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PRATT, STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS FOR MINNESOTA ARE ESTABLISHED AT WINONA, MOORHEAD, MANKATO AND ST. CLOUD. These schools comprise a thorough course of Professional Study, with practice in the Model Schools under the carefnl direction and criticism of experienced teachers. They are well furnished with libraries and apparatus for thorough courses in Literature and Natural Science. These schools graduate from two courses, the Elementary and the Advanced. Tuition Is Free to all persons who pledge themselves to teach Two Years in the State. Text Books Are Furnished at a rental of Three Dollars per Year. Provision is made in each School for Economic Living. Calendars for 1890-91. WINONA. FALL TERM, 10 WEEKS. Entrance Examinations, Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 1 and 2, 1890. Fall Term begins, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1890. Fall Term ends, Thursday, Nov. 6, 1890. WINTER TERM, 16 WEEKS. Entrance Examinations, Monday, Nov. 10, 1890. Winter Term begins, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1890. MANKATO. FIRST TERM. Entrance Examinations, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 28 and 29, 1890. Second Quarter begins, Monday, November 3, 1890. Holiday Recess begins, Saturday, December 20, 1890. First Term ends, Friday, January 16, 1891. Holiday Vacation from Friday, December 19, 1890, to Tuesday, January 6, Entrance Examinations, Monday, January 19, 1891. 1891. Winter Term ends, Thursday, March 5, 1891. Spring Term ends-Commencement-Thursday, May 28, 1891. Term begins, Monday, January 19, 1891. ST. CLOUD. Entrance Examinations, August 28, 1890. SEOOND TERM, 20 WEEKS. HOLIDAY VACATION. 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. IRWIN SHEPARD, Winona, Minn. PRES, LIVINGSTONE C. LORD, Moorhead, Minn. PRES. EDWARD SEARING, Mankato, Minn. O·T·A·N⋅Y: "When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil." T A N Y If you are called upon to select text-books for a class in Botany, it will be well to remember that the American Book Company's List is particularly rich in this branch. We publish and offer the botanical text-books of DR. ASA GRAY.-"How Plants Grow," "Lessons in Botany," Revised; PROF. J. D. HOOKER.-"Science Primer of Botany." DR. ALPHONSO WOOD.-"Lessons (Revised), New American Botanist and Florist, (including the preceding), Class Book of Botany, Plant Record (with or without check tablets), Etc., Etc. MISS ELIZA A. YOUMANS.-"First Book of Botany," "Second Book of Botany," "Descriptive Botany," Etc., Etc. |