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FROM STEAM PRESS OF WEED, PARSONS & CO., PUBLIC PRINTERS.

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THE DISTRICT SCHOOL JOURNAL is published monthly, and is devoted exclusively to the promotion of

Popular Education.

EDWARD COOPER, EDITOR.

[No. 1.

ments, are to pay no regard to the political opinions of the applicants. The selections should be made with reference to the moral worth and abilities of the candidates. Decided preference ought to be given to those who, in the judgment of the superintendents, give the highest promise of becoming the most effi

TERMS. Single copies 50 cents; seven copies $3 00; twelve copies $5 00, twenty-five copies $10 00, payable always in advance. All letters and comin ictions intended for the District School Jour-cient teachers of common schools. It is also desirable

nal, should be directed to the Editor, Syracuse, N. Y., Post Paid.

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The provisions of the act of the Legislature, passed May 7, 1844, "For the establishment of a Normal School," require the Executive Committee to present to the Regents" a detailed report" of the progress, condition and prospects of the school. In obedience to this requisition, it is designed in this report to give such an account of the affairs of the school, as will make the Regents thoroughly acquainted with its regulations, management and actual condition.

that those only should be appointed who have already a good knowledge of the common branches of study, and who intend to remain in the school until they graduate.

4. As the pupils entering the school are required to sign a declaration, that it is their intention to devote and that their sole object in resorting to the Normal themselves to the business of teaching district schools, School, is the better to prepare themselves for this important duty; therefore, it is expected of the superintendents that they shall select such as will sacredly fulfill their engagements in this particular.

5. Pupils once admitted to the school will have the right to remain until they graduate, unless they forfeit that right by voluntarily vacating their place, or by improper conduct.

It is due to the superintendents to state, that in general, great judgment and care have been displayed in the selection of pupils, and is believed that in most cases, strict regard has been paid to the above regulations.

Inasmuch, however, as some of the counties failed in sending to the school their full proportion of pupils, and as it was deemed important that the school should afford its advantages to as large a number as possible, the following additional regulation was passed and sent to the county and town superintendents in the month of September last:

"In the selection of pupils, preference is always to be given to those who reside in your own county; but if there are no suitable persons within your county who wish to avail themselves of the advantages of the school, the superintendents may then select the residents of other counties in this State, who may apply, provided they bring satisfactory evidence that they are suitable candidates."

Upon entering the school, all the pupils are required to sign a declaration of their intention to devote themselves to the business of teaching district schools, and that there sole object in resorting to the Normal School is, the better to prepare themselves for that important duty.

By a regulation of the committee, which has been approved by your honorable body, the number of students who may at any one time be admitted to the school, is limited to 256, each county having the privilege of sending twice as many pupils as it has members in the Assembly. The selection of the pu- The classification of the students upon their first pils is entrusted to the county and town superintend-coming to the school, is found to be an exceedingly ents in each county, the following directions being difficult duty; that it may be properly made, every sent to them, to govern them in making their choice: student is subjected to a rigorous examination, and 1. That the appointments in each county should be then all are classed according to their attainments and made at a meeting of the county and town superin- abilities. These introductory examinations afford the tendents, called by the county superintendents for that strongest argument in favor of the establishment of the purpose. Normal School, proving that its course of training was needed to elevate the profession of the teacher, and to fit him for the discharge of his duties. Four-fifths of the pupils of the school have been already engaged in

2. Females sent to the school must be sixteen years of age, and males eighteen.

3. The superintendents, in making their appoint

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