

Emma

.

.

Gertrude M. Heartz,

Emma

.

.

.

Mabel G. Delano, Katherine L. Dolan, Eleanor M. Driscoll,

Ellen

D.

.

Elizabeth G. Barry,

Blanche G. Carter, Mary H. Clancy,

.

Wakefield.

.

.

.

.

Andover.

East Cambridge.

Lawrence.

Lillie

M. Nickerson,

Selina A. Nolan,

Mabel E. Nowell,

.

Lynn.

Andover.

Saugus.

Ellen F. O'Connell,

Somerville.

Mary Alma

E. Perkins,

Salem.

L. Poore,

West Henniker, N. H.

Carrie L. Power, Mabel F. Proctor,

Melrose.

Clarissa E. Prouty,

Mary M. Quealy, Mary E. Regan,

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Grace E. Rowe, Gertrude E. Russell, Jennie R. Sanborn, Jennie C. Sargent, Eleanor M. Sheehan,

Edna

Melrose.

.

A. Skinner,

.

Grace M. Spinney, Ellen A. Sullivan,

Mary H. Swett, Jeannette P. Thompson, .

.

.

.

.

.

.

Cambridge.

Reading.

Manchester.

Salem.

Methuen.

Maiden.

East Cambridge.

Peabody.

Winchester.

Lynn.

Rowley.

Georgietta M. Thornton, S. Todd, Lucy E. Tomlinson, Mabel E. Towne, Mary E. Welch, Susan A. Welch,

Edith

Mada

Danvers Centre.

Townsend.

North Andover.

Cambridge.

Salem.

Boxford.

Salem.

Clarksburg.

Somerville.

Wendell, Alice L. Westgate, Sara A. White, Edith Wingate, S.

Somerville.

Methuen.

Hampton, N. H.

Annie M. Yeabower,

Washington, D. C.

Henrietta L. Yelland,

Somerville.

SUMMARY Special students,

Advanced Class

Class

A B

4

class,

(senior),

Class C, Class D,

Whole number Whole number

for the term, for eighty-one terms,

.

.

.

6

-.

31

*.

52

.

36

.

68

.

197 4,062

1

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

9

^EGISTE^ OF STUDENTS FOR THE

Term ending June

25, 1896.

SPECIAL STUDENTS. Bradford, Vt.

Chamberlin, Alice L. Kimball, Eleanor A. Mai inn.

Xewburyport.

Ethel B. Manchester,

Salem.

Florence L. Page,

Salem.

Edith

J.

.

Salem.

.

ADVANCED M. Abbott,

Alice

Harriet C. Beattie, Julia C. Carleton,

Elizabeth R. Osboru, Nellie S. Stackpole,

CLASS.

.... .... ....

X.-w Market, N.

Darners.

Peabody.

Lawrence.

Peabody.

Abigail Frances Wilson,

CLASS Edith

Ann

C

Arey,

E. Atkinson,

.

.

A. .

Elizabeth R. Bradbury, Edith M. Brown, Georgia H. Bncknam, Clara E. Bnrnham, Addie B. Byam,

Everett.

Gloucester.

.

Bucksport, Me.

B eve re.

Somerville.

Woburn.

Woburn.

Charlotte A. Callahan, .

.

Salem.

Chelsea.

.

Marion E. Conn, Evelyn M. Dormer, Florence M. Dudley, Carrie E. Farnham, Susan E. Farnham, Margaret M. Fearns, Agnes M. Follen, Lena S. Frederikson,

11.

Salem.

.

North Cambridge.

North Cambridge.

Beverly.

Peabody.

Cambridge.

Nahant.

Somerville.

10

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

Estelle A. G. Jackson,

Hartford, Conn.

Helen G. Kennedy, Mabel F. Knowles, Grace S. Leavitt, Katharine G. Logan, Ellen C. Mahoney, Mollie B. Marsh,

Methuen.

Salem.

East Lexington.

Peabody.

.

Lowell.

Lawrence.

Cambridge.

Cambridge.

Darners.

Lawrence.

Marblehead.

Medford.

Shapleigh, Me,

.

Catharine A. McLean, Carrie S. Nellson,

.

Nellie C. Nichols,

.

Catharine G. O'Leary, Edith A Parker, E. Gertrude Plummer, .

