Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-13

schools of Sullivan in place OF Edmund
Rideout, who resigned on account of
removal to Massachusetts.
All candidates for admission to
Smith College may take examinations
at their nome schools but have to pass
on French after arrival in Northamp-
ton. or a class of so in French, this
fall. Miss Louise Fuller of Bath was
one of five to pass without condi
ton.
An effort will soon be made to estab-
| fish schoolmasters' club in Bowdoin.
The college is an especially good field
for club of this sort, as at least fifty
of the students are past or present
schoolmasters. The object of the club
Will be partly social, establishing good
Fellowship and a fraterna feeling
among the teachers and partly for
business.
The North Yarmouth Academy is the
best fitting school in Maine to intro
duce the study of the Bible as an cleo
tive. The class now numbers eleven.
| Blakesley's Course in Old Testament
| History Is being used. Miss Mabel
| Mari, Valedictorian of the class of
1900, Bates, is the efficient teacher. To
stimulate effort and thoroughness, one
Of the trustees has offered two prizes
of So each for the best examination
papers covering the work of the year
in this department.
The West Penobscot Teachers Asso-
citation Will hold two days conven-
ton at Corinna, Oct. 70 and -. The
program will be as follows: Friday.
Oct. %, music. G. L. \. orchestra
prayer. Rev II. q. Hoisington. CORN
ma; address Of welcome, Rev. u. A.
Boatright, Corinna; response, +. f.
Dyer, Newport; Manners and Morals
in the Schoolroom." Della Bemis. Cor
inna school Legislation" f. u.
Pratt. North Newport; "Arithmetic in
the Common Schools" with class exer-
else, Miss g +. Emery. Corinna: AT
tendance at Public Schools. Mrs Lue
Friend Carmel: Physi-
ology." f. W. e. Wiggin, Hartlandt
The Teacher out Of School" Hon w.
w. Stetson. Friday evening: Music.
recitation. drill by G. L. 4. students.
music, lecture by Hon. W. W. Stetson.
music. Saturday forenoon: Music.
business. IS. I. l.. Nj Mrs. Ella Aus
tin Exeter. Mrs. f. w. G. Wiggin,
corinna, Miss Jessie Mcguire
Corinth; cooperative Education, %
Rev j. O. Fisher. Garland: Ian
guage," Miss f. NJ Reed. Springfield
Mass. Duties of Parents" Eva NJ
Hilton. Newport: care Of the Eyes, ~
DR.. F. L. Redman. Corinna; school
Management" Elmer r. Eddy,
Corinth; Busy Work" NJ. Edna Grin
nell, Exeter; address, Hon. ". ".
Stetson: intermsson. Saturday after
noon: Sanitary Condition of School
house and Grounds. DR.. G. II. Clough.
Dexter; Number Work" Miss F, NJ.
Reed, Springfield. Mass; Course OF
Study from Primary to Grammar
Grade" Edith V. Curtis, Dexter:
Course of Study in the High School
w. S. Brown. Dexter: Study of Man. "
Rev. II. G. Hoisington, Corinna; Eek
perences of a Superintendent" Lewis
Robinson. NJ D., Carmel: address.
Hon. w W. Stetson.
Miss Alice Welt Of jefferson. is
teaching school in the Murphy district,
West Jefferson. She harnesses her
own team and drives six miles night
and morning. to and from her school.
boarding at home.
! At a meeting. this week of the
teachers Of Auburn. Superintendent
Richardson. who recently took charge
of the Auburn schools. expressed his
views upon the subject of class fivi-
sion. For some time past. Auburn
schools have been under a system
whereby there have been two divisions
in every class, the "a division and
the "B, the object Of such divisions
being to advance those members u a
class who We're better fitted for adj
vancement than their less gifted Or
less studious companions. The super
intendent was of the opinion that
while this system has doubtless some
very material advantages. il never
thelesS possesses defects enough to
condemn it. He pointed out that next
spring there will graduate from the
grammar grade into the high school
grade pupils. who under this system
have taken nine years in eight IN a
certain sense this might be considered
an advantage but in a broader sense it
IS disadvantage. The trouble with
the American scholar today is not that
he is backward and needs to be showed
ahead, not that he is empty and needs
to have his head crammed fun "a over
flowing. The American scholar is n
little bundle of nerves. ana should not
be forced. in consideration of his ulti-
mate mental and physical strength.
beyond his powers. Infant prodigies
do not always make adults Of distin-
gushing mental traits. 1t does not
hurt boy or a girl particle. hr re-
tard the students progress in life. to
be restrained little in this respect
The course of study as outlined in
original method is preferable TO this
subdivision of classes. not alone on
account Of the student who goes
ahead, but for him who is forced to
study in division b" For after all is
said and done the slower student IL
entitled 10 just as much of the teach
cr's time and assistance as his moro
gifted companion. The trouble is. the
scholar who sees his classmate SET
ahead of him and thus made eligible
for quicker promotion. is liable to be-
come discouraged. The smartest bows
do not always make the ablest men.
We cannot be too careful what We do
to discourage any scholar. After
Superintendent Richardson had ex