Mary E. Wetherwax..... Troy Fannie Whaley.. Lydia A. White.... Mina Williams.. Jay Wilsey.... .... Wing's Station. Syracuse Mount Vision.. Schenevus ... Albany.. Ovid... .... ... Otsego. Montgomery. Otsego. Otsego. Rensselaer. Rensselaer. Dutchess. Saratoga. Dutchess. Maine. Onondaga. Otsego. Montgomery. Otsego. Montgomery. Otsego. Otsego. Washington. Albany. Seneca. Bethlehem Centre...... Albany. GRADUATES OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH TERM, AND THE SUBJECTS OF THEIR ESSAYS. Mary C. Alexander.. Albany..... The Age of Progress. Frank M. Bogert..... Rockland ... The Electric Telegraph. .... .... Books. Hattie Donaldson.... Rensselaer.. Recollections. .... The Spectroscope. Mary E. Dumont..... Rensselaer.. Never too Old to Learn. .... .... John Dryden. Commerce. Susie A. Haight..... Dutchess .... ...... Cassie A. Ketcham... Ulster ...... Twilight. Helen M. Kyle...... Albany. Authors. Carrie E. Lane....... Schoharie... The Sun. Freddie A. Mallory.. Albany. ..... ..... Reaping. Julia F. Mallory..... Albany.. What is before us? Sarah C. Myers...... Albany..... Life's Mission. ...... Sarah A. Perry . . . . Albany. Chester H. Sample... Seneca ..... ..... ..... A Pleasant Trip. Originality. .. Object of Life. ..... Georgia Swezey Dutchess ..... Cornelia Teachout.... Saratoga Thinking. ... Ella Tompkins..... .. Rensselaer.. Shakespeare. ...... Mental Growth. Carrie S. Winne..... Albany..... Influence. GRADUATES OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH TERM, AND THE SUBJECTS OF THEIR ESSAYS. Sarah A. Alexander.. Albany..... Association. S. Elizabeth Arnold.. Washington. Unconscious Influence. Abbie Ayer......... Rensselaer.. Common Sense. Martha J. Becker..... Schoharie... The Elizabethan Age. Frances E. Bell...... Sullivan ... Sowing. Agnes L. Bromley.... Onondaga... Types. J. Arthur Brown.... Sullivan .... Truthfulness. Martha Calkins...... Saratoga.. Mary Calkins........ Saratoga.... Mathematics. Mary Callaghan...... Saratoga.. An Undiscussed Power. Lydia C. Chase...... Columbia ... Flowers. Charles W. Dayton... Delaware ... Attention.. William B. Davidson. Chenango... Lessons from Biography. Bruce Dodge...... Mary Emigh.. .... Genesee Energy. ... Sylvester Finch...... Columbia... Frivolous Words. James H. Forman.... Putnam . Anticipations. .... Nat. Science in Com. Schools. .... Maude A. Haight.... Dutchess.... Charles J. Majory.... .... ..... Charles Lamb. Punctuality. Retrospect and Prospect. British Opinions. Rensselaer.. Oral Teaching. Rensselaer.. The Teacher not Made. Harriette Mathews... Fulton . .... Recollections. W. Buck'gham Matson, Rensselaer.. The Aurora. Victoria Matteson.... Chautauqua. The Invisible World. Margaret Nixon ..... Rensselaer.. Lilacs. Fannie E. Noyes..... Saratoga .. Alberta Parkhill..... Steuben Annah Parkhill...... Steuben .... .... Language. Extremes. Alex. W. Patterson.. St. Lawrence, Elocution. Mary M. Patterson... Saratoga.... Sir Philip Sidney. Addie Vernooy...... Queens .... Thought.. Early Impressions. Geo. W. Wentworth.. Otsego ..... The Ballot. DESIGN OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL. The design of the Institution is to furnish well qualified teachers for the public schools of the State of New York. Students receive a thorough drilling in all the branches which they will be called to teach, and in such other studies as experience has shown to be best adapted to discipline and develop the mind. Those who train the minds of others should themselves have well trained minds. Besides receiving from the Faculty instruction in the art of teaching, the pupils are, at the proper stages of their progress, required to teach in the Model and Primary Schools, for a term of nine weeks, under the supervision and criticism of the Superintendent, and the teachers of the Normal School. The course of instruction and practice occupies two years. The year is divided into two terms of twenty weeks each. The students are divided into four classes. These, for purposes of recitation, are subdivided into as many sections as circumstances may require. COURSE OF STUDIES. JUNIOR CLASS-FIRST TERM. Arithmetic, Algebra, English Grammar, Geography, Physiology, Map Drawing, Penmanship. JUNIOR CLASS-SECOND TERM. Algebra continued, Higher Arithmetic, Elocution, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Rhetoric, English Grammar, Geometry, History of the United States. SENIOR CLASS-FIRST TERM. Geometry continued, Ethics, Natural Philosophy continued, Astronomy, Science of Government, Higher Algebra, the English Language, History, Mental Philosophy. SENIOR CLASS-SECOND TERM. English Literature, Mental Philosophy, Trigonometry and Surveying, Chemistry, Geology, Book-keeping, Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Analogy. Composition and Vocal Music receive prominent attention throughout the course. TERMS OF ADMISSION. All candidates for admission to the school must furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character. Candidates for admission to the lowest class must, if ladies, be not less than sixteen years of age, and, if gentlemen, not less than eighteen. They must pass a satisfactory examination in Spelling, Reading, Writing, Geography, Arithmetic and English Grammar, and must subscribe a declaration that their object in connecting them, selves with the school is to prepare themselves for the work of instruction in the public schools of the State. Those who desire to enter on an advanced standing, must, in addition to the examination above mentioned, pass a satisfactory examination in all the studies which have been pursued by the class to which they seek admission. Those who would avail themselves of the best advantages afforded by the institution, should take the whole course. A large part of the instruction given is oral. Much of this must be lost to those entering an advanced class. If any part of the course be omitted, it should be the latter part. PERSONS ENTITLED TO ADMISSION. Each county is en titled to twice as many pupils as it has representatives in the Assembly. Students are appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on recommendation of the School Commissioners, subject to the required examination. When the quota of a county is filled, candidates having the proper qualifications will be appointed to fill vacancies in the representation of other |