suffice to state that this school has been subjected to the same examination as other schools in the city of like grade, and that it has never made less than eighty-five per cent. in the semi-annual examinations of primary schools held by the City Board of Education. This fact reveals a degree of proficiency on the part of the Training School not surpassed by any other primary school in the Department. Deprived of this experimental school, the Normal School would be wanting in one important requisite of success, and without its aid but few Normal graduates could ever aspire to any distinction as skillful instructors. To the Normal School the State even now looks for its regular supply of teachShould these instructors fail in any essential part of their professional duty, the children of our citizens must suffer the consequences of such failure. Upon the success of these teachers the Normal School rests its claims for public favor, whilst to the Training School, supported by the enlightened liberality of our Board of Education, must ever attach a large share of whatever honor the Normal School graduates may reflect upon their alma mater.

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IL CITY TRAINING SCHOOL.

In 1867, the City Board of Education established a Training School for teachers in connection with the Girls' High School, under the special charge of a Principal, (Mrs. A. E. DuBois,) and an assistant. Originally there was but one model class, with forty pupils; at the close of the first three months, there was an attendance of two hundred and four primary pupils, distributed in six class-rooms, taught by members of the Normal Class of the Girls' High School, who are drafted for this purpose every week, under the direction of the Normal Principal and her assistant.

The members of the Normal Class will now pass as teachers into the public schools of the city, or elsewhere, with some experience in the instruction and management of children, and with some test of their ability to govern a school.

CITY NORMAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL,

OF BOSTON, MASS.

THIS institution was established in September, 1852, as a Normal School for girls, receiving pupils from the grammar schools of the city, and educating them with especial reference to their teaching in the public schools. In 1865, the plan of the school was somewhat modified, the course of study was enlarged, and the name changed to the Girls' High and Normal School. The branches usually taught in High schools, including the Latin, French and German languages, were embraced in the list of studies, but combined with these, were exercises particularly adapted for the instruction of those who desired to become teachers.

In May, 1864, the school committee authorized the employment of a special instructor in methods of teaching, and Miss Jennie H. Stickney, of the Salem State Normal School, and afterward of the Training School at Oswego, was appointed to the place. Three primary schools, of two classes each, containing the six grades of the Boston system, were set apart as practice schools, and the whole was designated the Training department, under Miss Stickney.

The pupil teachers pass about one-third of the time in study, one-third in recitation, and one-third in the practice school. The methods in this department partake largely of "Object Teaching," as best adapted to primary schools, and its work has been extended until it embraces most of the distinctly professional work of a Primary Normal School, for such pupils of the Girls' High School as propose to teach.

The superintendent of the Boston schools, Hon. J. D. Philbrick, in his fifteenth semi-annual report, says: "The Training department continues to merit the commendation which has heretofore been bestowed upon it. Our primary schools have been already greatly benefited by the services of the graduates of this school."

The average whole number of pupils belonging to the Girls' High and Normal School in 1867, was 332, forty more than in the preceding year. The average daily attendance was 322, and the per cent. of attendance, 96. Of 1,692 pupils admitted to this school from 1852 to 1865, 415 graduated, and 368 were employed as teachers in the public schools.

The Course of Studies in the Girls' High and Normal School will be found on the next page.*

An account of the Normal School for Girls, and the Girls' High School, with the antecedent history of female education in the Public Schools of Boston, will be found in Barnard's American Journal of Education-XIII, 213-80.