ion, its nature, 111.
Necessity of, 193.
Want of, a cause of insanity, 309.
Should be pursued practically, 435.

Moon, its influence on the weather, 248.

Mortality, cause and extent of, among infants, 298-300.

Muscles, how they act, 72.
Of the eye, 179.
See _Exercise_.

Music, vocal, a branch of education in Germany, 80.

National education, political necessity of, 325.
Degree of, in this country, 337.
Provisions for, 343.
Practicability of, 353.
The means of, 362-460.

Natural philosophy, the mode of teaching, 434.

Navigation among the ignorant and educated, 250.

Nerves, sensibility of the, 161, 162.
See _Brain_.

New York, Free Academy, 386.
Public Schools in, 386, 434.

Normal Schools, necessity for, 421-440.

Oliver Caswell, the deaf, dumb, and blind boy, 159.

Onanism, 409.
See _Secret Vice_.

Page, D. P., on the redeeming power of common schools, 454.

Parents, the natural educators of their children, 411.
Vicious, sometimes reformed by school children, 441.

Pauperism, diminished by education, 286.
Extent of, in New York, 358.
Expense of maintaining, 358.

Peace convention at Paris referred to, 459.

Petulancy in teachers and others accounted for, 94, 120.

Physical education, importance of, 28.
A preventive of disease, 34.
The only correct basis for intellectual and moral, 32, 111.

Physician, his office and that of the clergyman compared, 34.
How he may be most useful in his profession, 34, 35.

Physiology, made by law a study in common schools, 61.
Lectures upon, by school teachers, 61.

Play-rooms, important for small children, 403.

Politics, definition of, 335.
Should be a school study, 335.

Politeness should be habitual, 142.

Popular intelligence, degree of, in the United States, 337.
Existing provisions for, 343.

Poverty, extent of in Spain, 294.
How diminished, 253, 286.

Precocity of scrofulous and rickety children, 130.
How they should be treated, 131, 132, 133.

Pregnancy, the state of the mother during, influences the character of
the child, 116, 117.

Punishments, certain kinds injurious, 77, 171.
See _Capital Punishment_.

Purblind students, suggestions for, 185.

Quincy, Hon. Josiah, Jr., on compulsory attendance upon school, 447.

Reading aloud a healthful exercise, 79.
How reading is frequently taught, 429.
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