The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-02
Premier Sagasta after the council, said:
ssIomorrow's meeting of the com mission
ers will not be the last.''
MAINE PEDAaoouEs.
Programme for the Three Days Meeting
to be Held in Augusta

The final arrangements for the program
of the Maine Pedagogical Society whose
meetings will be held at the State House
in Augusta, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Dee 20, 81 and 49, have been
made by the committee in charge. The
programme given to the Kennebec Jour-
nal by Pres. S. Graves is:
Tuesday Afternoon, Dec. 200,
Prayer; address of welcome, Mayor >: M.
address. President A. W. Harris, Uniyer-
sity of Maine; "The Higher Eduoatlon
and American Life,'' President Nathaniel
Evenina. -ssSoientitic Temperance In
struction4The Letter and the Spirit, =
Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates, Round
Pond. Reception to the association by
the Augusta teachers.
Wednesday Eorenoon--High School SEQ
ton, Judiciary Room, Prin. h. =. Cole.
Bath, president-9 30-(1l Discipline as a
Factor in Education" Principal #. G..
Harrington. Skowhegan High School; (s)
HSight Work in Language Study" Prin-
oipai Hobart Libby, Lewiston High
school; (3), English in the Secondary
Schools" Professor NJ. L. Chapman.
Bowdoin College; 90 "Sohool Athletics, 2
Principal j. e. Nelson, Waterville High
school. Grammar School Section, Senate
president-topio. Omitted States His
tory" (a) "Outline of Plan Of Study. :"
o. NJ. Lord, superintendent of schools,
Portland; (b) Methods of Teaching, "
% period of the Revolution Miss
Alice l, Evans, Emerson school, Portland
(s) Period of Developments OF the
States Miss Mary 2. Kilby. Jackson
tion with Nature Study II. W. Shaylor.
Portland; "Grsmmar in Grammar
Schools, = Robert G. Metoalf. supervisor
OF schools, Boston, Primary and Kinder
garten Sections, miss Adelaide v. Finch,
Prin. Normal Training School. Lewis
ton, prssident-9. 30-(l) "The Kindergar-
ten, Miss Virginia w. Evans, Kinder
ear Lewiston pnpd Rs sahoo q
Miss Mary s. SNOW. superintendent
schools, Bangor; (s,. "The Spiral Plan
of Teaching Arithmetic" Mr.. W. G..
Bradford, sub master Allston school, Bos-
ton, MASS. "a vertical Writing" Mr..
Albert W. Clark, Melrose, Mass. former
~ of the Fitchburg State Normal school.
Schools. Representatives Hall. Hon. W..
w. Stetson, president-2. 90" What Can
We Teach in Our Common Schools?"
Mrs. Maggie M. Biaelow. Easton,
sPhonics In the Common Schools" Mrs.
Jennie e. Nichols, Bristol: History in
Rural and Village Schools, Mr. j. d.
Murphy. Lee; Technical Grammar in
the Common Schools Mr.. o. A. Nor
ten, Bar Harbor; The School of 1896
Its Work and WORTH Hon. j. W. Brad
bury, Augusta; The School Of To-day
Its Merits and Defects" Mr.. Robert G.
Metcalf, supervisor of schools, Boston
ssIhe School OF l975,'' Mr.. Scion Chase,
Chase's Mills.
Evening. "The Old and New Ways Of
Treating History" John Fiske, Lift. D.,
LII. ID.
Thursday Forenoon. 900 "The value
of Music Of the Public Schools Miss
Olive Winslow, Dexter; "Some Features
of the Present School Movement" Prin-
cipal Adelaide v. Finch, Lewiston; THE
Local Interest in the Local School, Hon.
W. w. Stetson; business.
Special rates have been arranged for the
railroads and at the Augusta hotels.