St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-09-13
For the st Charles City mtclligcncer
Iowa State University.
NORMAL DEPARTMENT.
FLOYD, Sept. 9Th, 1860.

=" WI tHe b'''"' vi t"S Souity anu
not personolly for me. ! suggest that
when your Board of Education meets
again, you suggest some plan by
which Editors shall receive some re-
Enumeration for such services. Much
of the business of school officers should
be made public, far the benefit Of tie
public; hence they are under obliga-
tions to pay for it.
What wish to make public now, is
in relation to the Normal Department
of the Iowa State University" "a
called the Normal De-
partmcnt, has been established in the
University for the express purpose of
educating Tcachcrs.'
ADMISSION.
Candidates for admission arc re.
CURED to sustain an examination in
Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, Elc-
mcntary Grammar, Geography and
Arithmetic, through compound num-
bcrs and vulgar fractions, They must
be, if male, at least II; and if fc.
males, Is years of age. All pupils,
on their admission to the Normal De
partmcnt, are required to sign dec
laration of their intention to engage
in the business Of Teaching in the
schools Of this State.
BY resolution of the Board of
Trustees, each County Superintendent
has the right to recommend two per-
sons from his County, who shall be
received actthom charge for tuition. 9th
crs will be received on the payment
of q fee Of five dollars per session.
COURSE OF STUDIES.
The following are the studies pur-
sued i'll the normal department. From
two, to two and half years would be
required to complete the whole course !;
but students prepared to sustain an
examination in some studies of the
course, may complete it in less time /:
LIST. Elementary sounds of the Lam
gnagc-NoRMAL CHART.
End. Reading.
3rd Spelling, Definition and knaly.
sis of Words.
4th. Drawing and Penmanship.
5th. Descriptive Geography and
Map Drawing-McNALLy's.
9th. Physical Geography - WAR,
REN's.
7lh Mathematical Geography and
use of Globcs-LECrUREs.
Sth History of the United States
WIrLARD's.
9th. Englisl, Grammar, including
Analysis and Synthcsis.
10th. Composition Writing
llth. Rhetoric and Criticism -
/ QUAcKENBos'
18th. Intellectual, or Oral Arith
mctlc-SToDpARp's.
/ 18Th. Written rithmctic-DAvIEs
PRAcTGcAL.
! l4th. Higher Arithmetic Dawes
UNIVERSITY.
18th. Elementary Algebra-DAvIEs'
10th. Higher Algebra-DAvIEs' Uni
vERsIry.
18th. Gcometry-DAvIEs' UNIVERSE
/ TY.
18th. Anatomy, Physiology, and
! lygicnC--lIooKER d Cutters.
/ 10Th. National Philosophy-PARK.
Frs.
Goth. Moral Scicnce-WAy1Ayn's.
2lst. Intellectual Philosophy-WAY-
LAMBS.
22d. Constitution of the United
/ States.
23d. Constitution and School Laws
Of Iowa
oath. Theory and Art of Teaching
-PAGE's AND LECTURES.
25th. Practice in Teaching in the
Model School.
Lectures on subjects connected with
education and the art of teaching, are
frequently given.
The teachers of the Normal Depart
mcnt have the use of the apparatus be-
longing to the University, and text
books arc furnished to the pupils with
out cost.
MODEL SCHOOL.
A Model School, composed of pu-
pills Of the ages usually found in the
public schools, and under the superin-
tendence of an experienced teacher,
is connected with this department.
Each student before graduating, is re-
quired to spend from two to four
weeks i'm the Model SrhnoI os, taacL-