STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS FOR MINNESOTA

WINONA, MOORHEAD, MANKATO AND ST. CLOUD.

These schools comprise a thorough course of Professional Study, with practice in the Model Schools under the careful direction and criticism of experienced teachers. They are well furnished with libraries and apparatus for thorough courses in Literature and Natural Science.

Calendars for 1890-91.

Entrance Examinations, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 28 and 29, 1890.
Term begins, Monday, September 1, 1890.

Second Quarter begins, Monday, November 3, 1890.

Holiday Recess begins, Saturday, December 20, 1890.
Session Resumed, Monday, January 5, 1891.
First Term ends, Friday, January 16, 1891.

Holiday Vacation from Friday, December 19, 1890, to Tuesday, January 6, Entrance Examinations, Monday, January 19, 1891.

Term begins, Monday, January 19, 1891.
Fourth Quarter begins, Monday, March 23, 1891.
Commencement, Wednesday, May 27, 1891

ST. CLOUD.
FIRST TERM, 18 WEEKS.

Entrance Examinations, August 28, 1890.
Work of the Term begins, September 1.
End of First Quarter, October 24.
First Term ends, December 23.

SEOOND TERM, 20 WEEKS.
Entrance Examinations, January 8, 1891.
Work of the Term begins, January 9.
End of the Third Quarter, March 13.
Second Term ends, May 27.

HOLIDAY VACATION.
Begins at noon, December 23, 1890.
*Closes at 8.30 a. m., January 8, 1891.

School Officers desiring to engage teachers, and all persons wishing informatian will be promptly answered or receive catalogue upon application to any one of the following: By order of the State Normal Board, D. L. KIEHLE, Secretary.

PRES. EDWARD SEARING, Mankato, Minn.
PRES. JOSEPH CARHART, St. Cloud, Minn.

ALPHABET CARDS.

Superintendent Cook, in his School-Room Guide, says: "Children just learning to read and spell can profitably and pleasantly spend one or two of the study hours of the day with the alphabet cards. The teacher takes the scissors and clips the cardboard into squares of equal size, each containing one letter. Each child's box

should have several alphabets in it, so that any desired letter may be easily found. The words of the spelling lesson and the new words of the reading lesson may be written on the board, and the pupils required to reproduce them on their desks. With those a little older, each may be shown a picture and required to spell out on his desk, without help, the name of each object to be seen in the picture. Still later they may spell out a story made up of incidents suggested by the picture."

Each card contains 2 sets of capitals, 114 small letters, 23 punctuation points. and two sets of figures.

The Alphabet Cards will be sent by mail post paid for

To School Boards who will kindly favor me with their correspondence, I will take pleasure in showing that the rawest kind of raw materials may be put into artistic forms by thoughtful arrangement, and that the most elaborate treatment may still fail for want of proper proportions.

During the past year various boards, in this and surrounding states, have been satisfactorily served, with the additional gratification of having the balance of the building fund on the right side of the ledger.

I am better prepared than ever to serve you equally as well, and it will cost you but two cents to learn what I can do for you. Shall I not hear from you?

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