Mary A. Plummer, Minnie L. Proctor,

Cliftondale.

Henrietta M. Pushec,

Beverly.

Edith E. Smith, Kate F. S. Smith,

Lynn.

Chelsea.

.

.

Mary T. Stewart, Eleanor M. Sullivan, Mary W. Todd

Chelsea.

.

:

Mattie E. White,

Grace A.

Salem.

North Reading.

Washington, D.

.

.

Woodbury,

Salem.

CLASS Charlotte M. Baine,

Mary

A. Boland,

.

Effie A. Brackett,

.

Mary

G. Brogan,

.

Jessie

M. Caird,

Mary H. Callahan, Mary F. Calnane, A. Cohane,

B.

Swampscott.

East Cambridge.

Colebrook, N. H. Lawrence.

Tapleyville.

North Andover.

Ellsworth, Me.

.

Ethel E. Cass,

Mary

C.

.

Maiden.

Salem.

Nora M. Cragin,

West Newton.

Norway, Me.

A. Gertrude Deane, Florence L. Elliott,

National City, Cal.

Amy

Salem.

B. Genevieve Costello,

A. Fuller,

Gertrude P. R. Gannon, Jennie H. Gordon,

Margaret E. Grady, Bertha M. Hill, Amy G. Hodgkins, Jennie B Hupper, .

Mary Mary

A. Hurley, E. Killam,

.

Peabody.

Salem.

Methuen Melrose.

Lynn.

Gloucester.

Lynn.

East Cambridge.

Manchester.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

11

Alice L. Lake,

Topsfield.

Abbie P. Lefavour, Mabel E. Lindsey, Carrie A. Marchant,

Beverly.

Marblehead.

Gloucester.

Catherine E. McCormick Beatrice B. McGlauflin,

Middleton.

Annie C. McKenzie,

Swarapscott.

Elsie B. Porter,

Saugus.

Woburn.

Mabel C. Reid,

Somerville.

Elizabeth G. Roberts,

Rollings ford, N. H.

Agnes R. Ronan, Sarah E. Russell,

Revere.

.

West

.

Margaret A. Sweetman, Mary A. Whelton,

Salem.

.

CLASS Ardelle Abbott,

Clancy,

Isabella

Mabel G. Delano,

.

.

Sarah C. Dennett, Katherine L. Dolan, Grace F. Dvvyer, Anna L. Fillebrown, Edith A. Gillelan, Florence W. Gooding, Anna E. Haley, Jennie C. Hardy, Grace E. Haskell, Ellen G. Hayden, .

.

Somerville.

.

Somerville.

.

Somerville.

Everett.

.

North Cambridge.

.

Bradford.

.

Somerville.

Hampton, N.

.

Somerville.

.

Salem.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

L. Herrick,

.

Edith F. Hersey, Bertha R. Heselton, Katherine A. Howard, .

.

Chelsea.

Mabel A. Mann, Julia F. McCarthy, Helen M. McManus,

.

•

Georgetown.

Townsend.

.

.

Katherine A. Hynes, Bessie M. Libby,

Woburn.

.

.

.

.

.

.

II.

Cambridge.

Belchertown.

Methuen.

Salem.

.

.

Mabel B. Humphrey,

Emma Hurst,

.

.

Gertrude M. Heartz,

Emma

Peabody.

.

E. Healy,

Centre.

.

.

.

Mary

Dan vers

.

Dadmun,

M. Daly,

Revere.

.

.

Margaret Clark, Bessie A.

Somerville.

Methuen.

.

Blanche G. Carter, II.

C. .

Agnes A. Ashe,

Mary

Somerville.

Beverly.

Maiden.

Peabody.

South Grovel and.

Methuen.

Salem.

Everett.

Andover.

East Cambridge.

12

STA

Katharine W. Murray, Nickerson, Lillie Seliua A. Nolan,

I

U

SCHOOL, SALE

.

.

M

Mabel E. No well,

.

.

.

Ellen F. O'Connell.

Mary

E. Perkins,

Carrie L. Power,

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Georgietta M. Thornton Edith S. Todd, Lucy E Tomlinson.

Mada

S.

L

Cambridge.

.

