Primary and Grammar Schools," prepared under the direction of the Massachusetts Board of Education.

2. Any laboratory notebook that is a genuine record of experiments performed, data gathered or work done, with the usual accompaniments of diagrams, observations and conclusions.

3. Any essay or article that presents the nature, successive steps and conclusion of any simple, personally conducted investigation of a scientific character, with such diagrams, sketches, tables and other helps as the character of the work may suggest.

4. Any exercise book containing compositions, abstracts, analyses or other written work that involves study in connection with the literature requirements of the examination.

SPECIAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE WRITTEN EXAMINATION.

Group I. Languages.

(a) English.— The subjects for the examination in English will be the same as those agreed upon by the colleges and high technical schools of New England and now quite generally adopted throughout the United States. Candidates are strongly advised to read all the works named, either in school or by themselves, but, until further notice, they may expect to meet the requirements of the papers set if they have properly prepared themselves upon more than half of the works assigned under each of the two heads of Reading and Practice and Study and Practice, the selection to be made by themselves or by their schools.

No candidates will be accepted whose written English is notably deficient in clear and accurate expression, spelling, punctuation, idiom or division of paragraphs, or whose spoken English exhibits faults so serious as to make it inexpedient for the normal school to attempt their correction. The candidate's English, therefore, in all oral and written examinations will be subject to the requirements implied in the statement here made, and marked accordingly.

1. Reading and Practice.. - A limited number of books will be set for reading. The candidate will be required to present evidence of a general knowledge of the subject-matter and spirit of the books, and to answer simple questions on the lives of the authors. The form of examination will usually be the writing of a paragraph or two on each of a few topics to be chosen by the candidate from a considerable number set before him in the examination paper. In place of a part or the whole of this test, the candidate may present an exercise book properly certified by his instructor, containing compositions or other written work done in connection with the reading of the books.

The books set for this part of the examination will be:

1902 Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; Pope's Iliad, Books I., VI., XXII. and XXIV.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Scott's Ivanhoe; Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans; Tennyson's The Princess; Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; George Eliot's Silas Marner.

1903-1905.- Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Julius Cæsar; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Scott's Ivanhoe; Tennyson's The Princess; Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; George Eliot's Silas Marner; Carlyle's Essay on Burns.

2. Study and Practice. This part of the examination presupposes a more careful study of each of the works named below. The examination will be upon subject-matter, form and structure.

In addition, the candidate may be required to answer questions involving the essentials of English grammar, and questions on the leading facts in those periods of English literary history to which the prescribed works belong. The books set for this part of the examination will be:

1902-1905. Shakespeare's Macbeth; Milton's Lycidas, Comus, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison.

(b) One only of the three languages,― Latin, French and German. The translation at sight of simple prose, with questions on the usual forms and ordinary constructions of the language. The candidate is earnestly advised to study Latin and either French or German.

The Conference on Uniform Requirements in English for Admission to College, on whose recommendations the foregoing lists of books in English and directions for study are based, advises

1. That English be studied throughout the primary and secondary school courses, and, when possible, for at least three periods a week during the four years of the high school course.

2. That the prescribed books be regarded as a basis for such wider courses of English study as the schools may arrange for themselves.

3. That, where careful instruction in idiomatic English translation is not given, supplementary work to secure an equivalent training in diction and in sentence structure be offered throughout the high school course.

4. That a certain amount of outside reading, chiefly of poetry, fiction, biography and history, be encouraged throughout the entire school course. 5. That definite instruction be given in the choice of words, in the structure of sentences and of paragraphs, and in the simple forms of narration, description, exposition and argument. Such instruction should begin early in the high school course.

6. That systematic training in speaking and writing English be given throughout the entire school course. That, in the high school, subjects for compositions be taken partly from the prescribed books and partly from the students' own thought and experience.

7. That each of the books prescribed for study be taught with reference to (a) the language, including the meaning of the words and sentences, the important qualities of style and the important allusions; (b) the plan of the work, i.e., its structure and method; and (c) the place of the work in literary history, the circumstances of its production and the life of its author. That all details be studied, not as ends in themselves, but as means to a comprehension of the whole.

(a) Arithmetic. — Such an acquaintance with the subject as may be gained in a good grammar school.

(b) Algebra. The mastery of any text-book suitable for the youngest class in a high school, through cases of affected quadratic equations involving one unknown quantity.

