Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-10
National Normal School,
LEBANON, WARREN CO., o.
EXPENSES Including Tuition, Table
Board, PIainlY-Furnished Room, and
Book Rent 81 per week; by Self
Boarding, So per week.
The Reason eg6y this Institution has be-
come so Popular.

l. 1t is sustained solely by the skill
and energy of the teachers, and not by
endowments donated for sectarian pur-
poses, or by State appropriations for po-
litical influence.
2. The teachers are selected for their
peculiar fitness for the places they hold,
and no teacher is retained who does not
give entire satisfaction to the classes I'M
der his charge.
g.. Every student feels that all the
teachere are working for his interest and
advancement; hence nearly all students
influence their friends to come and enjoy
the same advantages.
4. Most students are convinced, after
trying this school and comparing it with
others, that they can accomplish at least
twice as much for themselves here in the
same length of time as at any other in
stitution.
5. Freedom from sectarian bias and
restraint promotes a healthy religious ac-
tivity, making the voluntary attendance
on regular religious exercises almost
universal. Another result of this free
dom is a daily prayer-meeting, sustained
by the students with great interest, and
with increasingly hopeful results.
6. Both sexes enjoy equal rights and
privileges. The entire freedom from re-
straint in social intercourse so generally
de precated or denounced in other insti-
t~utions, is found by the experience ofsiX-
teen years to promote the physical health
and moral purity of both sexes; while.
at the same time, we rely especially on
this feature to sustain good order, good
feeling, and earnest work in every de-
partment.
z. The large attendance (the average
term attendance being over 500), enables
us to maintain a wide range ofrecitations
and drills. so that all who enter here al
any time can find classes to suit them in
nearly all subjects.
s. The methods of instruction and
drill are so much more thorough-going
practical and objective than in most
other institutions, that our pupils, for the
most part, make an immediate success in
whatever business they undertake after
leaving here.
8. The large majority of teachers
trained here find immediate employment
with good positions; and, what is better
have calls to still better places.
10. The spirit of this school is that OF
hard work and rigid economy. The spirit
ofcaste, extravaganza and show, finds no
place amongst us.
IL. Every arrangement is made by
the principal to diminish the expenses OF
students in board, in books, in stationery
and other items, from which many Other
institutions derive their greatest profits
II. The management and government
having the moral support and hearty
sympathy of the large majority of the
students, Is carried on without any en-
acted laws. 1t is found to be immeasur.
ably better to win any individual cases
of irregularity than to trammel the large
majority of good, earnest students witt
rules and regulations required only BY
the few.
ID. The statements in our catalogue
are found by those who come here to b.
reliable, and they gladly send then
abroad, corroborating and Strengthening
these statements.
Catalogues giving the particulars vii
be sent to all who apply for them.
"A. HOLBROOK,
PrinoiOal