Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-10-06
IN THE scno0LR00m.
What Is Being Done In Maine ior the Ad.
vancement Of Education.

Principal o. NJ. Heath OF the Milford
nigh school has opened an evening school.
Percy c. Giles OF Boothbay. Bowdon
1900. has been appointed principal OF Den
mark nigh school.
The villare school at Addison has been
closed on account of an outbreak OF
measles.
The Lewiston school board has in
creased the salary of the sewing teacher,
$50. making ii s525.
Miss Edith Thompson has been elected
an assistant teacher in the Lewiston
grammar school.
The class of 81. Bates College. are al
ready planning a big decennial reunion at
commencement in 1901.
A high school has been commenced at
North Etna under the instruction of L.
+. TOothaker of DiXmont.
Miss Amy Wood of Danariscotta. has
gone to Concord. y. H., where she has a
position in the Merrimac school.
The annual meeting of the Lincoln
County Educational Association will be
tober g and 30.
J. D. Murphy has resigned his position
as superintendent of the schools of Lee
to take effect at the Close of the fall
term.
Miss L. Marion Wilson of Denmark
goes this week to Columbia University
New York City. for special course in
science.
The Rumford school board has voted to
name the school now being erected. the
Holland school, in honor Of one of the
residents of that town.
The high school debating club at Milo
mas organized for the term with E. f.
Morse, president; Amy Shaw. vice-presi-
dent; Bertha Clark, secretary and treas
urer.
graduating class to college this fall the
largest number to go from a fitting school
IN this State. and the second largest III
New England.
hean Prof; ,aho,I H. J. Chase, Bates 81; who has
Mass, school has accepted position as
principal OF the Holten high school OF
DdnverS, Mass.
Miss Fannie B. Cragin. Riverton. has
Chebeague island school. and has com
menced her duties. Miss Crxgin was a
graduate from the Gorham Normal school
last spring.
Supt Hill of the Rockland schools. re-
schOol gift of $50 with which to pur-
chase apparatus needed in the study of
botany.
Returns from the various schools in
Rumford show that there are now regis
tered six hundred and fifty-two pupils
Of these hundred and eighty-three are
IN rural schools and four hundred sixty
nine are in the schools of the village cor
poration.
Last year William r. Dean of Bath.
TOOK a years preparatory course at the
University of Maine, so as to enter Cor
nell University this fall. His entrance
examination proved of such excellence,
and as he showed knowledge of what was
taught in the freshman class that the
FACULTY without hesitation advanced him
TO the sophomore class.
The Rockland public library recently re-
ceived from the Beethoven Club of that
city a very valuable set of encyclopedia
on music. The encyclopedia comprise the
following standard works: Concise his
tory of music. H. G. Bonavfa Hunt; Bee
thoven's pianoforte sonatas explained
Ernst Won Elterlein: technical study of
the art of pianoforte playing. c. A.
Merz; Biographical dictionary OF musi-
clans. Theodore Baker; dictionary of rnu-
sical terms. J. Stanier and W. A. Bar
rett; dictionary of music and musicians,
vols. and index. Sir George Grove.
The new Macarthur gymnasium at
W Westbrook Seminary is rapidly nearing
completion The structure is of brick,
and is IS feet long, by 40 feet and seven
inches wide. The trimmings are Of free
stone. and galvanized iron. 1t is two sto-
rles high. and from the ground to the
crest of the roof measures 80 feet. From
the ground to the caves the distance is q
the second is about this. same but a large
portion of this latter is in the roof. The
gym is situated on the north side of
the chapel. or Alumni hall and faces in
the same direction as this building Its
entrance on the front is of the arched
vestibule pattern. with doors leading to
the left and right within the portico. This