Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-13
Maine Educational News.

The lunch counter was resumed at tho
Portland high school this week.
The publication TO be issued by the
Rockland high school will be called
"Whims."
Miss Belle G. Sampson of Phillips, has
been engaged TO teach the school al
Flagstaff.
Miss Edith Gerry Of South Robbinston
has been elected superintendent of schools
| in Robbinston.
The graduating exercises of the class
| of 80. Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, Will
take place June I'D.
Prof. +. c. Thompson haH been elected
principal of Lindsey high school in Shap-
| leigh for the fall term.
Rev FIR. Collins, president of ST. Mary
| college, Van Buren,, has been empowered
by an act of the recent Legislature, to
confer degrees Of art on the alumni Of the
| institution.
Miss Harriet Irving. daughter Of II. d
| IRVING Of Caribou. captured first prize
IN a public oratOrical contest of high
school scholars at Brooklyn, Iowa, April
| -Sth, where she Is stopping villa relatives.
Frank II. Hanson Of Newark, y. J.. son
Of the late DR.. J. II. Hanson of Water
the meeting Of the National Educational
Association to be held at Los Angeles,
Cal.
The Portland public library has lately
made an addition in the shape of books
Been Mf4ry J5 9nf gSaAG ns| books d haye
tion and nearly every class of literature
IS represented except fiction.
The annual convention Of the Waldo
county Teachers Association Will be held
N Winterport on the 18th and 18th of
May. Among the speakers will be- Miss
Snow Of Bangor, State Superintendent ".
w. StetsOn and 4. f. Richardson Of Cas-
tine.
At the close of the present term Miss
Harriet Rhoades will resign her position
ls assistant in the Machias high school
to enter Boston University. Miss Mar
on Pierce of Gardiner, graduate of Mt.
Holyoke college, will succeed Miss
Rhoades.
Miss Harriet Cousens Of Biddeford has
been notified by Supervisor of Schools 7.
D. Boynton of 1thica, \. y, that she has
been unanimously recommended in
structor of the department of English
and pubic speaking of the Ithica high
school The Lthica high school is one Of
the first in the country and there Were
many candidates for the position Miss
Cousens has secured. She will begin her
duties in September a a salary of $500
Tor the first year, which is afterward to
be increased.
In these days of schooreom decoration
more interest is taken in pictures than
formerly and prints of great paintings
fill the shop windows where formerly
cheap chromos had place. In this con-
nection, we print by request, for preser-
walton by those interested a list of the
.welVe great pictures of she world, ac-
eording 10 a judgment Which is widely
accepted The list is ass.feliows: l. Ra-
phael's ''TransiiguratiQn:~ in the Va't-
can. Rome; ?. Raphasl's "Sistine Ma
lonna, in the Dresden sallery; ), Guido's
AURORA in the ;Palazzo Rospisios.
Rhine; T., Leonardo da ,Niuefs Last Sup
per" in Milan; 5, MichtS Angeles Last
Judgment in the Sistine chapel Rome.
!. Titian's Assumptions: in the academy
At Venice. =. Rubens; %Desrent from the
Cross Antwerp. cathedral; S." REM
orandt's Might Wa-cfy. IN Amsterdam
gallery; 9. Fra Angelioo' 5. cGoronation of
E 2S s Adorat h1nt Of the ~ chureh
IF St. Bavou. Ghent;. Il, -Murillos I'm
naculate Conception. - Louvre, Paris r,
Holbeip : MADONNA" in the Dresden
gallery.-Portland Advertiser. = -.