THE Indiana School Journal: ORGAN OF HE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, AND OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. GEORGE W. HOSS, EDITOR, Indianapolis. Terms: $1.25 per Annum in advance. Single Copies, 15 Cts. The Department of Public Instruction has decided that Trustees may subscribe for the Journal, for office use, and pay out of the Special Fund. INDIANAPOLIS: PRINTED BY WETMORE & STEACY, Office-No. 20 North Delaware Street, (Opposite County Recorder's Office, West side.) 1865. Postage-Twelve cents a year, if paid in advance. ! TWO NEW BOOKS. EVERY TEACHER SHOULD EXAMINE. PINNEO'S GUIDE TO COMPOSITION. SMART'S MANUAL OF FREE GYMNASTICS. PINNEO'S GUIDE TO COMPOSITION embraces a series of graduated pra tical lessons, with appropriate directions, exercises, and models, designed to simplify the art of writing composition. Adapted to the wants of be ginners. There are few who are not frequently required to express their ideas in writing, and none who may not, at some time, be subject to this necessity. No education, therefore, can be complete that does not include this import: ant subject. In this work the attempt is made to render this usually repulsive d difficult branch, simple, easy, and interesting. So gradually is the papi led along, step by step, that he is actually taught to write composition before he is aware of it, and before the word composition is used. SMART'S MANUAL OF FREE GYMNASTIC AND DUMB BELL EXERCISES is a concise practical treatise on this very important branch of culture, designed for class use in the school-room and for private students. OPINIONS OF EDUCATORS. "RESOLVED, That gymnastic training should be introduced into all the schools of the State, and made as indispensable in the daily routine of duties as the other exercises of the school-room. "RESOLVED, That Free Gymnastic exercises, calculated to secure a symmetrical devel opment of the body, may be made successful without any loss of time or progress on the part of the pupils in their attainments, and that teachers, by the use of a chea Manual, will find no difficulty in awakening interest in this indispensable branch of education."-Resolutions adopted by the Ohio State Teachers' Association, July, 1863. "Free Gymnastics are of great value in forming the habits of the body in the youn The experiment of Free Gymnastics has proved a decided success in the schools of C# | cinnati."-LYMAN HARDING, Supt. of Cincinnati Public Schools. "As to the practicability of making physical exercises a part of our system of publi instruction, I entertain no doubt."-JOHN D. PHILBRICK, Supt. of Boston Public Schoo Single specimen copies sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of 30 cents for the Composition, and 20 cents for the Manual. Supplies for first introduction furnished at 25 cents a copy for the Com position, and 10 cents for the Manual, parties ordering paying freight. SARGENT, WILSON & HINKLE, PUBLISHERS, Cincinnati, 0. to ESTABLISHED IN 1854. A general assortment of School Furniture constantly on hand. and made An Illustrated Catalogue and information relating to Schools. Apparatus, Furniture, or Buildings, &c., forwarded on application by mail or otherwise. W. CHASE & SON, 198 Seventh-st., Buffalo, N. Y. HENRY M. SHERWOOD, Chicago, Agent for the North-West, C. F. VENT & CO., Sole Agents, No. 38 West Fourth-st., Cincinnati, O. 1 TWO NEW BOOKS. EVERY TEACHER SHOULD EXAMINE. PINNEO'S GUIDE TO COMPOSITION. PINNEO'S GUIDE TO COMPOSITION embraces a series of graduated prac tical lessons, with appropriate directions, exercises, and models, designed to simplify the art of writing composition. Adapted to the wants of beginners. There are few who are not frequently required to express their ideas in writing, and none who may not, at some time, be subject to this necessity. No education, therefore, can be complete that does not include this important subject. In this work the attempt is made to render this usually repulsive and difficult branch, simple, easy, and interesting. So gradually is the pupil led along, step by step, that he is actually taught to write composition before he is aware of it, and before the word composition is used. SMART'S MANUAL OF FREE GYMNASTIC AND DUMB BELL EXERCISES is a concise practical treatise on this very important branch of culture, designed for class use in the school-room and for private students. OPINIONS OF EDUCATORS. "RESOLVED, That gymnastic training should be introduced into all the schools of the State, and made as indispensable in the daily routine of duties as the other exercises of the school-room. " "RESOLVED, That Free Gymnastic exercises, calculated to secure a symmetrical development of the body, may be made successful without any loss of time or progress on the part of the pupils in their attainments, and that teachers, by the use of a cheap Manual, will find no difficulty in awakening interest in this indispensable branch of education."-Resolutions adopted by the Ohio State Teachers' Association, July, 1863. "Free Gymnastics are of great value in forming the habits of the body in the young. The experiment of Free Gymnastics has proved a decided success in the schools of Cincinnati."-LYMAN HARDING, Supt. of Cincinnati Public Schools. "As to the practicability of making physical exercises a part of our system of public instruction, I entertain no doubt."-JOHN D. PHILBRICK, Supt. of Boston Public Schools. Single specimen copies sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of 30 cents for the Composition, and 20 cents for the Manual. Supplies for first introduction furnished at 25 cents a copy for the Com position, and 10 cents for the Manual, parties ordering paying freight. SARGENT, WILSON & HINKLE, PUBLISHERS, Cincinnati, O. Terms: $1.25 per Annum in advance. Single Copies, 15 Cts. The Department of Public Instruction has decided that Trustees may subscribe for the Journal, for office use, and pay out of the Special Revenue. INDIANAPOLIS: PRINTED BY WETMORE & STEACY, Office-No. 20 North Delaware Street, (Opposite County Recorder's Office, West side.) |