The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-06-30
Schedule for the School Year 1902 1900.

Schedule for the School Year 1900 1900.
| From the Shiawassee School Journal.
Last year sent out schedule to the
district schools of the county, for the
purpose of securing uniformity in the
time of beginning and closing the
three terms of school during the year;
and good majority of the schools fol-
lowed that schedule.
After considering the various and
varying needs of the different parts of
the county, have arranged the follow
ing schedule for the coming year; and l
trust many more school boards will lay
aside old custom and act in harmony
with the general educational work of
our county.
| SCHEDULE.
| Fall term, two months, begins
September IL, closes November 8.
! Fall vacation, one week.
Winter term four months, begins
November 10, closes December % for
holiday vacation of two weeks; re.opens
January 8, closes March IS.
Spring vacation, two weeks
Spring term, two or three months,
begins April 2, closes May % or June
90.
| Those districts that have adopted the
village school schedule are already in
advance of the other district schools in
this regard, and | would not have them
conform to the above schedule, If
could.
The village school schedule is as fol-
lows:
Fall session, four months, begins
September 4, closes December 90
Holiday vacation, one or two weeks,
followed by three months session.
Spring vacation, one week, followed
by three months session.
No need to fear sudden attacks of cholera
nfantum, dysentery, diarrtea, or summer
complaint, IL you have DR.. Fowler's Extract
of Wild Strawberry in the medicine chest
Requirements for Teachers Certificates
From the Shiawassee School Journal.
Beginning with the August teachers
examination, the requirements for the
various grades of teachers certificates
will be as follows
For third grade not less than 10 per
cent will be accepted in grammar,
arithmetic, history, civil government,
geography, and reading, and not less
than IS per cent in any other branch;
for second grade, not less than than rs
per cent in the branches before named,
and not less than 70 per cent in any
other branch; for first grade, not less
than IS per cent in the branches
before named, and not less than 80
per cent in any other branch
Applicants for first and second
grades who pass in part of the branches
may re-write at the next examination
in those remaining.
Applicants for third grade who fail in
part of the branches must re-write in
all branches except those in which they
receive at least So per cent. Before
certificate will be granted to applicants
for third grade who have never taught,
they must furnish sufficient proof of
having read carefully and studiously,
page on Teaching" "Swett's Methods
of Teaching "White's School Manage
ment," or some other work on teaching
of equal merit; and they must also have
familiarized themselves with the gen.
eral principles of the estate Manuel
and Course of Study" The fol egoing
work is necessary in order to pass the
subject of theory and art of teaching
Such third grade applicants must also
possess the required knowledge of
school law, the same as all other appli-
cants for certificates.
Attendance or non attendance at the
teachers institutes and the teachers as
sociations held in the county during the
year next proceeding the examination,
will be taken into strict account in
granting certificates of any grade.
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Professor Russell on Michigan Marl-lands
| Professor L. c. Russell, of the geological
department of the University of Michi-
gan, has recently made an examination
of marl-lands of the southern part of
the state, and found remarkably favor
able conditions. The mari, mixed with
ordinary clay, is used in the manufac.
ture Of Portland cement, and Michigan
will evidently take leading place in
this industry. The mari occurs as a