Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-12-27
IN SESSION,
MaIne Pedagogical Society Be-
gins Annual Meeting,
ra'r Attendance Of Members and
Much Interest Manifested.
"o0'ess Of Welcome by Mayor ritcomb on
Thursday Forenoon.

! irof. Charles f. Cook of Augusta
president OF tn" society. called to ar.
oer at 1880 O'Clock. Rev. c. A. Hay.
"ei OF Augusta. offered prayer.
MS Honor Mayor Lendall Tit,omb
IN behalf OF the city. extended a cor
Nial welcome to the visiting teachers
II said. in part:
ar. President and Members of the Maine
pedagogical Society
am Very glad to welcome you on be
m, M "l cur citizens. We look forward 70
pleasure and hope that on YOUR re;urn
YOU VIII take with you pleasant recollec-
tionS OF Your brief suIourn in Augusta.
w know ana appreciate those rare quail
tues Whlcn combine To make what may
pe called the sweet reasona bleness of th,.
successful teacher in our public schools.
ne demands are greater and reuuir.-
ihthts hlSher than for the individual IL.
'ot 10 carry along Il single punil bu,
YOUR influence is by so much the greater
Truly Your works do follow YOU
icIal! mat Il year or two ago stand
ing where now stand John Fisk. he
scholar, critic and historian delivered 4,
YOU an address which many of YOU no
doubt today recall with pleasure. Sine,
mat time ne has passed to the Great
Hereafter. and among all the honor:s be
slowed upon his as scholar as critic OF
as historian, none We're ranked hight:
ny him than his admitted success as a
100 M III MS HIlSntu ESSAY thu. E3-
con-SnakeSpeare Folly. lie mentions III,
tact OF MS son six years old learning Ia
read. He had had instruction for several
".tks and had finally become abb. to
READ When II was found that the Younger
son. L" whom no attention whatever had
Deen given. WAS also able to read This
ability he had unConst iot.Siy absorbed in
listening 10 the instructions given his el-
ger brother. This power of ACQUISITION
mas been termed the capacity tor uncon-
sCious learning.
The teacher in the public school has a
larger audience than that she for the
time being addresses. and 1T is one of th,.
great advantages OF the public schools
that ii offers to the pupil this opportunity
and thc best have b-lunsed to your pro-
feSSion-non. too high, Hu::c too good To
take pride in the work of instruction
Henry w l.ongfellow, the poe, of the
rs long as the English language is snok-
IN. was a teacher like yourself. otlis
ASaSSlZ, who was at one time one of the
most quoted men in the scientific world
member Of scientific societies all over th..
world, To whom delegations from foreign
lands came as pilgrims TO profit by his
mStruction--Louis Agassiz was a teacher.
HIKE yourself: OF Il simple yei noble pres
encr. his manner betrayed no arrogance
of learning. Nothing could be finer than
the gentle courtesy with which he would
step upon the platform t. address Il class
OF undergraduates with the fiattcring
words. "FrllpW Students.
Asa Gray. the bUtaQist, like LongfelloW
ana Neassiz his name was known and
quoted throughout the world. He WAS
connected either as president or fellow
or correspondent with Il hundred scien-
tiiic societies in every country. RE was
Il fellow ldDOrer and friend of Darwin.
lie was the foremost botanist of this
country and an authority in learned cir
cles Of every civilized cuuntry-thc close
friend CT l-onEiellow and Agassiz. He,
too. was. like Yourself. 4 teacher.
70 cite one more, Il name with winch
to Conjurc interest in an earnest teacher,
James Russell Lowell, whose death a few
who had never looked upon his face.
Longfellow. Gray, Agassiz, Lowell-four
royal names Four names of the highest
eminence. of the highest achievement,
no homer. before whom parliaments
might bow and pigmy kings: Note the
honor of the TEACHERS profession
French recitation from sophomores at
LoIis Agassiz teaching geology
in girls school at Cambridge; Asa Gray
scholars. ard james Russell Lowell
teaching German and Italian verbs at
Harvard. Truly have YOU right to be
proud OF your profession and OF those
who share with YOU its honors and its
labors
May you many times return TO our city
to receive at your coming the warm
Ma nd the glad hand. of welcome. ana to
receive at your departure our benediction
which is due To the members OF a falth-
full profe sson to whom we entrust. OF
all oar treasures, the welfare OF Our dear
err and our beSt-our children
Principal NJ p. Dutton. president of
the Augusta Teachers Association,
then extended the welcome Of the city
aCherS as follows:
Nj. Chairman. Ladies and Gentle
men: | rise in behalf OF the teachers
of Augusta to express to you tneif
greetings at the opening of this meet
ic@ so full of promise. The mayor Oh
our CITY has already extended to you
the welcome of her citizens TO their
For years our Capitol mas
been the rendezvous of politicians win
friends to reward and enemies TO pun
ish Today, she has better fortune
in that she is the Mecca OF Il class ~
our citizens who are not self-seekers.
they acknowledge no poltlcal ooSs.
They speak for the interests OF no rae
tinn or section. The only geosraphlcai
lines known to them are horlzohtai.
epresenting the strata OF educa''ohai
Aeyation There are representative
here of every grade in our education"'
xstem And to these representatives..
~ behalf of an earnest and loyal con-
osit,apcv Of citizen teachers, l extend
nost cordial welcome to our CITY, our
r,hools and our homes. l welcome 9o"
mr. as Rebecca welcomed the thirsty
"a drink at our fountain. but ea'h
earring his own well-filled cup. |" pun
;rtn . common fountain from Whlci
ra NAV all drink. We are glad 10 nave
van come here. not SO much iof "ha'
we have to impart to you. pul io' """'
we expect to receive from you
Ne have to go back only lew yeai
i, tho history of our State wheh every
teacher received his certilica'e' q.
,srad upon his duties. orSaii~eo M
.,or,r and conducted his whole schooi
,ec,rd;nsr to his own particular hotioi
- educational demands. 1t was Oh no
onnseouence to the Halloween teacher
char was taught in the schools OF Gar
amer or Augusta, or how IL Was
Taught. 1t may seem STRANGE Nv.
toachers have learned from inoustriai
Generation and organization. NAM"
farturers have long since known that
thev must have the best MACHINERY
IA the most skilled operatives. Inc
nnlo wore slow to learn that they
n,,st have better teachers ana bettef
n,stbods. But a few leading spirits III
o,r State began to consult WIN ohS