SUMMER SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, RACINE, WIS. NINTH YEAR begins on Monday, July 6 for a six weeks' course. German, French, Italian and Spanish taught according to the Natural Method, by experienced native teachers. No place in the United States better adapted for summer work. On Lake Michigan. Low temperature. For further information and programs, address, Prof. HENRY COHN, Director School of Languages, Central Music Hall, Chicago, Ill. After July 1, Racine, Wis. 5 KINDERGARTEN SUPPLIES. Primary Aids, For Illustrated Catalogues and Price THE HILTON BRADLEY CO., 11-tt Springfield, Mass. OR THOS CHARLES, Western Agent, 335 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Richmond Normal School, RICHMOND, INDIANA. A School for Thorough Professional Preparation of Teachers. THE SPRING TERM will open April 12, 1886. SPECIAL REVIEW CLASSES will be formed in the Common Branches and in Book Keeping for those teachers who can attend but one term, and who wish to make a review of the studies they are required to teach. METHODS OF TEACHING will be given with each subject as the work proceeds. IN PEDAGOGY, CR SCIENCE OF TEACHING, a class will be formed, reciting daily through the term. The value of this work can hardly be over-estimated. IN NATURAL SCIENCE, work will be given with special reference to aiding teachers in making their instruction in these subjects thorongh, interesting and profitable. Persons who desire, and who are prepared to do so, will be admitted to the regular classes of the school, to take such work as those classes may be doing. VALUABLE LECTURES on Educational and other subjects will be given at intervals throughout the term. A SUMMER TERM of Six Weeks will begin June 21, 1886. The work of this term will be similar to that outlined for the Spring Term, in the Common Branches, Methods, and Science of Teaching. REVIEW FOR STATE EXAMINASION. If twenty or more persons apply, we shall arrange, this term, for a class in the Higher Studies, preparatory to State Examinotion. Teachers who desire such work will please write us promptly. We shall put forth every effort to make this a most profitable feature. EXPENSES. Good Boarding in clubs can be had at from $2.00 to $2.50 per week, including good room, table board, fuel, and lights. In private families, $300 to $4 co per week. Tuition-Spring Term (10 weeks), $10 co; Summer Term, for Common School work, $6 oo; for State Examination Review, $9 oo. Persons proposing to attend will please notify us in time to have boarding arrangements secured for them. Come and spend a pleasant and profitable spring and summer in one of the pleasantest cities in Indiana. 4-It Address, CYRUS W. HODGIN, Principal. THE SOUTHERN INDIANA NORMAL COLLEGE, MITCHELL, INDIANA, Spring Term Opens March 30, 1886. Challenges comparison with any similar Institution in Indiana. Summer Term Opens June 8, 1886, The school is now enjoying a remarkable run of success. The faculty has been greatly strengthened and new equipments added. THE NEW ARRANGEMENT OF TWO PRINCIPALS has proven superlatively advantageous to every interest of the school. All grades of regular and review classes will be sustained. Superior advantages in every department. At least fifty daily recitations; a fine line of newly selected apparatus; splendid library free; only the best of normal teachers employed. Private board and furnished room in best families, only $2.50 per week; clubbing much cheaper. Tuition for Sping term, $8.00; for Summer term, $6.00. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Write for free catalogue giving particulars. Address, 2-17 W. E. LUGFNBEEL, NEW PUBLICATIONS. RAY'S TABLETS, Test Examples in Arithmetic. CAN BE USED WITH ANY ARITHMETIC. Cheaper than Blank Tablets or Paper. Introduction Price $1 per doz. Tablets. Single Tablets, by mail, post-paid, 10c. Ray's Tablets consist of from 32 to 48 pp. each, in neat form, each leaflet having printed at the head from five to ten problems. 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