Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-12-27

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that they can do Independent work in
\ the high school. The meeting seemed
To favor a less number of subjects of
study at a given time.
The question should the State school
| furtls be apportioned on the basis of
average attendance or upon the age
of residents OF the town." raised the
liveliest discussion Of the afternoon.
W. G.. Malett of Pennington. favored
apportionment on the basis of average
attendance but Principal Albro f.
Chase of Portland. thought that plan
| would not be fair 10 the cities. as they
cannot take in pupils till they are )
| ve.rs old while in the country they
| take them at ].
| Considerable discussion ensued on
the subject. participated in by Miss
| Adele NJ To2ier of Old Town. l. {.
| phillips OF Lewiston. and others. MIR.
Mallett moved that the changes suS-
gested by him be recommended to the
Legislature. but the motion was lost by
vote of II to :.
| The latter topics on the list were
taken from the line of general discus
sion and assigned to one of those pres
ent in the following order:
What measures can the superin-
tendent take TO secure Il higher grade
of teaching talent:" |. {. Phillips,
Lewiston.
| VIVA, are some reasons for when
committees should exercise their pre-
rogative of eXcusng pupils from at
tendance from SCHOOL," +. T. Wyman,
| Waterville.
How to bring teachers q recognize
their mistakes of method and manage
ment." Chas. r. Tilton. Bangor.
What studies or portions of studies
should be dismissed from the common
school course" Supt Minard. Rock
land.
, Tenure Of office Of superintendent,
Supt. Colby. Skowhesan.
| Is there need Of a state organlZa-
| ton of superintendents and commit
tees?" Miss Adele NJ. Tozier. Ola
| Town.
! Last evening the hall of the House
was well filled with az audience of
ladies and gentlemen. who. with mani
| fest delight and pleasure listened 10
| the addresses of Professor James :.
| Stevens OF the University Of Maine. and
President Charles l.. White Of Colby
! College. Eoth addresses We're literary
gems
An Sorts ard Condition Of Men.
| was the subject Of Prof. stevens ad-
dress. 1t was breezy ana lively from
beginning to end. Its humor was con
tagious ana fetching.
| In what is perhaps the noblest poem
| in Hebrew literature" began the pro-
| feSsor. the writer has dared to choose
for his characters personages no less
| august than the onGipCtent Jehovah.
| ana those associated with him in the
| work Of creation.
This is an age when We are attract
ed by heroes, and in this respect it j.
| by no means unique. History would b.
| dull reading if mankind struck a dead
level and no one was beyond the aver
| age. II is well 10 praise our soldiers, To
cherish our men Of letters and to give
| reverence 10 our leaders in intellectual
and moral fields. But for just once
| and only for about half an hour let US
| forget Longfellow and kipling. Wash
| nston and Nelson-let US even forget
| Dewey and Roosevelt ana consider
| man.
Call To mind the men who have in
| iuencel You most and best: are they
not thOs. who have laughed the loud
/ est and the longest and who seen in the
earth nothing bad except the imaGin-
| ingS Of the disaffeCted? I am making
no plea for unrelieved frivolity-but |
must insist on this: il You are inclined
10 sing 1 Want to Re An Angel don't
| think it betokens Il high state Of grace
but consult specialist on stomach
| troubles.
Are you by example and precept
teaching Your charge that the world is
bad; that man is bad that God has
| lost his hold and the devil is in COM
| mand? If 50. YOU would better resign
at once. The world belongs to God: ne
pronounced ii good ages ago, and il
has been growing better ever since.
! Among all the endowments which
escaped from Pandora's box. that for
| which we as teachers should be the
most grateful is the faculty of insplra-
| ton. After the creation the angels
We're in turn asked what they would
| contribute toward the wel-being Of
man. One offered to endow him with
| intellectual power. another with physi-
cal strength. still another with plcnti-
| iui u cl'S. BETTER imam all there
| there was the suggestion Of an help
meet; but better even than this. unless
we may consider the two gifts synony-
| nous, was the promise of perpetual in
spiration.
| Nv hen do you a. teachers do vour best
| WORK? Just after Your principal or super
| int"ndent has taken you one side ana
said h" was pleased with YOU. one ,il-
couraging word may change your plpis
| nay OF gloom 10 one Of sunshine Every
| one can inspire; everyone is an ideal L.
someone.
! And let us not lie ;.-t'aih lest W..
! should inspire our pupils with too lofty
| ideals. Tn" inspiration 81 an ideal h1s
| produced the great mon nf all ages
| " hen one fails to keep within mailing
| distance Of his ideal, he has for himself
exhausted the % Ssihlit!eS of lite.
| mere is a classification of mankind
with which W" as teachers are very ia
miiiar. and which it should he, our han
! lhh"sS to try to obiit.ratc as rtr,;dly NJ |
pcSslble. | REFER to the man who is al
u'ated ana the man who is IInedUcatr,! |
I An cdTc5ted man is worth more in III,
markets Of the world today than on. viii |
is Nn"ducatcd. There are rich men who
ar" not educated and there are educated
m"n who ar" not rich; but an cd;cation |
greatly increases ones prpSpcC;S Inr III |