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A Connecticut School. 



West End Institute is located near the 

 centre of the beautiful city of New Haven, 

 at No. 99 Howe Street. It was first opened 

 in September of the year 1870. The build- 

 ing has been twice enlarged to accommodate 

 the growing needs, and now is perfectly 

 adapted to the school purposes. It contains 

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 school-room, and a studio devoted to school 

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 rooms on the south side, upon the second and 

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 the family. Each room accommodates two 

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 of rooms, and by the adapting of clothing to 

 the variations of weather. The rules and 

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Star Maps. 

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A Vermont School. 

 Our school never was more flourishing 

 than to-day. It has increased from twenty- 

 five, pupils in 1886 to forty-seven to-day. 

 Our limit of accommodation is fifty, so that 

 we are practically full. The growth has 

 been owing to the thoroughness and prac- 

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 home combined with the excellence of a 

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 ever been the boys themselves and the im- 

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 a town usually brings more. No applicant 

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 our school has ever been rejected. These 

 facts prove the high character of the school. 

 — Vermont Episcopal Institute, Bur- 

 lington, Vt. . 



Whitall's Planispheres locite and name all the 

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Brandt, H. C. G. A First Book in German. Boston, 

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Cannan, E. r.lcmentary Political Economy. London, 

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Cakev, Rosa N. Aunt Diana. Philadelphia, Lippincott. 

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Chardenal, C a. First French Course or Rules and 

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Clum, F. D. Inebriety ; its Causes, its Results, its 

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Earle. J. A Hand-Book to the Land-Charters, and 

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FooTE, Mary Hallock. John Bodewin's Testimony. 

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Gerard, E. The Land beyond the Forest : Facts, Fig- 

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