Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-08-30
State Normal School No. 2.

Prof. E. d. Murdaugh, principal, and
Hon. Clayton Purnell, member of the
State Board of Education, attended
meeting of the latter body in Baltimore
Wednesday.
Thence Mr.. Murdangh went to
Baston to assist Prof. Chaplain in the
conduct of the Talbot county teachers
institute.
The county School Board has awarded
one of the State scholarships to Miss
Hilda Lambert, of Cumberland; the
other to Miss Blanche Burnap, of West
ernport.
To-day J. Edwin Miller, of this place.
will distribute large number of the
prospectus folder in town, and during
next week number will be placed in
residences at Homecoming, Barton,
Westernport, Mt Savage, Eckhart, Vale
Summit etc. Unlike the "dodger,"
this is paper worth taking care of.
Speaking OF one of the prominent
members of the faculty, the Taneytown
RPcord says:
Miss Katharine X. Hobbs has had a num-
Der of years experience in teaching i'll the
public schools of the State, from the lowest
grades to the highest, and was the first
female principal of high school in the
State She is now at Ithaca \. Y, where
she has spent the summer for several years
in attendance upon special courses at Cornell
University.
w. II. Ruby, the veteran editor of that
very excellent newspaper, the Towson
,jo"r""i, prints cut of the school build
ing in his paper this week and writes to
the JOURNAL the sincere trust that the
school will be success" and that
"there is no reason why it should not
be-"
1.-The Baltimore County School Com
missioners, states the Baltimore Nr~s,
"met at Towson Wednesday and ap-
pointed Miss Virgie Pearce, daughter of
the late Thomas E. Pearce, of Stablers-
vile, and Miss Sophia B. Frock, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Joshua Frock, of Stevenson,
Baltimore county, to scholarships in
Normal School No. 2. at Erost burg, Md"
The Annapolis Rep"biirnn says
This school, for the maintenance of which
the last Legislature made provision, will
he opened September 10. Its principal is
Mr.. Edmund ID. Muriaugh, teacher of
wide experience and its vice-principal Mr..
Charles +. Dryden, who so successfully
managed the Annapolis Public School for
the past two years Anne Arundel is en-
titled to two scholarships in this school,
similar to those in the State Normal School
at Baltimore, and we are informed that the
expenses to students will be about the same
as those incident to attendance upon the
Baltimore School.
The "adOptiOn of curriculum for
the School at the State Board meeting
Wednesday was "a matter of some i'm
portance," says the Baltimore Sun:
The course of study will he practically the
same as that at the Baltimore institution
but it will extend over four years. whereas
at the latter school the course covers three
years.
Two additional teachers We're selected for
the Frostburg school. They are Miss Kath-
arine X. Hobbs, who has until recently been
in charge of the department of pedagogy i'll
Washington College, at ChestertOwn, Md
and Miss b. Gertrude Hast, of Cumberland,
If the faculty will teach and insist
upon the best penmanship, including
rules of composition, throughout the
curriculum, and do this successfully, it
will have accomplished incidentally Il
work equal to mastery of the most
specific study. 1t is i'll such penman-
ship most of the outside world sees
scholarship,