Jeannette P. Thompson,

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Martha W. Bell, Alice A. Brown, Rosa M. Bumstead, .

Catharine A. Burden.

Ethel M. Carnmett,

.

Somerville.

.

Methueu.

Hampton. N. H.

.

.

Washington.

D. .

.

.

.

Lawrence.

Jewett City. Couu.

Jewett City. Conn.

Maiden.

Groveland.

.

Lawrence.

Lawrence.

.

Salem.

.

Somerville.

.

Swampscott.

Everett.

Silvia Fitz Gerald.

Flynu, .

.

Warrentina F. Lincoln, Emma L. Lord, Carrie C. Mildram.

Somerville.

Cambridge.

.

.

.

H C

Somerville

.

.

Anna L Hodgdon.

Anna G. Kinsella.

Wakefield.

Clarksburg.

.

Margaret C. Connor.

Josephine L. Dacey, Florence N. Day. Eleanor M DriscolL Edith A. Farnum,

A

Boxford.

Somerville.

CLASS

Katharine

Cambridge.

Reading.

Methueu.

Winchester.

Salem.

.

Sara A. White.

Edith Wingate, Annie M. Yeabower.

Henrietta L. Yellaud.

Katie A. Gaskill,

Melrose.

Lyun.

Rowley.

.

.

Wendell.

Westgau*.

t

Townsend.

North Audover.

.

Gertrude E. Russell,

Alice

Melrose

.

.

Jennie R. Sanborn, Edna A. Skinner,

Mabel E. Towne, Mary E. Ware, Susan A. Welch,

Salem.

.

Clarissa E. Prouty,

Mary M. Quealy, Mary E. Regan, Grace E. Rowe,

Somerville.

.

.

Lawrence.

Lynn.

Audorer.

Saugus.

.

.

.

.

Somerville.

Salem.

Maiden.

Maiden.

Wells. Me.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

Jessie M. Mildram.

.

Elizabeth G. Nelligan, Bessie L. Norton,

Alma

.

.

.

L. Poore,

.

Lulu F. Rider, Eleanor M. Sheehan.

Grace M. Spinney,

.

Ellen A. Sullivan,

.

.

.

.

Elizabeth B. Tower.

Mary

E. Welch,

.

.

.

Edith M. Whitford.

Minnie F. Wilson,

.

.

.

13

Wells, Me.

North Cambridge.

Salem.

West Henniker.

N. H.

New

Bedford.

Salem.

Maiden.

East Cambridge.

Concord, N. H. Salem.

Meli Sanbornton. N.

II.

SUMMARY.

Special students.

Advanced Class

A

class.

(senior),

..... ... ....

."j

G

39

Class B,

30

Class C,

58

Class D,

Whole number Whole number Whole number

30 for the term.

17+

for the year. for eight y-t\vo ten

2i'l is,

u

STATE

itctte

-

_

SALE

School.

Ipopr^al

Salem, Mass.

was established by the Commonwealth of 14 sachusetts. with tbe liberal co-operation of the city of Salem and the ra Bailroad Company, for the direct preparation of female teachers to instruct in the common and high schools required by law.

It is under the charge of the State Board of Education and of a special Board of Visitors. During the period ition

that has elapsed since the

reception of

the

fir-:

:.

—

tember. 1854, four thousand eighty-five ladies have been of the

school,

two thousand

thirty-five

whom

of

.

in

Sep-

members

have received

diplomas upon the honorable completion of the prescribed course of study.

SCHOOL YEAR AND TERMS .ining nineThe school year is divided into teen weeks of study, with a week's recess near the middle of each

term

New fall

classes are to be admitted hereafter at the beginning of the

term only.

Terms li

18 l€

"

begin.

September 3.

February 4 September 8.

1895, -

1C Ifi

EXAMINATIONS FOR

"

Jane 25 January ;ne23.

January

.

1895.

Examinations for admission in September. I 895, will be held on Thursday. June 27. and on Tuesday. September 3. Candid; »e between those dates. :"..

:

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

15

SEPTEMBER,

IN

1895.

