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Hygiene so far as they have reference to the effects of narcoties and stimulants upon the human system. A residence of one-half year is also required.

Requirements for the Degrees.

‘The requirements for obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogics were essentially the following:

Persons who had completed one of the three years’ courses were required to complete three years of additional work; those whé had completed a four years’ course were required to complete two years of additional work. The work was to be selected according to certain prescribed rules, and must include all the work offered by at least two of the following departments of the School, viz., Mental and Moral Science and Theory and Art of Teaching, History and Civics, Mathematics, French and German, Latin and Greek, Physical Sciences, Natural Sciences, and English Language and Literature, and that the studies selected outside of these two departments he pursued at least to the extent Tepe for completing such studies in this School.

The requirements for securing the degree of Master of Pedagogics were the following:

Any person holding the degree of Bachelor of ledagogics of the Michigan State Normal School, may upon application, receive the degree of Master of Pedagozics upon the following conditions:

(a) He shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the Faculty that he has been engaged in teaching or in school supervision continuously and with pronounced success for five years since receiving the Bachelor's degree.

(b) He shall prepare and present a thesis acceptable to the said Faculty, upon some subject connected with the History, Science, or Art of Education, the Faculty reserving the right to assign the subject of such thesis.

The strictly professional instruction at this time is described as follows:

General Instruction in the Science and Art of Teaching.

“This course precedes the special courses in methods of teaching the various branches, and is designed to prepare the student to receive such special instruction with advantage. At least ten weeks of instruction in Psychology must precede any such special instruction in methods of teaching.

(1) The course includes the study, for one full term of twenty weeks, of the Elements of Psychology, embracing the elementary principles of both mental and moral science. The trmith is recognized that the art of teaching must be based upon the science of education, and that the science