Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-23
REPORT OF THE sUPERINTENDEyT
.- OF COMMON SCHOOLS.

Hon. W.. Corthell. State Superintendent OF
Schools, has issued his report on the Schools of
Maine for the past year. We have already given
the pr ncipal statistics from advance sheets. and
they need not be repeated here The volume
opens with a comprehensive and well arranged re-
view of the history Of our public education. TAX
ing up the early laws relating to education, the
records of towns, the first school houses, school
districts, committees. the first schools of the
early towns in the State school legislation school
funds, era led and normal schools, higher acade-
miles, special schools and colleges, with their rise
and progress, the present system, its strength and
weakness, its needs aud resources, &C. This re-
view, or historical compendium. covers 1872 &C.
tavo pages and contains information never before
embraced in the valuable reports issued from the
educational department of this State, and by the
side of which this is entitled to highly honor
able position. 1t is eminently fitting that at the
close of one hundred years in the history Of our
country, the Superintendent should seize upon
the opportunity to marshal the educational forces
and this he has done in q most admirable manner.
There 10 every reason to be proud of the noble
record. 1t shows good work, perseverance, and
steady progress. There are illustrated plates
given in the report of most of the higher educa
tional institutions in the State.
The appendix to the Report proper numbering
$50 pages, contains the common school statistics,
compiled from returns Of school committees and
municipal officers, embodied In compact and con-
veniently arranged tables; also, tables showing
the amount of school money apportoned to the
several towns aud plantations; abstracts of free
high school returns; the mill tax and the laws
of the State Of Maine relating to public schools
Not only to professional educators, but to the
people as well, will this prove to be a valuable
volume, and it will be eagerly sought for
Colby University Notes.
The Colby base ball nine will play with the
Bowdoins at Brunswick, Wednesday, May 70.
Colby boasts Of five or six base ball mines, and
some Of them have dec idedly euphonic names.
Among them are the names "Do Titles" lies
Enfants," June Bugs" The "Crpples" consist
of men, all of whom are more than six feet in
height, in base ball shoes and the tallest is more
than six feet three inches. Last Saturday the
Crippes played with the "Dew Drops" who aver
age about five feet and half only. Six innings
proved q victory to the long side by a score Of IL
to s.
1t is true as reported that the Colby Chess Club
has played two games with the Bates club, but
one of these games was played in Lewiston and
by . single representative of each club, and not
by mail, as the games Of the series are to be play
ed, so it is agreed by both clubs that the game in
question shall not be reckoned in the series agreed
to. The second game of the series is not yet fn-
ished.
Some of the students are making excursions to
different places in search Of Geological specimens
Two of the students contemplate taking journey
TO the northern part of Somerset county, on a
similar errsnd. with in a few days.
President, Robins is away this week attending
the Baptist convention at Providence. Rev. Mr..
Boyd Of the first Baptist church of Cbarlestown,
Mass. will deliver the next sermon before the Y.
NJ. G. A, and Bosrdman Missionary Society.
Rev. Mr.. Lakewood Of Bangor aud Rev. W. A.
Newcombe of Haowell, were obliged to decline,
as they cannot leave their home field.