isua-isnscatalog-1890-1891-071

Description: 70 ANNUAL CATALOGUE.As a means of promoting still greater thoroughness on the
part of those nearing graduation from the school, the Board of
Trustees, by a recent action, requires, That all candidates for
graduation from the Normal School shall be required to hold a
county license to teach for a period of not less than two years

said license having been issued within the five years next pre¬
ceding the date of Commencement for the given year. Or that
such person shall receive a grade in an examination conducted
by the faculty, on the questions used in the county examination,
that would entitle them to a license for not less than two years,
if the examination were taken under a county superintendent.CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION.First. Sixteen years of age, if females, and eighteen, it
males.Second. Good health.Third. Satisfactory evidence of undoubted moral character.Fourth. A pledge that the applicant will, if practicable,
teach in the common schools of Indiana, a period equal to twice
that spent as a student in the Normal School.Fifth. A fair knowledge of the following subjects: Spelling,
Writing, Reading, English Grammar, Geography, United States
History, Physiology, and Arithmetic.TEXT-BOOKS.Students should bring with them such standard text-books as
they have, for the purpose of reference.A good dictionary is indispensable.The following text-books are in use in the school:Reed and Kelloggs Grammar, Whitneys Grammar, Hills
Elements of Composition and Rhetoric, Humkes School Reading,
Academic Dictionary, Scotts Development of Constitutional
Liberty, Johnstons American Politics, Myers General History,
Newbyw Number Science, Wentworths Geometry and Trigonom¬
etry, {SWentworths Algebra, Harkness Latin Grammar, Hark-
ness Ctesar and Cicero, Harkness Latin Composition, Virgils
Source: http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/33265
Collection: Indiana State University Archives

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