The Portland daily press., 1896-12-25
THE PEoAGoaUEs.
Programme for the Seventeenth Annual
Meeting.

Meeting.
The seventeenth annual meeting of the
Maine Pedagogical Society will be held
as the Oak street school building, Lew
iston, Tuesday. afternoon, Wednesday ana
Thursday forenoon, December 2e, 80 ana
81. All interested in education are
earnestly invited to attend. This Will
be the programme:
TUESDAY.
2.Oo-Deyotional Exercises, conducted
by Rev. Martyn~ Summerbell, u. u.
Address of Welcome, Mayor =. u.
Noble. Response, President OIL 0ne
Hooiety.
g.so-Musio in the Schools, Judge W.
C, Philbrook, Chairman School Board,
Wateryille. Discussion, N. Il. Mower,
Supervisor of Music, Auburn.
T. 30-Ohild Study in the united otates,
IIntFoductory to the following subleots)
PRINCIPAL George @. burlington, Farm
.45-Suggeation in Education, NJ. e..
Small, CLARK University, Worcester,
s.8O-Reception to the Association by
Lewiston Teachers.
WEDNESDAY.
9.oO-Report Of Committee on AIith-
metio, acting chairman, Principal 5. l..
Graves, Augusta, Discussion of Report.
Principal Adelaide V. Finch, of Lewiston
Training Scnool Superintendent w. f..
Winslow, Bath, Superintendent y. "a.
Lord, Portland, Principal Theodore I.
Young, Saco.
II. OO-Arithmetic, q. l. Aldrlch,
Superintendent Schools, Newton. Mass.
HIGH SCHOOL SECTION, ROOM E.
e.oo-Is the Present Preparatory Eng
lsh a SuccessP President Nathaniel
Butler, Colby University; Presidents I. 9.
G. Chase, Bates College: Principal d..
e. Cole Bath High School.
TO- 30-Should the College Preparatory
English be Separated from the other
English in High schools? Prof. IL. M.
Estabrooke, state College: Principal
AIbro E. Chase, Portland High School:
Principal E. L. Sampson, Thornton
Academy.
HALL.
a.OO-The German Schools, W. Il.
Hartshorn, Professor of English Litera-
ture, Bates College.
2.45-Nature Study and Literature,
Sarah L. Arnold, Supervisor of Schools,
Boston, Mass.
3.45-Reading. superintendent A. p.
Wagg, Auburn.
4'I5lCommittees on instruction Meet
in the Hall.
NORMAL SCHOOL SECTION, ROOM
E.
a.0O-Should Normal Schools Demand
a High School Course or.sIts Equivalent
as Requirement. OF Admission? Prin-
oipal G. c. Purington. Pennington NnT-
NAL School: Principal "A. Il. Richardson
Castine NormaIESehool; Mary IS. Snow.
Superintendent Schools, Bangor.
S.OO-How Shall High School Courses
be Arranged. TO Meet the Needs OF Nor
nal Schools and Training Glasses? Prln-
cipsl W. J. Corthell, Gorham Normal
School; Principal Sarah M. TAYLOR,
Portland Training School; PRINCIPAL
Adelaide V. Finch, Lewiston Training
School.
7.aO-Modern Demands upon 1.-THE
Teacher Hon. Frank A. Hill, Lift. D..
Secretary Massachusetts Board of Eduoa.
tion.
THURSDAY.
e.co-An Aspect Of the Rural School
Problem, T. r. Croswell, Clark Uni
yersity, Worcester. Mass.
,3O-Rural Schools: Condition. Main
tenance, Training and Licensing OF
Teachers. Supervision, their Claim on
the College. their Claim on the Com
inunity, Hon. W. W. Stetson. State
Superintendent of Schools: President
W.n. Dewitt Hyde, Bowdoin College;
President 6. G.. Chase, Bates Colleges
President Nathaniel Butler, Colby Uni
versity: Prof. n. m. Esta brooke State
College
II. O0-Business.
Superintendent Phillips, of the Lewis
ton schools has received assurances thai
there will be an unusually large attend
ane at the coming session of the Maine
Pedagogical Society. Mr.. Phillips il
especially interested in the paper to b.
delivered by Miss Sarah L. Arnold
supervisor of the Boston schools, upor
mature Study and Literature. This
will be Miss Arnold's first visit to Maine,
and the teachers of the Pine Tree State
will he intsrestad tho Dfeet her.