(c) Geometry. The elements of plane geometry as presented in any high school text-book. While a fair acquaintance with ordinary book work in geometry will, for the present, be accepted, candidates are advised, so far as practicable, to do original work with both theorems and problems, and an opportunity will be offered them, by means of alternative questions, to test their ability in such work.

III. History and Geography.

Any school text-book on United States history will enable candidates to meet this requirement, provided they study enough of geography to illumine the history, and make themselves familiar with the grander features of government in Massachusetts and the United States. Collateral reading in United States history is strongly advised.

IV. Sciences.

(a) Physical Geography. The mastery of the elements of this subject as presented in the study of geography in a good grammar school. If the grammar school work is supplemented by the study of some elementary text-book on physical geography, better preparation still is assured.

(b) Physiology and Hygiene. The chief elementary facts of anatomy, the general functions of the various organs, the more obvious rules of health, and the more striking effects of alcoholic drinks, narcotics and stimulants upon those addicted to their use.

(c), (d) and (e) Physics, Chemistry and Botany. - The elementary principles of these subjects so far as they may be presented in the courses usually devoted to them in good high schools. Study of the foregoing sciences, or of some of them, with the aid of laboratory methods is earnestly recommended.

V. Drawing and Music.

(a) Drawing. — Mechanical and freehand drawing,— enough to enable the candidates to draw a simple object, like a box or a pyramid or a cylinder, with plan and elevation to scale, and to make a freehand sketch of the same in perspective. Also any one of the three topics, - form, color and arrangement. (b) Music. The elementary principles of musical notation, such as an instructor should know in teaching singing in the schools. Ability to sing, while not required, will be prized as an additional qualification.

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HIGH SCHOOL RECORD.

It may be said, in general, that if the ordinary work of a good statutory high school is well done, candidates should have no difficulty in meeting the academic tests to which they may be subjected. They cannot be too earnestly urged, however, to avail themselves of the best high school facilities attainable in a four years' course, even though they should pursue studies to an extent not insisted on, or take studies not prescribed, in the admission requirements.

The importance of a good record in the high school cannot be overestimated. The stronger the evidence of character, scholarship and promise, of whatever kind, candidates bring, especially from schools of high reputation and from teachers of good judgment and fearless expression, the greater confidence they may have in guarding themselves against the contingencies of an examination and of satisfying the examiners as to their fitness.

EQUIVALENTS.

A reasonable allowance in equivalents will be made in case a candidate, for satisfactory reasons, has not taken all the subjects named for examination. In determining these equivalents, successful experience in teaching will be taken into account. It should be noted, however, that all the subjects indicated for the admission examinations are of vital importance in the preparation of the teacher for work in the elementary schools. If any are omitted before admission to the normal school, the pupil's work in them after admission is likely to be at some disadvantage.

EXAMINATION DATES.

The admission examinations are held at the several normal school buildings, in accordance with the following schedule: :

1902. Thursday and Friday, June 25 and 26; Tuesday and Wednesday, September 9 and 10.

1903. Thursday and Friday, June 24 and 25; Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8 and 9.

Examinations for admission to the Normal Art School are held near the end of September, the dates for 1901 being Monday and Tuesday, September 23 and 24.

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS.

Candidates may be admitted to preliminary examinations a year in advance of their final examinations, provided they offer themselves

in one or more of the following groups, each group to be presented in full:

Preliminary examinations can be taken in June only.

Every candidate for a preliminary examination must present a certificate of preparation in the group or groups chosen, or in the subjects thereof, the form of certificate to be substantially as follows:

School for

has been a pupil in the years and is, in my judgment, prepared to pass the normal school preliminary examination in the following group, or groups, of subjects and the divisions thereof:

Signature of principal or teacher,.
Address,

The group known as "I. Languages" must be reserved for the final examinations. It will doubtless be found generally advisable in practice that the group known as "IV. Sciences" should also be so reserved.

Candidates for the final or complete examinations are earnestly advised to present themselves, so far as practicable, in June. Division of the final or complete examinations between June and September is permissible, but it is important both for the normal school and for the candidate that the work laid out for the September examinations, which so closely precede the opening of the normal schools, shall be kept down to a minimum.

TIMES OF ADMISSION.

New classes will be admitted at the beginning of the fall term only. The studies of the course are arranged progressively from that time; it is important, therefore, that students shall present themselves then for duty. In individual cases and for strong reasons exceptions to this requirement are permissible, but only after due examination, and upon the understanding that the admission shall be at a time convenient to the school and to such classes only as the candidate is qualified to join.