Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03
IN THE SCHOOL WORLD.
Waat is Being Done for the Advancement OIL
Education in Maine and Elsewhere.

some 5000 volumes, will receive a number
of new books shortly.
The selectmen of Mechanic Falls are
preparing to establish the public library
meeting.
The Rockland public library contains
about 53uV volumes and has Il circulation
averaging about 40 day.
The first term of the Kindergarten at
Dover has been very successful. Over
thirty five children have attended.
Miss Vena Richards has been appointed
supervisor of schools at Mexico, TO sue
coed f. A. Robinson, resigned.
Owing to i'll health, Miss Addie Young,
training school at Fort Kent, has been
compelled to abandon her work and re-
turn to her home at Van Buren,.
c; II. Lincoln, Phi. d., formerly teacher
University OF Pennsylvania. assistant IN
historical department He is co-worker
with Mr.. MacMasters in the preparation
of the popular MacMasters' histories for
colleges.
The evening school at Bar Harbor in
Charge of Fred A. Roberts of Biddeford.
opened recently, in the high school build
ing with an attendance OF is pupils. AMI
a large addition to the school Is expected
within few days.
her position as teacher of French and
elocution in the Rumford Falls high
scnooi and will soon go TO Philadelphia,
where she has secured position as lee
turer of Delsarte and expression in the
pubnc schools OF that city.
The Buekfield high school, principal
wl.h a lyceum, during which was dis
Ia should be annexed to the United
States. Affirmative. Irish, Mayhem and
AUSTIN; negative, irish. Forbes and irish.
A valuable little pamphlet entitled
Aids to Literary Composition. including
rules for punctuation and capitalization.
has been issued by II. A. Moore, princ
pal of the Ellsworth high school. 1t Is
intended for use in high schools ana
academies.
An Island Falls teacher has organized a
good behavior league in her school; her
pupils signing the pie21e Of the league
which binds them among other things, 10
abstain from using profane and vulgar
language and to be in their homes at /
certain hour in the evening. 1t has
wrought a decided Improvement in the
behavior of her pupils.
A German author, q. Solomon. has
written a treatise in which he RECON-
mendS that children should not be sent
to school, till their seventh year, that in
the first year three hours a day should
be the maximum of brain work; and that
the bodily health should be looked after
with special care from the ninth to the
twelfth year.
Hiram Powers, the distinguished Amer
lean sculptor once said. The great need
of our country is more education of the
heart. Educate the hearts of the people
and the heads will take care of them
selves Give in your schools rewards 10
the, good boys. not to the smart ones.
God gives the intellect. The boy should
not be rewarded for that. The great
danger of our country is from its smart
men.
Superintendent of Schools Royal T..
Gould has notified the Biddeford teachers
al nj 10 Ypal mi y1,ttS
not be administered to scholars for fail
ure in studies. No rule of this kind had
ever been promulgated, the teachers be-
ing allowed to use their own judgment as
to the kind of punishment best adapted
to individual cases.
The English Parliament has authori-
lied system of disablement allowances
and pensions in old age for all teachers in
come into operation April 1899 Hereafter
teachers must satisfy the education de-
partment as to their physical capacity;
they must resign at the age of e. years
and contribute yearly to the superannua-
ton fund.
The rarity of good English among chill
dren is due TO our own carelessneSs,
which exerts a greater and more lasting
influence over them than the protecting
enVlronS of the schooroom. We should
realize our responsibility to use our no.
bic language with propriety and to keep
our assertions within the bounds of truth
So we shall not only set good example
to the children about us. but we shall in
crease our own self espect.-Indianapo
lis News
A Lewiston school teacher saws: al
like the plan of MIR. Mason of ward two
for Il tree planting association in eacn
ward. 1t would help to interest the boys
IN the city government. a thing that we
find it very hard to accomplish. The city
government would have sort of over
sight of the work of this association. %
course, through its street commissioner.
/ haN of tor
the school boys on Arbor day is always
confined to the school yard WHY not
set out trees along the bare city street,
, The work of Miss Ida A. Yetton OF
Lewiston, as teacher of sewing and nee
preciated more by the mothers than Is
generally supposed. The other day a lit
tie girl from the intermediate school
mad been at work and had dropped Il
pettcoat she was making. and picked l!p
the garment; She looked at it, critically
ana ana sad 10, ma Mamma, you are feally do
That hem is not even. Why. I am
ashamed of it. | wouldn't have my
teacher see that for the world. You must
take it out and do it over. Shall / do Ii
for you? For a moment the mother was
rather angry TO be corrected by one :
nine years-old daughter in the matter Of
sewing. Is not pleasant on first consider
alton. But the good woman was Pleased
and herself tells the story.
70 our mind. geography becomes most
when it accompanies the read
ing of history and travels and the news
of the week. The Fashoda question gets
more interesting when one turns to his
atlas and sees how Fashoda controls an
important part of the sources of the
Nile. Then if France held Fashoda she
could do great damage to Egypt which
England will not permit And while 80
much is being said about the Philippines
1t Is well to look them up Locate Ma
Mia. Hong Kong. Shanghai Pekin. Find
Russias place to the north, and Ja-
pan s. and on the south French China
That will make it easier to understand
our position in the Far East. One of the
best things the school can do is to devel-
OPP IL habit of using the atlas when read
ing the neWS.-LewiSton Sun.
We would have the children of our pub
ne schools taught. among other things,
that they are citizens of Rockland,
whose affairs ultimately are to fall into
their keeping That loyalty for ones
home town is a virtue to be cultivated
That whatever makes for the adjournment
OF the city in the way of public improve
ments and the ornamentatiOn of private
estates confers benefit in which all may
share. That it is their privilege and
should be a pleasure to help make their
city the fairest in the land. Then we
would have them shown, for one thing.
that the scattering OF waste paper along |
the streets, is an indication of slovenli-
ness and i'll training. The streets leading
away from Rockland's school buildings |
are usually marked by quantities Of
ragged white paper, brought by the
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