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.