AIMS AND ADVANTAGES. 1. A thorough and practical knowledge of the branches is aimed at, and such as is especially adapted to Teachers' wants. Besides the most searching analysis of every subject, and the systematic arrangement of its principles and truths, and the entire mastery of subjects so presented and investigated, the plan of instruction necessarily involves every form of illustration that can be brought to bear on the respective branches. 2. Subjects will be taught rather than books, though certain text-books will be adopted aud used as such; yet in all the leading branches, the works of several of the best authors will be consulted and compared, and their relative merits discussed, that graduates may be better prepared to advise judiciously and intelligently as to the adoption of text-books in their own schools. 3. A COURSE OF PRACTICE in teaching is pursued in the several branches. The pupil takes the place of teacher, for the time being, and manages a class under the eye of the Principal. His errors are thus pointed out, and his excellencies commended. This course of PRACTICAL TRAINING in the several branches forms, more than any thing else, the prominent and distinctive feature of the Normal School. Every attention is given to the means and methods of organizing, managing, and governing unclassified or country district schools, as well as Graded or Union schools. 4. A course of lectures is delivered every session on School Management, designed more especially to prepare graduates to overcome or avoid the various difficulties which they meet in schools of their own. 5. SITUATIONS FURNISHED.-In answer to frequent applications for trained teachers, the Principal has had the satisfaction of furnishing many worthy and thorough-going young men and women with good situations in Union or Graded Schools, at salaries ranging from five hundred dollars to one thousand doilars per annum; also many others with temporary locations in District Schools, at one hundred to one hundred and eighty dollars per quarter. The demand for trained teachers is much greater than the supply; especially, for trained female teachers. By spending one or more terms under Normal instruction and training, teachers may expect to receive an immediate increase of wages of from twenty to firty per cent., besides enjoying the consciousness of increased usefulness. Certificates will be given to those who attend a term or more, and do not complete either course, but prove themselves worthy of confidence, as being able to teach and govern a school. BUSINESS EDUCATION. The great demand of the times is a thorough, practical, working, business education. To the Farmer, Mechanic, Physician, Lawyer and Teacher, a familiarity with the constantly improving methods of conducting business operations, is no less important than to the Merchant, the Railroad or Steamboat of ficer, or Banker. TIME REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE COURSE. To a pupil well acquainted with Proportion, Percentage, and English Grammar, eleven weeks are sufficient; and if the entire time of the pupil is devoted to Book-keeping and Penmanship, six or eight weeks may answer, though eleven weeks, in every case, can be most profitably applied to Book-keeping and collateral branches. SUPERIOR METHOD OF INSTRUCTION. The commercial colleges advertise “individual instruction.” If the pupil calculates how much individual instruction each of eighty or one hundred persons can obtain in a day from one or two teachers, he will see that individual instruction is the worst possible disposition of time, both for teacher and pupil, and that properly graded classes are indispensable to any really efficient system of instruction. He will also perceive that the wants and difficulties of individuals are met and overcome with vastly greater facility and certainty in class drill than in the individual system, laid aside years ago in all decent common schools, and yet boastfully pursued by commercial colleges. The assumption that any scholar is kept back" by class drill and practice is an evidence of ignorance or quackery. The inefficiency of the “individual method" of instruction is proven by the statement, that pupils in book-keeping are required to go through (that is. copy) fifty sets," imposing thus an amount of labor which, if properly applied, would give the pupil no: only a mastery of the science and art of book-keeping, but of Arithmetic. English Grammar, and Algebra besides. OPPORTUNITY FOR ADDITIONAL BRANCHES. A moment's consideration will convince any one, that the mere knowledge of book-keeping, however well acquired, will prove comparatively useless, unless the candidate for a situation can also frame an English sentence properly, and spell the words correctly; and, still further, that since commercial colleges do not give such instruction-or, if they do, extra charges and very indifferent. teachers are involved-they must be a failure, so far as a large class of pupils are concerned. Thus a Business Course in a Commercial College costs from $160 to $300. A more thorough and practical course than any Commercial College can give, in the Normal, costs from $63 to $115. SECURING SITUATIONS. Multitudes of graduates from commercial colleges, can be found in all parts of the country without situations, or engaged for their board, having learned that their commercial course, however much it may be spread in circulars, or puffed in the newspapers, is of little or no use, from the want of power to speak and write the English language correctly. Not a few graduates from the best of these colleges, have come here to prepare themselves, in good earnest, for the real claims of a business life. Pupils, having such fitness, can not fail of obtaining lucrative positions, sooner or later. They will most certainly win the confidence and respect of their employers, and thus speedily becoming necessary, can frequently dictate the amount of their own salaries. YOUNG MAN, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT AN EDUCATION. By the improved and efficient methods of training invented and practiced here, you can prepare yourself in two or three years for any position that yonr natural abilities and taste may render desirable; or you can obtain the elements of a good sound business education in two or three quarters. YOUNG WOMAN, this is the only institution in which the education of both sexes is carried on with equal advantage to both, and where the peculiar gifts and graces of each have fair scope for their proper development. Young Men, Young Women, all of you who expect to make your own way in the world, consider this: Any system of education must impart its own character more or less to its pupils. Will it not be well, then, to patronize an institution that lives and thrives on its own merits, rather than any one which relies on sectarian machinery to send it scholars, and on sectarian or State donations to pay the arrearages of an inefficient faculty. COME AND TRY THE SCHOOL. 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