Candidates for admission must bave attained the age of sixteen

from any disease or infirmity which would They must present a certifiunfit them for the office of teacher. cate of good moral character, give evidence of good intellectual capacity, be graduates of a high school whose courses of study have been approved by the Board of Education, or have an equivalent education, to be determined by the faculty of the school under years, and

must be

free

the direction of the Board of Visitors

examination

in

;

and pass a satisfactory

reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, geography,

English grammar, the history of the United States, drawing and

As an

physiology.

alternative,

jects for examination,

candidates

may

present, as sub-

one language other than English, algebra

or geometry, one of the natural sciences,

and general history or

literature.

Examinations for admission in September, 1896, will be held on Thursday and Friday, June 25 and 2G, and on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8 and 9.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

IN

1896.

Candidates for admission to any one of the normal schools must have attained the age of seventeen years complete, if males, and

and must be free from any disease or infirmity which would unfit them for the otlice of teacher.

They must present certificates of good moral standing, give evidence of good intellectual capacity, and be graduates of high schools whose courses of study have been approved by the Board of Education, or they must have received, to the satisfaction of the principal and the Board of Visitors of the school, the equivalent of a good highsixteen years,

if

females

;

The examinations

school education.

for

admission shall cover

such elementary and high-school subjects as may be determined by the Board.

For 1896 and thereafter the examinations will embrace the following groups 1.

Languages. (a) English, with its grammar and literature, and (b) one of the three languages, Latin, French and German. :

2.

and

— —

Mathematics. (c) the

— (a) Arithmetic,

(b) the elements of algebra

elements of plane geometry.

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3.

History and Geography.

4.

Sciences.

— The history and

government of Massachusetts and the United States, with related geography and so much of English history as is directly contributory to a knowledge of United States history.

— (a)

Physical geography,

(6)

civil

physiology

and

hygiene, (c) physics, (d) botany and (e) chemistry.

5.

Drawing and

Jfusic.

—

>

(a)

Elementary, mechanical

and

freehand drawing, with any one of the topics, form, color and

arrangement, and (6) musical notation.

ORAL EXAMINATIONS. Candidates

will

be questioned orally either upon some of the

foregoing subjects or upon matters of

common

the school, at the discretion of the examiners. the object

is to

interest to

them and

In this interview,

gain some impression about the candidates' personal

and

them au opportunity to furnish any evidences of qualification that might not otherwise become known to their examiuers.

Any work of a personal, genuine and legitimate character that candidates have done in connection with any of the groups that are set for examination, and that is susceptible of visible or tangible presentation, may be offered, and such work will be duly weighed in the final estimate, and may even determine it.

To indicate the scope of characteristics

their use of language, as well as to give

this feature, the following kinds of possible presentation are sug-

gested, but the candidates 1.

A

2.

Any

may

readily extend the

list

:

—

—

particularly such a book of book of drawing exercises, exercises as one might prepare in following the directions in "Au Outline of Lessons in Drawing for Ungraded Schools," prepared under the direction of the Massachusetts Board of Education, or in developing any branch of that scheme.

laboratory note-book that

is

a genuine record of experi-

ments performed, data gathered or work done, with the usual accompaniments of diagrams, observations and conclusions. o."

Any

essay or article that presents the nature, successive

steps and conclusion of any simple, personally conducted investi-

gation of a scientific character, with tables •4.

such diagrams, sketches,

and other helps as the character of the work may suggest.

Any exercise book containing compositions, abstracts,

analyses or other written work that involve? study in connection

with the literature requirements of the examination.

SPECIAL DIRECTIONS. Languages.

I.

English.

(a)

— The importance of a good foundation The plan and

cannot be overrated.

in

English

the subjects for the examina-

upon by the colleges and high technical schools of New England. While it is hoped that candidates may be able to study all the works given in this tion will be the

same

as those generally agreed

plan, the topics and questions will be so prepared for 1896,

and any candidate may expect to meet them who has mastered half of the works assigned for reading (or a bare majority of them) and half of the works thereafter until

further announcement, that

assigned for study and practice, the selection to be at the candidate's option.

No

candidate will be accepted in point

deficient

in

English

ivork

/r-hose

of spelling, punctuation,

'i<ll>>m

or

is

notably

division of

paragraphs.

Heading,

1.

