Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-01-27

cal supervision have been printed and
sent out t. the principals of schools.
The attendance At the winter term ot
North Yarmouth Academy is somewhat
larger than usual. The class in English
history under the instruction OF the pin
cipal ana the prcccptrcss class in Ncrgil
are showing marked progress. The new
teachers, Miss iiulbrook. the first as
sistant. and Miss Furbush, who has
charge of the art department are doing
excellent work.
The Madawaska Training School FIT.
Kent. begun work again on Monday
after vacation Of two weeks with
an attendance of one hundred and
three. OF this number forty-three are
in the dormitory connected with
the school. The senior class numbers
fourteen, of whom nine are girls. The
present term will continue twelve
weeks.
Several new volumes. including books
Of history and reference have been adde,.
T. the Yarmouth high school library.
Among them are lives ni Hannibal aud
julius Caesar. THE four tltsses ~ inc
school have organized ana each class h31
elected a full set of class officers. The
entertainment soon to he given by thu
senior class. consisting of the military
drama Enlisted for the War: or. tn
Home Guard ana the amusing farce
Of the hest that the school has given for
some years.
In regard to the subject of teachers
salaries, Supt. r. NJ Ballet Of Spring
We used a. grade the salary 81 the teach
er according to the size Of the pupil. Ap-
ply that to other lines of work, and see
where you would come out. When thu
that charges - cents tor his cali, and
when his grandfather gets sick get one
that charges $50 The time is coming
when We VIII see that the man or woman
who teaches a baby is as important ana
should be paid as much as the one who
teaches the older children"
The pupils of Miss Martha E. Mays
school. North Haven, have been compi
ing Longfellow booklet. comprising -
lections copied from LonSfellows poems,
the past term. Friday afternoon they
had IAN afternoon with Longtellow' AMI
it proved most happy and successful
occasion. Supt. Beverage WAS present
and during the afternoon made some re-
marks. in the course Of which he took o.
caSion to compliment the pupils for the
diligence they have displayed. Miss
May presented each pupil with a por-
trait of Longfellow. together with one o1
his home in Cambridge.
A local school improvement league
was organized recently in the Cum
mings school. Greene. Each member
of the league is wearing a dainty little
badge furnished by State Supt. Stetson.
The object of the league is to interest
the parents and pupils in the care Of
the schoolhouse and furnishings. and
add to the efficient equipment of the
school. Already one can see an inn
proved appearance in the interior Of
the schoolroom. Pictures now adorn
the walls, and instead Of the pupils
trying to see how much they can dea-
troy, as in days Of yore, they now try
their best to keep the schoolroom nice
and homelike. The league has already
purchased a dictionary for the use of
the school, and the next purchase will
be globe. Last Friday, the closing
day of the term. very interesting
program was carried out. All these
things have been brought about
through the persistent efforts of the
teacher Mrs. Frances f. Wright.
The Laboratory method, so-called, of
teaching literature, employed in the
Lewiston high school by Miss Mary
Stevens is even more success |
full than usual, this term. In this |
instead of studying about the
authors first, some of their typical
works are made the subject of study. |
Beginning with Chaucer the school |
now has illustrations of the work Of |
all the leading English authors up to |
the time of Tennyson. During the |
senior year, six weeks are devoted to
about those authors with
whose works the class has already be |
come somewhat familiar. Miss ST.
vens, who also has the botany class
is combining botany with literature to
a certain extent as the class are now
reading Thoreau and Burrows. In the
literature class, up-to-date literature
is not neglected and the pupils have
lately been studying Richard Carvel''
and Janice Meredith"