The Portland daily press., 1882-10-27
Cumberland Educational Association.


The fret regular meeting of this association
November 8 and 4, 1882 Below will be found
the programme.
10 a. m.--Opening address Pres E. Russ; appoint
ment of committees and other business.
130 D. m.-Di c lssion, reviews: ~ purposes, (2)
frequ ney, (3) methods.
3 p. m.-lhe query BOX.
1870 p. m.-Address: Longfellow Memorial in
Name Supt. Thomas ra,h.
s p. m. Lee ure: Teaching reading; aims means
methods Hon. W. j. Cortheli Discussion Of
thy same
SATURDAY.
8 a. m-Election of officers and other business
$50 a m-Di cu sion, comp sition ia school: )1)
What should be attempted (2) Method teach
1851 ing. m-Disous,ion mo ais and manners: a
Necess 4ry for teaching 81 Incidental Instruc-
ton (3) Direct teaching.
Many well known teachers have expressed
their purpose to take part in the exercises.
The discussion will be informal, and it is
hoped, general.
An important feature of the meeting will be
the Query Box"which already contains ques-
tions that must be of interest to all. Details
of school management, points in the various
brapches of study, and matters of general i'm
formation will be touched upon by these ques-
tions.
All who may be present are urged to exercise
the Yankees privilege and patIonize the box.
Full entertainment will be provided fol the
ladies, and the Maine Central railroad will sell
round trip tickets at one fare.
1t IS earnestly hoped that the teachers 10 the
county ana others Interested will make an eff
fort aud, if necessary, some little sacrifice to
be present and that those in authority in the
different towns will cheerfuliy give to the
teachers permission to close their schools on
4bat hcsa Maj ~ ~.
teacher will suffer because he spends one day
with other teachers, in comparing methods. in
asking and answering questions, aud in trying
to get little broader visw of his work than
any one school room affords.
Personal.
La r. 81. Knights window on Temple street
is fine intaglio of Hogeboom's Memory and
Hope''
A. j. Dam, Esq, proprietor of the Aston,
Union Square and Hotel Dam, New York, is
passing few days in Portland, at the FAT
mouth
The Alaska arrived out from New York,
Sunday, after passage of seven days. She
had a board the Misses Morrill, and Miss
Bessie Hill of this city.
W. o. Fuller, Jr., has been appointed to
the position of Associated Press Agent for
Rcckland, in place of r. W. Lincoln, who
has removed from the city.-Courier.
Judge Symonds is a good pedestrian. On
Sunday, III company with Mr.. MilikeD, the
Court reporter, he walked from this city to the
summit of Nj. Percival and return, distance
of ten mlles.-Beliast journal.
Royal w. Lincoln, for many years connected
with the PRESS, with his family, has removed
from Rockland to Brunswick. Mr.. Lincoln
is deservelly popular with everybody who
knows him, and we hope that his future may
be pleasant one.
Miss Kate Kurdish passed through Farming
ton last week, for her home in Brunswick,
having passed the summer in northern Frank
lin in search of Maine plants. As Miss Fur
bish's collection now numbers upwards of
thousand specimens, new ones are difficult to
find, yet her labors this summer have been re-
warded by the discovery of several rare
species, which have Commanded especial at
tention from the most eminent botanists of the
country. Miss Kurdish is doing grand work
for the State of Maine and one whose benefit
will outiast long period of Understanding
ton Chronicle.