— A limited number of

Candidates

ing.

be

will

required

books to

will

be set for read-

present

evidence of a

general knowledge of the subject-matter, and to answer simple

The form

questions on the lives of the authors. will usually be the writing of a

topics, to be

of examination

paragraph or two on each of several

chosen by the candidates from a considerable number

perhaps ten or fifteen

The treatment

—

set before

of these topics

is

them

in the

—

examination paper.

designed to test the candidates'

power of clear and accurate expression, and will general knowledge of the substance of the books. part or the whole of this test, candidates

may

call for

only a

In place of a

present exercise

books, properly certified by their instructors, containing compositions or other written

of the books. will

be

—

:

work done

The books

set for

in

connection with the reading

this

part of the examination

— Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream; Defoe's His-

1896.

tory of the

Plague in London; Irving's Tales of a Traveller; Scott's

Woodstock ; Macaulay's Essay on Milton; Longfellow's Evangeline

George

Eliot's Silas

1897.

Marner.

— Shakespeare's As

You Like

It; Defoe's History of the

Plague in London; Irving's Tales of a Traveller; Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales ; Longfellow's Evangeline ; George Eliot's Silas

Marner.

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— Milton's Paradise Lost, Books

and II; Pope's Iliad, The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator I and XXII Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Southey's Life of Xelson ; Carlyle's Essay on Burns; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal ; Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables.

Study and Practice.

2.

This part of the examination presupposes a more careful study of each of the works named below.

The examination will be upon subject-matter, form and structure, and will also test the candidates' ability to express their knowledge with clearness and accuracy.

The books set for this part of the examination will be 1898.

I

;

—

—

:

1896.

— Shakespeare's

II Penseroso,

3Ierchant of Venice; Milton's L' Allegro,

Comus and Lycidas ; Webster's

First Bunlier Hill

Oration.

— Shakespeare's

Merchant of Venice; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Scott's Marmion; Macaulay's Life of 1897.

Samuel Johnson.

1898. with

— Shakespeare's Macbeth:

Burke's Speech on Conciliation

America; De Quincey's Flight of a Tartar Tribe; Tennyson's

The Princess. (b) One only

German.

of the

three

languages,

Latin,

French

and

— The translation at sight of simple prose, with questions

on the usual forms and ordinary constructions of the language.

II.

(a) Arithmetic.

— Such an acquaintance with the subject as may

be gained in a good (6) Algebra.

Mathematics.

grammar

— The

school.

mastery of any text-book suitable for the

lowest class in a high school, through cases of affected quadratic equations involving one (c)

unknown

quantity.

Geometry. — The elements of plane geometry as presented in

any high-school text-book. While a fair acquaintance with ordinary book work in geometry will be accepted, candidates are advised to train themselves, so far as practicable, to do original work with both theorems and problems, and an opportunity will be offered them, by means of alternative questions, to test their ability in such work.

III.

Any

school

HlSTOKY AND GEOGRAPHY.

text-book on United States history

will

enable

candidates to meet this requirement, provided they study enough of

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geography to illumine the history, and make themselves familiar with the grander features of government in Massachusetts and the United States.

IV. (a) Physical Geography.

Sciences.

— The mastery of the elements of

subject as presented in the study of geography in a good

this

grammar

If the grammar-school work is supplemented by the study school. 'of some elementary text-book on physical geography, better prep-

aration

still is

assured.

Physiology and Hygiene.

(b)

— The

chief elementary facts of

anatomy, the general functions of the various organs, the more obvious rules of health, and the more striking effects of alcoholic drinks, narcotics and stimulants upon those addicted to their use. (c)

(d)

,

and

(e)

Physics, Chemistry and Botany.

— The

ele-

mentary principles of these subjects so far as they may be presented in the courses usually devoted to them in high schools.

Drawing and Music

V. (a)

Drawing.

(b)

Music.

— Mechanical

—

and freehand drawing, enough to enable the candidates to draw a simple object, like a box or a pyramid or a cylinder, with plan and elevation to scale, and to make a freehand sketch of the same in perspective. Also anyone of the three topics, form, color and arrangement.

— The

elementary principles of musical notation,

such as an instructor should know schools.

in

teaching

singing in the

Ability to sing, while not required, will be prized as an

additional qualification.

It

may

be

sai'd,

in general, that

tory high school, even

if it is

if

the ordinary

work of a

of the second or lower grade,

statuis

well

done, candidates should have no difficulty in meeting any of the

academic tests to which they

may

be subjected.

