c) Spend only ten weeks on the work of a given quarter, whether you do little or much in it; proceed then to the topics of the next quarter. d) Relieve the hour's work by as much variety as possible : first, reading and explaining something adapted to the capacity of your pupils; secondly, drawing out in a conversational manner the experience and information which your scholars already possess on the subject; thirdly, exhibiting the visible objects which you or the pupils have brought to illustrate the lesson, and requiring the pupils to notice and name the properties, qualities, parts and attributes; fourthly, never omitting to show by a synopsis on the black board what has been discussed in the lesson, its classification and relation. e) Require short weekly compositions of the pupils above the fifth grade, in which they express in their own language their ideas on the subjects treated in the oral lessons. All Recitations are conducted with special reference to the modes of teaching the branch of study under consideration. Teaching Exercises in all studies are required in the Fourth and Junior Classes to be given to the Class, The Teaching Exercises indicated in the Middle and Senior Classes are before the whole school. HIGH SCHOOL. GENERAL COURSE. JUNIOR OR FIRST YEAR.-Algebra, English Analysis, Physical Geography, Latin, or German and Latin, Drawing. SECOND YEAR.-Geometry, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, Physiology, Latin or German, Book-keeping (optional). THIRD YEAR.—Trigonometry, or Natural History, Astronomy (optional), Manual of Art (optional), Universal History, Latin, or German, or French. SENIOR OR FOURTH YEAR.-Analytical Geometry and Calculus, or Review Mathematics (optional to girls), Shakespeare, History of English Literature, Latin, or German, or French, Mental and Moral Philosophy (optional to girls), Constitution U. S. (one quarter.) Music and Rhetoricals throughout the course. The Classical Course differs from the General only in the following particulars : Junior Year-Latin, instead of German and Latin. Second Year Greek, instead of Philosophy and Chemistry. Third Year Greek, instead of Trigonometry or Nat. Hist. Senior Year-Greek, instead of Philosophy. STUDY OF GERMAN. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. SEVENTH GRADE.-"Lessons on Objects," 1st, 2d and 3d quarters. General division of Subjects, and Time allowed. In schools in which Struebing's pictures are used instead of Schreiber's, a modification of the general division of subjects takes place. It is not supposed that the 7th grade can accomplish more than is contained on pages 9 to 51 of the guide accompanying the pictures. The teachers will modify or omit such parts of the lessons as are not adapted to the wants of our schools, for instance, § 2, 21, &c., of the Guide. In regard to the use of the pictures and the method of teaching, the Guide will be found to contain many valuable hints (see pages 7 and 41 of the Guide). In all lessons either the object itself or a picture of it must be used. Without this an object lesson does not deserve its name. Each teacher is required to use her own judgment in devising and writing out a plan for the arrangement of the sub-divisions, adapting it to the special conditions of the several schools. These exercises are conducted with regard to Orthoepy. Bad pronunciation, which pupils are very likely to have acquired before they are sent to school, is to be corrected and habits of distinct articulation to be established. Scholars are taught to distinguish between similar sounds: (ä, e, ö; ü, i; eu, ei, ai; b, p; g, k, ch; d, t, &c.) These exercises prepare them for the |