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FROM THE GIFT OF

CHARLES HERBERT THURBER
JUN 22 1928

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November Reports..........
Obedience

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187 Scientific Temperance..............................
Sense and Nonsense, School
Bulletin.......

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229

Object Lessons..
October Reports........
140
Our Inter-Collegiate Contest... 257
Our New Shorter Catechism......127
Our Question Box, 15, 56, 83, 112
142, 242, 279, 303, 329, 355.

Pilgrims' Progress, The........ . 36

Pillars of Atlas, The........ 348

Practical Grammar.......8, 44, 71, 98

129, 264, 293, 322.

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September Reports.

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361
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Shall We Have Third Grade
Certificates?...... Supt. Evans, 353
Sowing Dragons' Teeth...... 348
Some Would-be Teachers' Ideas
on Grammar..

State Educational Board of Ex-

aminers......

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Report of Com. on Pres. Ad-
dress, S. T. A.

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W.F.E.S. 347

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Words We Use, The... N. N. P. 235

Teachers Wanted

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NORMAL MONTHLY.

Vol. Ꮴ .

DUBUQUE, AUGUST, 1881.

A UNITED LAND.

"How the tall white daisies grow
Where the grim artillery rolled!"
So wrote the poet, long ago,

When the black death-cloud, fold on fold,
Had vanished from the nation's sky
And the blessed sun of peace was high.

Ay, Nature swiftly covers every scar;
But in the hearts of men

Still smolders on the cruel flame of war,

Ready to burst again;

Can aught remove, save the slow healer, Time,

The scars of fratricidal hate and crime?

Yes, since that dastardly and cruel hand
Struck at the nation's head,

One people with one heart we stand,
Around the sufferer's bed;

The touch divine of sympathy doth prove us kin,
And in our loyal grief we're brothers once again.
Not all the fervor of his generous thought,

Or wisdom of his cultured brain,
Could do the work that he has wrought,

Stretched on his bed of pain.

Rejoice, praise God, O manly soul and grand!
Thy wounds are for the healing of the land!

For North and South forget all other strife
Save which shall love thee best;

And, breathless round their hero's faltering life,
Watch the great East and West.

There rise to Heaven for thee, on every hand,

No. 1.

The prayers and tears of a united land.

M.

THE TRUE PEDAGOGIC STYLE.

Mr. Blank was an ambitious young pedagogue. He commenced his labors in a village school but hoped to soon occupy a much higher position. To this end he read carefully whatever reports, schedules of study &c, he could procure that he might be able to prepare like reports &c, when the duties of his position should require it. He was especially impressed with the logical arrangement of the various subjects in these pedagogic productions. He noted how they divided even the simplest subjects into certain great groups, marking the first division with Roman numerals; how they sub-divided these and marked the sub-divisions; and how they again sub-divided these last divisions and marked them with letters and figures. After reading half a score of these, he felt fully competent for the task, and longed for an opportunity to try his hand at it. He had not long to wait, for the gentleman with whom he boarded, a well-to-do farmer living in the out-skirts of the village, determined to sell off his personal property at auction and move to town to engage in mercantile business; and Mr. Blank was asked to write out a number of notices of the sale and post them in the neighborhood. How faithfully he had studied the most approved pedagogic style will be seen from the following copy of one of these notices. The only reason the village people made sport of them was that they were not familiar with the style of modern "educators."

I. Time.

A. Year,-1880.
1.

VENDUE!

Month,-November.

a. Day,-1st; (a) Hour, 10 o'clock A. M.

Note; This is the hour of commencing; it will continue till the property is sold.

II. Place.

of

A.

State,-Iowa.

1. County,

a, Township, Jefferson; (a) Farm, Mr. Smith's. Note.--Mr. Smith's farm is about one-half a mile east of the village

III. Object. To sell at public auction to the highest bidder:
A. Live stock.

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a, sucking colts; (a) males: (b) females; b, yearlings; (a) males; (b) females; c, two-year-olds; (a) males; (b) females; d, three-year-olds; (a) males; (b) females; e, adults; (a) males; (b) females; f, others.

Note,-Under this last will be found any not included in the above

classes.

2. Cattle.

a, calves; (a) male; (1) short horns; (2) others; (b) females; (1) short horns; (2) others; b, adults; (a) males; (1) oxen; (2) others; (b) females; (1) heifers; (2) milch cows; (3) others.

3. Swine.

a, pigs; (a) males; (b) females; b, adults; (a) males; (b) females.

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2. Wagons.

a, lumber; b, spring; c, ox-eart; d, hand cart. 3. Plows.

a, breaking plows; b, shovel plows; c, cultivator. 4. Hoes.

a, short-handled; b, long-handled; c, iron hoe without a handle.

5. Shovels.

a, scoop; b, barn-shovel; c, spade; d, fire shovel. 6. Rakes.

a, hay rake; (a) horse; (b) hand; b, garden rake. 7. Pitchforks.

8.

a, four-tined; b, three-tined; c, two-tined; (a) long-handled; (b) short-handled.

Axes.

a, chopping ax; (a) sharp; (b) dull; b, meat ax; c, hatchet. 9. Saws.

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C. Grain.

a, sled; b, wheel-barrow; c, crow-bar; d, hammer; e, hạyrack; f, saddle; g, harness.

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B.

Cash.

Credit of six months with 10 per cent. interest and security.

Any old subscribers not wishing their Journal continued should notify us, as it will in all cases be continued till ordered stopped, and until all arrearages are paid. In writing to us, be sure to give your postoffice address, that we may know where to find your name on our books. Address,

IOWA NORMAL MONTHLY, DUBUQUE, Iowa.

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