The Normal College of New York City.

er cities in the world can give at any price, qualifying them for the practical duties of life as well as for the teacher's profession; and excelling proficiency is further rewarded with medals, etc., given by patrons of the institution. A gold medal and a silver medal are annually awarded to the best students of German; a silver medal and a bronze medal for excellence in methods of teaching; a gold medal for physiology; a gold medal for Latin; two money prizes for French, and one for physics.

The catholicity and toleration crystallized in the country's Constitution prevail in the college; about two hundred of the students are Jewesses, and a black face, framed in curly African hair, may occasionally be seen at the recitations. The capacity of the college being strained, and the directors being perplexed as to the means by which the number of students may be regulated, the writer asked President Hunter why candidates for admission are not required to express an intention to become teachers at the time of their graduation, no such engagement being now exacted, and many of the students entertaining no intention whatever of earning a livelihood in the scholastic profession. It was Mr. Hunter's opinion that such a measure would simply lead to deception, and would exclude many girls of the better classes who are now enrolled, and whose influence upon some of the other girls is refining and otherwise beneficial; the most feasible plan that occurred to him being the lengthening of the course from three to four years, an amendment that would undoubtedly advance the standard of graduates and exclude candidates who are not thorough in their aims.

First Grade. First Year. First Term. — Latin; outlines of ancient history; German or French; algebra, in simple equations, involution, evolution, and radicals; plane geometry.

Second Grade. First Year. Second Term. — The studies are the same as in the first term, physics, including heat, electricity, and mechanics, being substituted for algebra, and music, drawing, penmanship, and English composition being added.

Third Grade. Second Year. First Term. — Easy selections from classic authors in Latin; outlines of modern history; French or German reader and conversation; algebra, in quadratics; physics, in light amid sound; music, drawing, English composition, and botany.

Fourth Grade. Second Year. Second Term. — Latin extracts from Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; rhetoric and English composition; German or French conversation; mathematic and descriptive astronomy; notation, nomenclature, and atmospheric elements