They cannot be

too earnestly urged, however, to avail themselves of the best high-

school facilities attainable in a four-years course, even though they

should pursue studies to an extent not insisted on, or take studies not prescribed, in the admission requirements.

The importance of a good record in the high school cannot be over-estimated.

The stronger the evidence of character, scholarship and promise, of whatever kind, they bring, especially from

schools of high reputation and from teachers of good judgment

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STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

fearless expression, the greater confidence they

may have

in

guarding themselves against the contingencies of an examination

and of satisfying the examiners of their fitness.

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

in case a

named

for

examination.

The following approximate time allowances brevity of the papers that

may

will

be set for examination

2.

Language, two hours.

Mathematics, two hours.

3.

History and geography, one hour.

4.

two hours.

Drawing and music, one hour.

1.

indicate the :

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Sciences,

5.

COURSE OF STUDY. The Board

of Education has prescribed the following branches

of study for the two-years course in the normal schools of

State

:

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Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, book-keeping

;

the

physics, astron-

omy, chemistry, botany, physiology, zoology, mineralogy, geology, geography reading, orthography, etymology, grammar, ;

rhetoric, literature, composition

gymnastics

;

;

penmanship, drawing, singing,

psychology, science and art of teaching, school organi-

zation, history of education

;

civil polity of

Massachusetts and of

the United States, school laws of Massachusetts,

The order

in

and history.

which these studies are to be taken

is

decided by

the principal of each school, with the approval of the Board of Visitors.

The following course

additional studies are assigned for the four-years

:

Advanced

advanced chemistry, higher mathematics (including plane and solid geometry, higher algebra and trigonometry), general history, Latin and French; Greek or German, in addition, is optional with the principal and the Board of Visitors physics,

of each school.

ADVANCED COURSE. Graduates of the regular course who desire to prepare themselves for the higher departments of teaching are permitted to take an advanced course, which occupies two years, and includes

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

and training

instruction

in

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the Latin, French and

German

lan-

guages, the higher mathematics, and the other branches required Graduates of to be taught in the high schools of Massachusetts. the school who may desire to take the advanced course are requested to communicate with the principal as early as possible.

A

neiv class is

formed

at the beginning

TWO-YEARS COURSE The following are the course, with the number of

of each fall term.

IN DETAIL.

studies which are carried through the

exercises per

week

:

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Reading (2) English composition, including rhetoric (2) vocal music (2) spelling, defining and etymology (4) drawing (2) ;

;

;

;

;

gymnastics (5).

Class

English

grammar,

D

(loivest).

anatomy and physiology, geography and

arithmetic, each four exercises per week.

Class C.

English grammar, geography, arithmetic

and geometrv, each

four exercises, and botany, two exercises.

Class B.

Physics, chemistry, English literature, United

States

history,

arithmetic (half term), algebra (half term), each four exercises.

Class A.

Astronomy

(half

terra),

geology (half term), object lessons

given to classes of children, psychology applied to principles and

methods of teaching and school management, mental philosophy, school laws and civil government (half term), book-keeping (half term), each four exercises, and zoology, two exercises.

AIMS AND METHODS OF STUDY AND TRAINING. The ends

aimed at in this school are the acquisition of the necessary knowledge of the principles and methods of education and of the various branches of study, the attainment of skill in the art of teaching, and the general development of the mental chiefly

powers.

From

the beginning to the end of the course

ducted with especial reference to the best ways

all

studies are con-

of teaching them.

Recitations, however excellent, are not

each pupil learned.

is

teach others

able to

deemed

that

satisfactory unless

which she has herself

In every study the pupils in turn occupy temporarily

the place of teacher of their classmates, and are subjected to their criticisms as well

those

as

Teaching

their regular teacher.

of

exercises of various kinds form a large and important part of the

school work. classes of

During the senior term object lessons are given to

primary-school children, so that every pupil obtains,

before graduating, considerable experience in teaching children to observe, think and give expression to thought.

The

studies are conducted

upon

the topical plan.

The commit-

are used, to a large extent, as books of reference.

memory

ting of text-books to

Text-books

avoided as far as possible, the

is

scholars being trained to depend upon thoughts rather than words.

