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State Normal University.

This institution, provided for by an act of
the last Illinois legislature, will be opened
at Bloomington On the 9th of October. By
circular from c. E. Hovey, the principal,
we observe the following requirements are
| laid down for candidates for admission
Candidates are required to be, if males,
not less than II, and if females, not less
than 16 years # age. To produce certih-
cate of good moral character, signed by some
resnonsible person. To sign declaration of
| their intention to devote themselves to school
( teaching in this State. To pass satisiac-
! tory examination, before the proper officers,
/ in reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, ge-
I ography and the elements OF English Gram
mar.
Tuition and text books will be free to all
students appointed under the following pro-
vision Of the statute.
81 Each county within the State shall
be entitled to gratuitous instruction for one
pupil in said Normal University, and each
Representative district shall be entitled to
gratuitous instruction for number of pupils
equal to the number Of Representatives in
said district, to be chosen in the following
manner: The School Commissioner in each
county shall receive and register the names
of all applicants for admission to said Nor
NAL University, and shall present the same
to the County Court; or, in counties acting
/ under township organization, to the Board
of Supervisors which said County Court
or Board Of Supervisors, as the case may be,
shall, together with the School Commission
err, examine all applicants so presented IN
such manner as the Board Of Education may
direct. and from the number Of such as shall
! be found to possess the requisite qualitica-
tons, such pupils shall be selected by lot !;
and in Representative districts composed of
more than one county the School Comm!s-
sioner and County Judge, or the School
Commissioner and Chairman Of the Board
of Supervisors in counties acting under
! township organization, as the case may be,
Of the several counties composing such re-
preventative districts shall meet at the Clerk S
Office of the County Court Of the oldest
county, and from the applicants so present
ed to the County Court or Board OF Super
visors of the several counties represented,
and found TO possess the requisite qua.iiica-
tons, shall select by lot the number of pu-
pills to which said district is entitled. The
Board of Education shall have discretionary
power, If any candidate does not sign and
file with the Secretary of the Board 4 de-
claration that he or she will teach in the
public schools within the State in case that
engagements can be secured by reasonable
efforts. to require such candidate to provide
for the payment of such fees for tuition as
the Board may prescribe.
In conformity with the above, application
for admission TO the school should be made
to the several County School Commission
ers, and the 18th Of September is suggested
as the day for the examination Of applicants.
OF course the officers having this matter in
charge can appoint any other time they sec
fit. AL students not provided for by the
statute will be charged tuition. Students
are expected TO be present on the frs. day
Of the session.