Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-28
Maine Educational News.

reading circle.
Guilford pupils are raising money for
a schoolhouse bell.
There are 100 pupils In attendance al
the Caribou high school.
Waldo county is said to have but tive
students at Bowdoin College
Miss Zadee Morrison has been chosel
teacher OF drawing in the Skowhega
schools.
Miss Elinor F. Hunt has been en-
gagged as first assistant of the Norway
high school.
Mr.. E. G. Butler has been engaged as
principal of the Strong village school,
the coming year.
Over 40 pupils are attending the Cor
lima Academy. They hold lyceums
every Thursday evening.
Robert N. Millett OF Norway. Colby
95. has been engaged to teach the
West RoclSport high school
The Lewiston High school boys ora
already making preparations for Field
day. The second class have already
S17 in their treasury.
Miss Ina bennett of Saco. who grad
uated from the Gorham Normal school
last winter. has accepted Il position III
Il school at Tewksb,xy, Mass.
Miss Kate A. Holland has attended
the Limerick Academy for three years
and during that time has not missed !.
single day nor been tardy once.
Miss Jennie .. Bucllnam Of Var
mouth, who has been teaching in Deer
ing, has accepted a position in the
grammar school at Medford, Mass.
The senior class of Foxcroft Acad
envy has invited President Harris, oi
the Maine State College, to preach the
baccalaurcate sermon at the COM
n1encement exercises.
The net proceeds from the drama
given recently by the Auburn high
school We're $375 This sum will go in
part toward the expenses of the grad
uation of the senior class.
A very fine model of the yacht De-
fender, made by Edward Richards, a
l2-year-old pupil, is exhibited at the
Portland manual training school II
will also be exhibited at the New Eng
land fair
The South Thomaston school board
has voted to hold regular meetings the
third Friday in each month. At the
meeting April Il. the question OF
changing Biographies will be brought
before the board.
The graduating class of the Rock
land high school has "a members. and
is the largest in the history of the
school The percentage of young men
who will graduate is very much larger
this year than for several years past
Walter S. GRAHAM of Bangor VINO
entered the Worcester Polytechnic In
stitute last September, passed his first
semiannual examination in such a
successful manner that he has been
granted one-half of free state schol-
lrship.
The teachers Of Palermo are having
sort of reunion this spring in the
form Of public high school which is
loW in successful progress at Gree
ley's Corner, under the instruction of
Mr.. Ernest C. Bowler Nearly every
teacher in town is in attendance. Nj.
Bowler is a graduate of Castine Nor
:
successful educators
Raymond Dodge of Massachusetts. n
nephew of MIR. Stowe of South Paris.
Fhp is studying in the university at
Halle a Saale, Germany. writes that
IL has invented an instrument
cor the measurement of sense
perception. For this honor tn.
German psychologists proposed to
make him an assistant professor in
their university, and the government
would bear the further expense of his
education fitting him for this position
Mr.. Dodge, however. cannot think of
tenouncinS his native land for even
that honor. 50 declines to accept ana
Will get his degree and return to Amer
lea.
Miss Minnie $. Berry of PHILADELPHIA
formerly a teacher in the jackson
school Portland. has made some sue
cesSfui experiments with the N-rays.
some of her photographs being pro-
bounced the finest yet shown, either il
this country or Europe. Among the
made were those of a bull
let so imbedded in a hand as to be
difficult of detection by any other
method. needle so concealed in the
flesh that only probe could have 10
tated it, and fracture of one of the
bones of the forearm. which had beer
set but which clearly showed in the
Miss Berry is at the head
of the department of physics in the
Girls High school. Philadelphia.