The great object

of the school

think and speak for themselves reliant

;

is

make the pupils investigate, make them independent, self-

to

to

and ready to meet whatever

difficulties

may

arise.

DISCIPLINE.

The

discipline

of

the

school

made

is

as simple as possible.

Pupils are expected to govern themselves, to do without compul-

and to refrain voluntarily from all improThose who are unwilling to conform cheerfully to the known wishes of the principal and his assistants are presumed to be unfit to become teachers.

It is not deemed necessary to awaken a feeling of emulation sion what

is

required,

prieties of conduct.

in order to

induce the scholars to perform their duties faithfully.

The ranking

of scholars according to their comparative success in

their studies is not here allowed.

encouraged for certain

marks of

its

own

Faithful attention to duty

sake, not for the

is

purpose of obtaining

credit.

PROMOTIONS AND GRADUATIONS. Promotions from one class to another depend upon the character of the work done from day to day and upon written examinations during and at the close of each term. At the beginning of the senior term a special examination is had in all the branches taught in the

common

who pass it successYoung ladies who possess good

schools, and only those

fully are permitted to graduate.

natural ability and right habits of study find no serious difficulties in

passing the required examinations.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM.

ZO

LIBRARY, APPARATUS AND MUSEUM. The

institution has a valuable library, containing, in

works for

general reference and reading and in text-books, about nine thou-

sand volumes.

It has, also, a fair

supply of philosophical appa-

and a museum containing a large collection of specimens illustrating various departments of science. ratus,

LABORATORIES. The school

is

furnished with chemical and physical laboratories,

which are thoroughly equipped and which afford ample opportuniThe pupils arc carefully trained in ties for experimental work. the manufacture of

simple

illustration of chemistry

and inexpensive apparatus

for

the

and physics.

ART ROOM.

A

room has been handsomely

purpose of affording

facilities

np and furnished for the

for instruction

higher departments of drawing. casts,

fitted

A

large

and training

number

of

in the

beautiful

models and patterns have been obtained from London, and

have been conveniently arranged

members

in the

room, thus giving

to the

of the school advantages not formerly enjoyed.

ESSEX INSTITUTE AND PEABODY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. The important advantages offered by these well-known and most useful institutions are freely enjoyed by members of the normal school. The large and, in some respects, unequalled museum and cabinet belonging to the institute and academy afford rare opportunities for studies in various departments of science

;

and the instructive meetings of the Essex Institute, for the discussion of historical and scientific subjects, possess great value for all who are interested in the study of history and of nature.

EXPENSES, AID, ETC. Tuition

is

free to those

who comply with

the condition of teach-

ing in the public schools of Massachusetts, wherever they may have previously resided. Ladies designing to teach in other States

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or iu private schools

term for

may

SALE

be admitted by paying

fifteen dollars

a

tuition.

The text-books required from the school

library.

are mostly furnished, without charge,

It is

recommended,

:hat pupils

ho"^

should bring with them, for purposes of reference and comparison, the text-books which they have already studied

;

and they should,

especially, be provided with a dictionary and a recent

The

at"

which is paid by the pupils for board (not usually including' washing, or separate fire and lights) varies from three to four dollars per week, according to the accommodations furPupils who prefer to board themselves can obtain good nished. rooms for about one dollar a week. price

Pupils lick

who come

by railroads obtain season

'ne-half of the usual rat-

bs

For

to the school daily

the

who find even the moderate expe burdensome, the Commonwealth makes an annual

ssistance of those

of the school

appropriation.

This aid

is

distributed at the close of each term

among

pupils from Massachusetts who merit and :he aid, in sums varying according to the distance of their residences from Salem, but not exceeding in any case one dollar and fifty ÂŤ

per week.

In

this distribution

nection with the school

is

the

first

term of a pupil's con-

not reckoned, unles-

to complete the prescribed cou:^

NEW SCHOOL

:

:

-

i

enters

|

lepared

study in less than

BUILDIKC-

hoped that the noble and commodious building now in process of erection for the use of the Salem Normal School will be ready for occupancy before the close of the present year. The school will then be furnished with unsurpassed conveniences and facilities for the accomplishment of its important work.

It is

Salt:m. April, 1895.