Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-11
IN THE SCHOOLROOM.
What is Being Done in Maine for the
Advancement Of Education,
Hancock School Superintend ents Meet-Com
merciaI Course in Bangor u. S. a Success.

Al! of the schools in Arson with one
exception have Joined the School I'm
provement League Of Maine.
The young ladies in the Brunswick
high school have formed secret so
ciety known as the Delta Sigma Theta.
There are 107 students at the Leavitt
Institute, Turner, now. and great
deal of interest is taken in the classes.
Miss Dora Copeland. a graduate of
the Bangor Training School. is teach
ing school in the kingsbury district.
Brewer.
Mrs. Mabel E. Davis. assistant at the
School street grammar school, Ellis
worth, has resigned owing to ill health
Miss Minnie H. Moore will complete
the term.
The Lewiston school board has en-
gagged Mrs. A. l.. Tibbetts of Lewiston
formerly teacher at the grammar
school. as teacher of a special school
for pupils who are deficient in special
branches. Her salary will be $425.
Miss Mary p. Eden of Portland. has
been engaged as instructor in stenog-
raphy at GrayS Lewiston Business
college, and has entered upon her
duties. Miss Eden is teacher of ten
years experience in her department.
The model teachers Of the Lewiston
Normal Training School are taking
Jean Gowdy's Ideal and Programs. q
helpful and inspiring little book. Later
they will study Dexter and Garlick's
Psychology Applied to the Schooroom.
This is an English book and one of the
best products of the year.
The commercial course in the Ban
gor high school is a great success in
every way. OF the $50 students in the
school. 100 are taking this course. en-
bracing stenography, typewriting.
bookkeeping. commercial correspond
| ence. banking, with an English course
consisting of rhetoric, commercial
arithmetic, algebra, geometry. English
| and general history, English and
American literature. This is a certifi-
cate course of three years. while those
students taking an elective course for
one more year will receive diplomas.
Ioring, Short & Harmon have given
| to the Maine School for the Deaf, Port
| land. handsome Rogers group repre-
senting an incident in Shakespeare s
| King Lear. 1t has been decided to de-
vote the S25 recently given to the
| school by Mrs. l.. D. NJ. Sweat to pro-
viding instruction for the larger girls
| in dressmaking. A competent teacher
has been secured. She will give 25 les
| sons for the sum named. This ought
to prove of great practical advantage
to those who receive the instruction
There are now II pupils in the school.
| This nln1hpr file tho hnIcn 70
| pacity and there is some crowding.
| The teachers of Ashland, have an
pointed the following students on the
editorial board of the school paper:
Edtorin- chief, Carrie J. Crocker; first
assistant. Whitfield Routh: second as
sistant, Lizzie A. Winslow; local edi-
tor Lottie Clayton business manager,
Ernest L. Coffin; first assistant, Benja-
min Wooster; second assistant, Ella
Baston; current events, Jessie Haynes:
| literary. Ada McNally. The paper will
be put out in magazine form and will
contain about 50 pages. The students
and people of the town are interested
in the publication and the prospect of
a good school paper is being welcomed
by all. The name will be the High
School Organ.
/ The Bethel News says that the pupils
in the Sunday River school have or
ganized a branch Of the School I'm
| provement League of Maine. Much
interest has been manifested and con-
siderable work has been DONE There
are at present 80 members of which IA
are scholars. The first movement to-
ward improvement was to clean the
I schoolhouse. Some successful attempts
| have been made to beautify its in
terror. Enough money has already
: been collected to purchase a large flag.
and there is now some talk of starting