The Normal College of New York City.

magic, and was ready for occupation, $350,000 having been expended upon it. Over 1000 girls attended the first sessions, and its great capacity is now taxed to the utmost. It has four stories above the basement, and contains thirty recitation-rooms, two lecture-rooms, an art studio, a chapel with seats for 2000, a library, a calisthenium, two drying-rooms, six retiring-rooms for instructors, president's offices, and three great corridors, each fifteen feet wide.

The best criterion of its usefulness is the fact that of the 2300 teachers employed by the Board of Education, 2100 are women, eight or nine per cent. Of whom retire annually, and the college fills these vacancies with its graduates.

The faculty consists of Thomas Hunter, President, and Professor of Intellectual Philosophy; Arthur H. Dundon, Professor of Latin and English; Joseph A. Gillet, Professor of Physics and Chemistry; Charles A. Schlegel, Professor of German; Edward H. Day, Professor of Natural Science; and Eugene Aubert, Professor of French Language and Literature. Besides these, there are thirty instructors, including one tutor in methods of teaching and five in mathematics, twenty-eight of the thirty being women. The writer is particularly indebted for assistance to President Wood, of the Board of Education, whose work in its behalf entitles him to distinction as founder of the college, to President Hunter, and to Professor Aubert.

A dainty little manual, with a chocolate cover and gilt lettering, is issued for the government of the college; but the outside prettiness binds the formula of a martial discipline. Its tinted pages of creamy mildness give no idea of the severity of the text, which is both curt and imperative. Students must account for every minute of lateness or absence, and after an absence of one day they must not be permitted to re-enter their classes without a written permit from the president or lady superintendent; they must maintain single files, always taking the right-hand side in changing rooms; and they must not run in the halls or on the stairs, nor delay in passing out of the building. Unladylike conduct of any kind in the cars or stages on the part of a student is investigated by the lady superintendent, and may be punished by expulsion. Those students who are in the last or graduating year of the course are more carefully marked than the others, with a view to ascertaining their moral fitness for the work of teaching, and those who are found wanting are refused diplomas, even though the number of marks awarded to them reaches the necessary average. A Madcap Violet is not possible among the girls of the Normal College; but while strict obedience is enforced, they receive, without the smallest expense, such an education as very few oth-