Faculty.

Samuel Spahr Laws, LL. D., President of the University, Professor of Metaphysics.

Mrs. Thos. K. Sudborough, (Resigned) Dean, Professor of Pedagogics.

Joseph Ficklin, Ph. D., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy.

Paul Schweitzer, Ph. D.,

Professor of Chemistry.

Wm. A. Cauthorn, A. M., Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

S. M. Tracy, M. S., Professor of Botany and Entomology.

David R. McAnally, Jr., A. M., Professor of English.

Michael M. Fisher, A. M., D. D., LL. D., Professor of Latin.

A. F. Fleet, A. M., Professor of Greek.

James Shannon Blackwell, Ph. D., Professor of Modern Languages.

Mrs. O. A. Carr, Principal of Ladies Department and Adjunct Professor of English.

Conrad Diehl, Professor of Art.

Woodson Moss, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.

Benjamin Franklin Thomas, Ph. D., Professor of Physics.

J. W. Spencer, B. A. Sc., A. M., Ph. D., (Gott.), Professor of Zoology.

J. C. Jones, A. M., Assistant Professor of Languages.

The following is the report of the Normal Department of the University for the session of 1882-3:

Enrolled by semesters:

First Semester.

Second Semester.

As in former years, I desire to commend very heartily the earnestness [unclear: and] courteous demeanor of the students connected with this department, and to [unclear: express] my satisfaction with the general results of their work. The new system of rigid [unclear: entrance] examinations, while reducing the number of students, adds, in every [unclear: direction], to the efficiency of the Normal College, securing for its students greater [unclear: manumit] of mind and more extended scholarship.

Conditions of Admission to the Normal School.

No student shall be admitted to any class of the Normal College until he [unclear: shall] have had recorded to his credit, on the books of the University, a passing grade of [unclear: Gramm] on a scale of 100 in the following subjects, viz.: English, [including [unclear: Gramme] Spelling and Reading,] Arithmetic, Geography and United States History. [unclear: This] passing grade may be obtained either by regular work in the academic classes, or [unclear: his] the case of new students, by special examinations, which examinations will, in [unclear: all] cases, be under the direction of the heads of those departments to which the [unclear: subject] above mentioned respectively belong.

Students may, upon satisfactory examination, be admitted to advanced [unclear: standing] in the department, under the general rule of the Faculty governing promotions.

Degrees Granted by the Normal College.

Students are graduated in two distinct Normal courses, one academic, and [unclear: the] other elementary.

Academic Normal Degree (Pe. B.)

The higher degree, that of Bachelor of Pedagogics, is conferred upon regular graduates of the University in any one of the four academic courses who supplement their academic work by two semesters of Normal Instruction. Students graduating from this course are qualified by the accurate and extended study upon which their professional work rests, to take positions in the secondary and higher schools of the page 74 State or to superintend the work of others. It is hoped that all students [unclear: graduating] from the University, with the intention of teaching, will so adjust their studies as [unclear: to] connect themselves, during the last year of their stay in Columbia, with the [unclear: Normal] department. The extended course of academic study leading to this degree is [unclear: shown] in the University Table of Synchronistic Curricula.

The work in Pedagogics corresponds with that laid down for the Senior Year [unclear: of] the elementary course, which see.

The conditions of entrance to Normal classes, so far as the passing grade [unclear: of] eighty in elementary subjects is concerned, apply to academic graduates [unclear: equally] with other students.

Degree of Master of Pedagogics (Pe. M.)

The third degree granted by the Normal College is that of Master of [unclear: Pedagogies] (Pe. M), "the highest and most scholarly degree of the University." This degree is conferred only after due examinations in the five schools of science, and in any four of the five schools of language.

State Certificates.

A practical business advantage is afforded to graduates of the Normal Department of the University in their receiving from the State Superintendent of Public Schools, State Certificates, entitling them to teach, upon proper contract with the local board, in any county of the State without re-examination. The language of the State Superintendent on this point is as follows:

"To graduates from your full course. I will issue State Certificates (on parchment [unclear: and] permanent). To those from your lower course (the Pe. P's), a special for three years."

This secures to all our graduates, about to enter upon their professional duties, legal certificates, upon which valid contracts may be made with Boards of [unclear: Director?,]

Positions for Graduates.

While we are unable to promise positions to our graduates, we make every [unclear: effort] to assist them in establishing themselves in their chosen professions. The reports which we receive of the work of our alumni are most encouraging; they seem to [unclear: indicate] that our students leave the University with a laudable ambition to place [unclear: them selves], through earnest and well directed effort, in the foremost ranks of the [unclear: profession].

Fully three-fourths of all graduates of the department, since it has been [unclear: under] my charge, have taught either in this or other States during at least a part of the present year, and at remunerative salaries.

With the purpose of placing Boards of Directors in communication with [unclear: teachers,] we pay special attention to all letters of inquiry from persons desiring to secure the services of competent instructors. Many of our students are teachers of considerable experience, so that suitable selections may be made from their number for nearly all grades of schools.

Among the Books used in the Department for study or reference are the [unclear: following:]

• Pedagogics as a Science, Rosenkranz.
• American Journal of Education, Barnard.
• Encyclopædia des Erziehungs und Unterrichtswesens, K. A. Sohmid.page 75
• Thoughts on Education, Locke.
• Emile ou l'Education, Rousseau.
• Works of Pestalozzi.
• Circulars of Information, National Bureau of Education.
• Reports of Commissioner of Education.
• Reports of School Systems of particular towns and States, American and Foreign.
• Reports of Proceedings, National Educational Association.
• Cyclopedia of Education, Kiddle and Schem.
• Free School Systems of the United States, Adams.
• Old Greek Education, Mahaffy.
• History of Educational Theories, Browning.
• Educational Reformers, Quick.
• History of Education, Hailman.
• School Economy, Wickersham.
• School Management, Baldwin.
• Methods of Teaching, Swett.
• Manual of Object Teaching, Calkins. School District Counsellor, Stevenson.
• Education, Spencer.
• Education as a Science, Bain.
• Missouri University Lectures.
• Middle Ages, Hallam.

Methods of Instruction.

Instruction in the Normal Department is given principally in the form of leetures, upon which are based discussions by the class of the points presented; the comparative maturity of mind shown by our students of advanced standing and their earnestness, render these discussions of the greatest value. They cover the practical as well as the theoretical side of pedagogy. A primary aim of all work in this department is the development of independent thought, and students are encouraged to advance frankly and freely their own opinions, even where differing materially from those ordinarily held. Incorrect views and crude opinions are rectified with comparative ease through such discussions.

Rosenkranz's "Pedagogics as a System," has been used with success as the basis of discussion in scientific pedagogy.

The following is a Synopsis of the work in Pedagogics. It will be observed that the work of the Senior Year is required of all candidates for graduation.

Course of Study in Pedagogics.

First Year.

Second Year.