Charge per annum for tuition in regular course, including incidental This school is designed to furnish a course of instruction which will fit youth for practical business, teaching or college. A teacher's class is formed each term. Special attention is given to free and light gymnastics. The full course was adopted only two years since. Whole number of graduates since organization of institution. Value of buildings, furniture and grounds.... Value of libraries..... Value of apparatus. Charge per annum for tuition in regular course. Average of total annual expenses per student.. .$89 75 $100 to $150 00 ....39 First Friday after June 15th. Number of weeks in academic year... Date of annual commencement HYDE PARK SEMINARY. [Hyde Park, Cook County. Founded 1857.] Mrs. C. V. WAITE, Principal. This school is located about three miles south of the limits of Chicago. It was incorporated by the Legislature of 1857. The stock prescribed for the organization was never formally subscribed, but the board of trustees, in 1859, adopted, as the institution they were authorized to organize, one which had been already founded by Mrs. C. V. Waite. The institution was opened by Mrs. Waite in 1859, and successfully conducted by her until 1862. Under the control of various parties, and with varied success, its management was brought down to 1868, when Mrs. Waite again assumed control. The school is designed for persons of both sexes. PALMER'S ACADEMY. [Chicago. Established 1860.] W. D. PALMER, A. M., Principal. In the words of the principal, the leading feature of this school "is to afford one teacher to an average of every twenty-six pupils, thus affording nearly thrice the attention to each pupil of our Chicago public schools. The course of study is arranged in primary, advanced primary, intermediate and advanced departments. The studies of the advanced department cover the same ground as the common English course of high schools. French and German are taught. The school has had an average membership of one hundred different pupils per year, for eight years." .250 $12,000 100 .50 to 100 ..50 to 100 Third Thursday in June. Number of pupils in preparatory department.. Number of pupils graduating during the year.... .... Whole number of graduates since organization of institution. Value of apparatus.... ... Charge per annum for tuition in regular course. DIXON SEMINARY. [Dixon, Lee County. Founded 1863.] Rev. M. MCKENDREE TOOKE, A. M., President. This seminary is open to the admission of ladies and gentlemen. It is not under the special control of any denomination. The course of study is classified as follows, viz: primary, common English or preparatory, higher English or scientific, classical or department of languages, and practical business department. teacher's class is organized at the beginning of each term. Telegraphing is also taught, and vocal and instrumental music, and ornamental branches. "The seminary is a five-story brick edifice." The aggregate of attendance for last four years has been some 1,375 students. STATISTICAL SUMMARY. Years occupied in regular course of study Value of buildings, furniture and grounds... Value of libraries........ Charge per annum for tuition in regular course Room and necessary incidental expenses, per annum.... Average of total annual expenses per student...... Date of annual commencement. 20 45 77 6 .$50,000 400 $500 40 200 240 .Fourth Friday in June. GRAND PRAIRIE SEMINARY. [Onarga, Iroquois County. Founded 1863.] Rev. W. C. KNAPP, A. M., Principal. The seminary is under the patronage and general direction of the Central Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is open for both sexes and all classes. It makes no pretensions to the rank or name of a college. There is no primary department connected with the institution. The seminary building is of wood, is three stories high, contains a chapel, library room, cabinet, and laboratory and recitation rooms, and "is sufficiently large to accommodate two hundred students." There are four courses of study-classical, scientific, normal and musical. The classical course occupies three years, including Latin (as far as Virgil) and French; Greek may be substituted for French. Drawing, painting and music can be taken in connection with the studies of this course. German appears in the scientific course, and the ancient languages are omitted. Time occupied is same as in the classical course. The normal course occupies two years. The musical course is intended to fit students for teaching the theory and practice of music. There is in the same building and under the same general supervision a business college, claimed to be the first chartered college of the kind belonging to a religious denomination, but the commercial course is not placed among the departments of the seminary. The teaching of phonography has been introduced. There were connected with the seminary and commercial college, during the term, ending April 15, 1868, sixty-three gentlemen and fifty-two ladies, and during the term, ending July 2, 1868, forty-four gentlemen and forty-three ladies. Whole number of graduates since organization of institution.. Value of buildings, furniture and grounds... Number of volumes in libraries.. Value of libraries.... $15,000 Amount of endowment, exclusive of buildings, etc. 20,000 200 $300 The object of this seminary is to afford thorough education on the most liberal terms. Pupils of both sexes are admitted, but the male and female departments are "separate, except in recitation." Each county in the State can send one pupil without charge for tuition. Such pupil must bring a certificate of good moral character from the county superintendent or county court, and must be sufficiently advanced to enter upon the regular course of study. Besides giving regular diplomas, the institution grants certificates to any pupil for the branches studied. STATISTICAL SUMMARY. ... Years occupied in regular course of study Number of pupils graduating during the year.. Whole number of graduates since organization of institution... 4 40 88 54 5 5 6 Charge per annum for tuition in regular course.... Room and necessary incidental expenses, per annum, including board 24 166 This seminary is not yet chartered, but its trustees are intending to obtain incorporation. It has a preparatory and a seminary course; the latter of three years, which includes mathematics to trigonometry, Latin to Virgil and Cicero, and the usual branches of natural and abstract science. Greek and modern languages, surveying, book keeping and ornamental branches of study are optional. The fundamental matters of orthography, penmanship, grammar, etc., receive constant attention. The citizens of Mount Vernon are showing considerable interest in making the school one of good character for thoroughness and scope. The attendance has averaged over sixty. Two assistant teachers are employed. The fall term begins at the middle of September, and the school year embraces forty weeks. Average rate of tuition $30 for the year. MCDONOUGH NORMAL AND SCIENTIFIC COLLEGE. [Macomb, McDonough County. Founded 1867.] D. BRANCH, A. M., Principal. The only information at hand concerning this school is comprised in the following note from the principal: "Our school as |