The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-02-13

of the afternoon exhibition fully impressed
with the conviction that Portland had good
reason to be satisfied with Mr.. Stone and his
able assistant teachers, under whose careful
supervision the sons and daughters of so MANY
of our citizens receive the finish to their public
education, and are ftted,-the boys for the
and the college; the girls. as
was truly said in the school newspaper, for the
"future wives" of the community, and conse-
quently the mothers of families. We heard a
lady arguing the question of woman suffrage
some time ago, and one of the truest things she
said was shat woman had no right to demand
a vote untrshe had educated herself and was
prepared to educate her children. That
woman who thought of nothing but dress and
display, and, a married woman, let her children
be taken care of by dependents, while all she
thought of was fashion, had no right to vote"
But we also think that, woman suffrage or not
every young man and every young woman
should strive to avail themselves of every edu-
cational advantage they can secure, for rest
assured that if you neglect your studies aop
the time will come, and not far distant, when
"you will sigh over wasted opportunities in
the days that are gone" "'A q
The High School is presided over by Mr.. A.
P. Stone, Principal; Mr.. A. e Chase. Assist
ant Master, and Miss Angela E. Small. AS
sistant Mistress. The Assistants are Edwin s.
Small; Katherine B. Larrabee; Lucretia d.
Sewall; Lucretia A. Tobie; Harriet A. Leayitt,
whose place has been supplied for a part of
the term by Miss E. Fl. Smaller; Mary s.. Deer
ing; Mary F. Lawrence; Eliza J. Perley, whose
absence has employed Miss Agnes M Lord;
Alice $. Fairfield and Abby T. Sewall. There
are two High School rooms and eight class
rooms. -...-+-- ,-- - '--,.
In the morning we attended several of the
examinations; among them tie first class in
Latin, whose text book was "Cicero de Amici.
ti@,' the same class in French; the second
class 1--WE believe it was) in Chemistry, class
in History, and spent few moments in several
rooms where the pupils were being examined
in Mathematics. We were particularly pleased
with what we heard of the Latin class, the
girls translating elegantly, no bungling ex.
pressions used, and at the same time evincine
a thorough knowledge of the text book by
their answers on construction. In the French
recitation the enunciation was clear and the
accent good, and we know of Sophomore
classes in certain colleges who would be put t.
the blush by these young ladies if called upon
to pass an examination with them in moods
and lenses. The Chemistry class was well ul
in their subject, and answered readily and
promptly. The textbook they use was one we
never saw before, and were particularly pleased
with, and we think if it was introduced into
our colleges it would simplify most us ,fu
branch of knowledge, and enable many stu.
dents to know a little more about the matter
than they do. The description of the battles
!, ard events pertaining to revolutionary times
was satisfactory, and we were pleased with the
method of drawing maps on the blackboard,
representing the battlefelds of the war for
independence, from memory, in, order to more
forcibly impress upon the mind the foundation
of our country's history as republic. Of the
proficiency in Mathe atics our glance into
each room was SO hurried that we are not able
to give an opinion. We should say in this
connection that out of 16 members of the first
Latin class nine were perfect, having received
the highest mark, 4. In the French class three
received 4, and thirteen 3 95 out of thirty
members. S@sssssFsSe4sa
In the afternoon we attended class in AS
tronomy and one in History, before the exhi-
bition. The drawing of the illustrative fig
ures on the blackboard in the Astronomy
room was capitally done, and the class ac-
Quilted themselves we'll, as did the one in
History. We would state here that a rule
should be made that visitors must remain dur
ing the recitation of a class, for the constant
going out and coming in to the room is terri
BILE annoyance to those who really desire to
hear the scholars.
The friends of the pupils turned out in full
force to the exhibition. Mr.. Stone humorous
ly remarked that he gave permission to the
scholars to invite their friends, and from the
number present he had come to the coaclusfon
that they had a great many friends and the
friends were all present The following was
the
zl-t ORDER OF EXERCISES. fs,g.v-yl,
/. Music, instrumental Trio, i-t 5co W ~
Misses Me grill, Reeves and Sherwood.
2. Defamation, "New England and the Union"
,..Bs ge Frank ). Warehouse.
T. Select Reading Nhs before st ths Sstts
; Composition, Thoughts, words Seannci ex-
lass" tItl llls-lT 80 a Harold Smith
6 7.select Reading, ''The Pied Piper"
s. Music, song "waiting," Fannie Nj. chanaier.
9. Disposition, Female Suffrage '-esf- 81.
Inez a. Blanchard, Saran A. Co olidge.
TO- Select Reading, "Twenly Years Ago."
o. pife1fi n q Hannibal ii. Emery. e
II. Composition, Novelties Eta L. Pickering.
L. Select Reading, "Schller's Battle ves ,sr "a
Jessie nj. Lemont.
nd 10 Defamation The Assault sR Charles
II. Reading of 1.-THE Transit" (fhe School Paper
q etoHf f1G9 ..a Ella A KimbaiL
Is. Music, Duet sThe Leaf and he Fountain,p
su7o9 llt Lizzie *. Coffin, Alice II. StroutI
The music, both instrumental and vocal, was
very prettily executed, and the Reclamation
and reading was very good indeed. The origi-
nal compositions displayed much thought, and
not few original ideas clothed in happy met
aphor gracefully expressed The Female
Suffrage question was scholarly and wittiiy
handled by the two fair dispntants, and the
school paper, The Transit contained sever.
al finely written productions, besides the com.
ical alphabet, introdu cing the peculiarities Of
the members of the school, and a beautiful
tribute in memoriam of deceased school
mate, the different papers bound together with
the class ribbon. It was very interesting &C.
casion, and the spacious room filled, with the
bright young faces of SO many girls and boys
enclosed by the countenances of parents and
friends beaming with pleasure, presented a
beautiful picture. unfiA l9 ozis bssJ q af,.-.
The following are statistics for the term :
There are twenty-five girls and boys perfect in
scholarship, they having received 4, the highest
mark Among them is included Henry Pre-.
DIE whose rank was wrongly printed on the