Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — Summer Normal Institute. [ARTICLE]

Summer Normal Institute.

The Jasper County Normal Institute will open in the Rensselaer Public School Building, J ily 18, 1887, and will continue five weeks. OBJECTS OF THE NORMAL INSTITUTE. (1.) The object of the Normal shall be to give the teachers of Jasper and adjoining counties an opportunity to thoroughly review the common school branches. (2.) To inculcate correct principles as to school government as well as th* impartation of knowledge. (3.) To form habits of regularity and punctuality in attendance. (4.) To encourage rapidity of work, clearness aud accuracy of expression and fidelity to duty. TUITION.—For lull term in advance, $4 50. Per week, $1 00. INSTRUCTORS. J. F. Warren, County Superintendent; F. W. Reubelt, Sup’t. Rensselaer Schools; Bailey Martin, Prin. Franklin High School ; A. O. Warren, teacher Rensselaer schools.

All teachers who expect to teach in Jasper county should make it convenient to attend the Normal during the entire term, as the work done will be of great value to them. The work will be performed in systematic, logical o’-der, each recitation to be a link in a continuous chain of academic work, which instruction, it is to be hoped, will be of incalculable value to them in their winter’s work in the schoolroom. Good board and comfortable rooms can be had in private families at from $2 50 to $3 00 per week. Rooms can be rented and arrangements made for students to board themselves, thereby greatly reducing expenses. The annual County Teachers’ Institute will be held, the week immediately following the close of the Summer Normal, and further announcement of which will be made in due season. If further information is desired call on or address

J. F. WARREN,

Sup’t. of Schools.

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