Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-26
sllaiae Educational News.

garten sfhool.
Henry Rideout Of Calais. has beer
elected oAist of the senior class Of Har.
ward University.
Mrs. Lqa Whitaker of Troy, IL
teaching Vie lower village school al
Burnham.h
Donald Mcmillan of Freeport. is
principal oHthe High school at Grea,
Falls. He h $ As pupils.
The next reeting of the Association
of Colleges n New England will BIZ
held at Brun5ick. November, 1893.
The Waldobob high school has accept
ed the chalienel OF the BoOthbay HarbOr
school, 10 holo apublic OratOrical contest.
Mrs. o; M. 4on OF Bethel, recently
presented reprodctions of four noted
paintings, to thePur rooms of the town
school.
Portland is Disclosing the subject of
establishing bunch counters at the high
school, such as ard maintained in other
cities.
Graduates of Yahouth high school
are in Bowdoin, Smith, Wellesley and
Harvard and severA pupils are now
fitting for Colby.
The trustees Of Chavyfield Academy
have elected CharlesA. Stewart as
treasurer of that institution in place of
the late DIR. Milliken.
When Oakland's new choolhouse is
house in town ever mad, aSell ~ This bell
| is a brass one, and is gin from w. NJ
Dyer and c. E. Crowell.
The Westbrook school cknmittee has
given the teachers of thai city auth
ority to close school whoever they
think best on dark afterndhs.
John III. Maxwell, ESQ.,, suerintendent
of schools at Livermore Fa6 has Of
fered a prize of $12 to be uived between
the high and grammar schoS, for the
best readings at the close the next
term of school.
The November number of he Kent's
Hill Breeze contains portraibf Hudson
Maxim, one of the famous i1entors of
that name. Mr.. Maxim was ttudent at
Kent's Hill about twenty-five lars ago.
The pupils of the FIT. Fairfh schools
have organized an ant-cigaltte CLUB
with Harold Gooohue, president LinWood
Osborn, vice president; Tom HSker, sec
rotary and Treasurer; ClarencDsborne
corresponding secretary; Cal{ Burns,
manager.
The pupils OF the Boynton hiA school,
PASSPORT. will raise funds for bdltifying
, the interior of the building by1 series
of monthly lectures 10 begin Del II and
last until May. The speakers sefed are
, President Butler and Miss Mad Saw
telle, dean of the wom,ns colleg4f Col
Ne enander bennett Of lewiston: fv uo'T r
Z. St. John of Eastpo't and q1babiv
' President Hyde of Bowloin.
e The teachers of Ms,hias, hA or
@ ganized a teachers melting to Aheld
fortnightly on THURSDAY evangs.
Object, mutual improvement. 4 the
e last meeting Misses K3e and larry
e Mcdonald read excelleNt paper on
d "Beautifying of the scfbolroomsl
4 At the commencement of the hll
term of school in Oron& Mrs. 4 j.
Lovely, the music teach&. offereto
n give a handsome picture, As reNd
of merit, to the school Which shdd
excel in music. Miss Nelf Colbuts
st school won the picture. w4ch wille
an addition to the schoolrPm.
# Many beautiful pictured recent
have been distributed to thekchools
D Portland by the school decoration cor
re mittee, composed of Leading ell
ar women of Portland. Seventyive dc
p lars of the W. l.. U. contributor st
remains in the treasury to CART on t
work so we'll started this sease.
A movement has been startetamol
As the almuni of the East Maine,onfe
at ence seminary of Bucksport foia m
liz mortal for the late Prof. A. FCha
IA and also for Miss A. M. Wilson, ,cen
ly resigned, after long service pr
's ceptress. 1t is proposed to I've
v crayon portrait of each, frame al
ne hung in the chapel.
II The superintendent of schot
~, Caribou, has offered three prizes q
:, Evolutionary contest at the close II
fall term of the high schoolTf
to prizes are IS for the best recitata {
GU defamation, So for the secondbe'
is and 81 for the third. Sixteen CITE:
tants have registered. The contesvi
take place Friday, Dec. 18th.
b" The annual meeting of the Eser
TO- Washington Teachers Institute, lie
BILE was postponed from September Oe
fch cember that speakers might comb
rail, is now postponed to May. II
done at the request of State sum
vas tendent w. w. Stetson who willie
FL he present with several pronln
lily educators.
e a The Bar Harbor Public library n
.,. tains over 5000 volumes, 800 ha
been added since June 1st. Last 81
the library was re-catalogued U
uf- the Dewey decimal system. DI
ace the four summer months 3214 o
were taken from the library. Thi'
., stitution is largely supported by
'e' summer visitors who use it freely
ing their sojourn in town.
no. The fall term of Lincoln Acad
inf Wiscasset, closed, November %. t.
open, December 5. Ezekiel Ross,
of the board of trustees will dona
'on- the academy his collection of min
and fossils. Mr.. Ross has long bee
I To enthusiastic student of minera
and his collection is said to be OF
the finest private collections in
State A Souvenir Pamphlet of
lrn, academy Principal Larrabee is n
d. ready for publication. 1t con
red.
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