Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-12
In The Schoolr0om.

The Caribou high school has ITO pu-
| pills registered for the winter term
| There are Sc pupils enrolled at the
winter term of the Norway high scnocl
| Bristol is discussing the question of a
permanent high school. That's a move
| in the right direction.
| An open fire is an excellent thing in
! library for the preservation of the
| books. according to an expert in such
things.
| About 1000 volumes are added to the
| library of Bowdoin college every year
| The library at present contains $1,000
volumes.
\. j. Dreamer, who is teaching the
winter term of school at North Waldo
boro, is only p years of age. but hes
taught 10 terms.
Daniel Gordon closed very success
full term of school at Knox Corner,
Jan. 2, this being the seventy-fourth
term of school taught by him.
The attendance at the fall term of
the RocllpGrt schools averaged 81 per
cent. This is the best percentage ever
attained by the schools of that town.
Washington Academy, East Ma
chias, opens the winter term with a
larger number of pupils than mas been
in attendance for many years. Sew
enty pupils are enrolled and more ex-
pected.
Principal Moore of the Ellsworth
high school is making an effort to es-
tablish a reference library at the
school, thing which is much needed
Graduates of the school are being
asked to contribute to library fund.
The series of teachers meetings in
augurated at Camden last term proved
very helpful. Nearly every teacher
vas present at each meeting and con-
siderable enthusiasm was aroused.
The meetings will be continued during
the winter.
Two Brooklyn teachers were retired
on half pay recently aud are the first
receiving the benefit of the new pen
sion law. The fund providing this
much needed assistance was raised by
d one per cent. contribution from the
teachers now in the service of the city.
A. Conan Doyle suggests that 1T
might be no bad thing for a man now
and then to make a literary retreat, as
pious men make a spiritual one-to
foreswear absolutely for a month in
the year all ephemeral literature and
bring an untarnished mind to the read
ing of the English classics"
New York city will spend Sal, 500 for
medical inspection of her schools. The
doctors must visit the schools every
morning. The idea is to prevent, if pos
sible, the dissemination of infectious
diseases through the schools by discov-
ering the symptoms of the diseases
before it is too late to prevent con-
tagion.
The free lectures to the people, I'M
der the auspices of the board of edu-
cation of New York city. are meeting
even greater success this year than
last, when they were attended by more
than 40o,0 900 persons. Through them
scientific. historical and literary facts
are brought to the, knowledge of thou
sands of people to whom, otherwise.
they would remain closed books, so to
speak.
Philadelphia people claim that the
free libraries of that city have the
Sreatest circulation in the world For
the year ending September so. 1895,
1,2930G4 volumes were circulated, eX-
elusive of the reference books con-
suited in the library buildings. These
figures. if correct, exceed those of
Manchester (England, Chicago and
Boston, hitherto considered the largest
in the world. +
The schoolhouse at South Palermo.
formerly known as the Rust schools
house, has been much improved by the
expanding of money raised at an en-