Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-06-04
Meeting Of the Hancock Coa1.y Elnoa-
tional Association

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citation htid - ,i.Aih semi annual m,ttiu.
~ 'nr grammar Soto room i Is uehi0i,
Ma, - .ni - Tee meeting al, called 10
order ~ the president, NJ + W Foster
q Cas'.ne. and opened b, PRAYER b, Rev
l.. ) Iipp Of B.uchA. HE ,ectc'nr, BE-
Ing absent J. 7. Perkins OF Prnun,co: ~,
appointed sroretir, ir1 tenn. I, me # lie
member, beng absent the programme could
not he followed. but there was no lack II
material presented 10 fl The time. The first
paper presented was on Profit and Loss
and Interest" b} NJ. Gross of Ofand Mr..
Gross being absent the paper Was read by
Nj. J. X Potter and followed b, discus.
sion b, the president The next paper,
How % Secure an Interest IN District
Schools va, presented by J. l.. Perkins. of
Penoh,co'. aud followed b, discussions by d.
W. Bunker. NJ. d.. 6. &. Long and Rev.
l. 5. IHpr, Of iluehdl, Rev. Gideon MAYO
OF BROOKLYN and pthers. All of the remarks
tended 10 show the parents responsibility
AMI II the parents Of our count, could have
heard them ". feel safe in saving ihet. would
not be so many cases Of absence and rardne,s
during the present year as there were in the
past. The next paper VAS on School Sup
plies" presented by A. ". King. Esq, of
Ellsworth. Following Mr.. Kings paper
was primary lesson IN color by Mis-, Has
kell, teacher of the model school at Castine.
AIRY school. The children and audience were
much pleased with the lesson. Mis-, Has
Hell here gave practical answer 10 one Of
the queries How 10 Interest the Children"
Next came paper on practical Hygiene
in Common Schools by Geo. A. Philips,
NJ d., Of Ellsworth. We fully agree with
your Bluehdl correspondent in calling thi.
the best paper presented. Al the close of
DIR. Phillips paper there was very inter
estins discussion IN regard 10 temperance
instruction in our common schools, hos far
it should be carried and what text books
should be used, by Hon. y. 4. Luce and
others. The result of the discussion was,
to show that TO comply with the intent of
the law recently passed, teachers, besides Civ
ing instruction to regular classes IN physiol-
ogy, as to the effects of alcohol on the
system, need TO give oral instruction to all
those not STUDYING PHI! siolngy. And TO
text books committees need to exercise great
care in their selections aud introduce only
those by well known authors. The evening
session was held in the Baptist church. Ii
was opened with singing and PRAYER. That
ever interesting Query Box was present and
the questions, touching upon almost every
thing relating to schools, were ably dis
cusseI BY various teachers aud others pres
ent. Following the Query Box was an ad-
dress by Hon. n. A. Luce. Saturday morn
ing all were disappointed on hearing the
president announce that word had been re-
ceived from A. F. Chase, A. NJ, of Bucks
port, that be would not be present with his
paper on The Ideal Teacher" However,
the discussion opened by Rev. Gideon Mayo
Of BROOKLYN. was very interesting and I'M
doubiedly beneficial, although some present
seemed 10 think that the IDEAL was so high
as to tend to discourage young teachers.
Blu; though no teacher can come up to the
standard presented our schools would be
much improved if all would try TO do so.
Very interesting papers on Methods of
Teaching History" BY Mr.. Walter White
OF Ellsworth. and discipline, by Miss
Ella Slower OF BIuehil, were read and dis
cussed. Also some questions left over in
the Query Box were discussed. A vote Of
thanks was extended to the citizens Of Blue
hill for their help and their kindness to those
attending the meeting. The meeting was in
every way success. All attending must
have been benefited. These meetings are Of
q great benefit to teachers, and after the re-
cent Law there can be NO excuse for teachers
not attending. We hope TO meet those
friends of education who were 1t Biuehill
and many more at the next meeting which
will probably be al Bar Harbor.