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THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS There are many readers in your locality who have yet to BY SEPTEMBER 4th, 1900, the opening of the 28th year of the School THE NEW SCIENCE HALL, 60x120 feet and three stories high, will be completed and equipped with the latest and most approved apparatus. THE LIBRARY ROOM now 50x60 feet and containing 10,000 volumes, will be made one-third larger and 3000 of the latest and best reference books will be added. DORMITORY. More than 100 new rooms for students will be in readiness and a new dining hall will be erected. THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT, now the largest and best equipped in the land, will be greatly improved. INSTRUCTORS. Four additional instructors will be added to the Faculty. The school will enter upon the work of the new year with largely increased facilities, yet the expense to the student will be no greater than heretofore. The institution is equipped in every way for doing thorough work in the following DEPARTMENTS: Preparatory, Teachers, Psychology and Pedagogy, Kindergarten, Penmanship. Scientific, Classic, Higher English, Biology, Geology and Mineralogy, Engineering, Elocution and Oratory, Pharmacy, Medical, Fine Art, Law, Commercial, Phonography and Typewriting Review. Each department is a school within itself and while there are other departments, yet this is none the less a special training school for teachers, or a special school of Pharmacy, or a special school of Oratory, etc., etc. Teachers and those preparing to teach have here an opportunity of entering a greater variety of Classes in professional work than at most special schools and with reference to the high grade of work done, we refer to any educator who is familiar with the school whether he be a patron of it or not. Value of Credits. The credits received here are accepted at the best universities everywhere. As a result of the many advantages offered, the Institution has grown to be THE LARGEST NORMAL SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES and offers, for one tuition, a greater list of subjects from which students may select their work than any other school. While the attendance is large, yet the classes are so sectioned that each student has every advantage of reciting that he could have if the enrollment did not exceed 300 Expenses are much less here than at any other school offering anything like equal advantages. One tuition, $10 per term, covers al the work of the different departments, excepting private lessons in music. Good board and well furnished room, $1.50 to $1.90 per week All letters promptly answered. Catalogue mailed free. Address, 13 Astor Place, New York City. |