Student Teacher to Master Teacher




The Shame of the Nation


The Normal College of New York City, continued


A Demonstration of Geometry.

A Demonstration of Geometry.


in chemistry; music, drawing, geology, and mineralogy.

Fifth Grade. Third Year. First Term — Third Book of Virgil; English language and literature; German or French; electricity, galvanism, and magnetism in physics; astronomy, music, drawing, and zoology; review of subjects prescribed for the primary and grammar schools, and the methods of teaching them.

Sixth Grade. Third Year. Second Term — Virgil continued; intellectual philosophy and the theory of teaching; English language, literature, and composition; general review of French or German grammar, with conversation and translations; general review of physics; music, drawing, and physiology; review of subjects prescribed in primary and grammar grades for common schools, and practice in the model school under critic teachers of experience.

As we have already said, at the close of services in the chapel, one of the great divisions remained for a lesson in vocal music, while the other passed out for review in rudimentary subjects, such as spelling, grammar, and arithmetic, and for physical training in the calisthenium.

atching them introspectively as they filed out through the corridors on the day of our visit, we could scarcely refrain from applause, so admirably precise were their movements, several hundred behaving with the perfect unanimity before noticed, which was almost machine-like. Here were girls with latent mischief twinkling unmistakably in their eyes; girls of the mercurial volatility



Interior of the Chapel.

Interior of the Chapel.



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