Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-07-30
SUMMER SCHOOL.
Fifty-five Teachers Already Attending
Its Session.

The summer school for the teachers of
Orange and adjacent counties opened
Monday in the High school building with
gratifying attendance that has gradually
increased untu now 80 teachers are
enrolled as follows:-
Mandene f. Abbott, Mabelle A. Al
drich, Mabel B. Doubleday, Bessie Smith,
South Royalton; Clark II. Abel, Cora r.
Fuller, NJ. Lou Whitney, Granville, Ida
v. Adams, Mary E. B. Mclean, South
Barre; Celia NJ. Alger, r. Blanche Carpen-
ter, Florence Hemenway, Alice II. Moul-
ton, Chelsea; Bessie +. Cave, Barre; Lii
Ian f. Chadwick, West Brookfeld; Alice
X. Chedel, Annie L. Chedel, Gaysville;
Blanche Z. Douglass, Post Mills; Altha
Dutton, Annie Dutton, Royalton; Fred L.
Drew, Jennie i. Dyke, Carrie Eaton, Ida
| Flint, c. Kate Howard. Edyth F. Rainey,
j. Hamilton Riley, Myrtle Rogers, Winnie
Rogers, Nettye L. Robbins, NJ. Lucina
Saxton, Jennie Stewart, Florence V. Ter
~, Randolph; Ethel Eaton, Perone
I Mason, Rochester; Caroline S. Ely, YER
shire; Matte z. Fortier, Mary I. Taisey,
/ Newbury Center Ethel Folsom, Tun-
I bridge; Annie Flint, Marion Lord, EN-
ma l.. Taplin, Washington; Frances Han
/ Ion, Braintree; Minnie E. Holden, Nellie
\ II. Tilden, Northfeld; Mary Houston
1 STAFFORD; Alice NJ. Hyzer, Randolph
Center; Rena Perkins, Barnard; Jessie
Stanton, Roxbury; L. May Sargent, North
Randolph; Jessie NJ spalding, Harriet NJ.
/ Wood, Bethel; Margaret {. Willard, North
Hartland; Harriet Webster, Belvidere,
I III. II Is probable that a larger mum Der
will be here for the second week Of the
school.
The work, as outlined in last weeks
/ issue, is being taken up with Supt. Demp-
/ sey OF ST. Johnsbury as lecturer on Arith-
metic, Miss Charlotte 5. Dorman of Har-
rington, Mass, on Drawing, Miss Grace
\ Z. Thomas of Boston on Geography and
Supt. Davidson of Turner's Falls, Mass, on
School Management The topics are
handled in manner both to interest and
| instruct, and many practical suggestions
are given for embodyment in future work.
4 State Supt. w. E. Ranger OF Montpelier
I addressed the assembly Tuesday after
noon, congratulating the teachers on the
\ size Of their school, which outnum bers
/ the one in session at Burlington, and
/ thanking them IN the name of the 10000
children in Vermont for the earnestness
Of purpose and the interest displayed in
| their attendance.
He then contrasted the schools Of rs
years ago, in which the pupils were
I thoroughly grounded in the three RS, to
4 those OF the present day with their en-
riched curriculums in which "reading,
/ iriting and irithmeticn sometimes seem to
be almost crowded out OF sight. Ii was
necessary 80 years ago to be able to read,
write and cypher, and little more was
called for, but as distant communities
have been brought into closer communi-
cation through modern inventions and
appliances, broader knowledge is required
to prosecute life's struggle successfully.
I Il is the part of the schools now to train
boys and girls so that they can enter upon
I life with equal opportunities with each
other, with the boys and girls of other
states and other countries. Drawing,
whose Introduction was at first strongly
Il l. A. 4. -
OF study, youthful training in that line
l being absolutely essential il one is TO
enter the ranks of skilled artisans.
! The task of education is laid upon the
women OF the state-and upon the young
women at that Il IS the aggregate effort
OF the three thousand or more teachers in
Vermont that must accomplish this re-
suit. We are proud OF the part Vermont
ers have taken in the past AT home and
abroad, and the hands of the teachers are
even now shaping the future develop
ments TO be accredited to the state.
/ Teachers, should understand and appre-
/ eiate Alright the relations their labors bear
to the issues OF the future.
The complaint is often made that good
teachers are constantly giving up their
work TO accept matrimonial positions,
and a Rutland paper lately advised the
/ eity's school directors to make such selec-
\ tions hereafter as to preclude the possible
] ltN OF lntlr btlnk itll IN the luFcn III Nuhl
way again. This, Supt. Ranger said, was
\ bad advice. The wise directors OF Ner
mont will never select instructors, who
cannot be reasonably suspected OF teach
I ing school from choice.
Between fifteen and sixteen hundred
dollars are being expended by the state OF
Vermont in summer schools this season,
and this money will be simply wasted IL
the teachers fail to take advantage OF the
\ opportunities offered them. He urged his
/ hearers TO acquaint themselves with the
educational history Of Vermont and
school law, and never to be satisfied with
/ anything less than a first-grade certificate.
He told them not TO despise the day Of
small things. The less children know, the
more chance for the teachers, who should
/ remember that they get their living out OF
the Ignorance OF their pupils.
/ He thought that hoodlumism was be-
/ ginning to assume alarming proportions
in the schools and cited the hazing Of a
small boy in Bloomington by his mates,
who made him walk through fire and
otherwise abused him, the lad dying two
weeks later from, the superintendent be-
/ lieved, the injuries received. IL is the
work Of the teacher 10 instill in the minds
/ of her charges correct views OF life and a
decent regard for the rights of others,
eliminating the savage and substituting
the gentleness and mercy that will forbid
such horrible atrocities. Supt. Ranger
was warmly applauded at the close OF his
address.
| Hon. Mason 5. Stone, lately returned
I from the Philippines, will speak in the
Baptist church tomorrow evening at 5
o'clock. and the general public is cordially
/ invited to hear him. This evening a re-
/ ception for the teachers viii be held in the
vestry OF the Congl church from till 10.
/ So far as is known the summer school in
I Randolph is the largest IN the state. Bur-
/ lington has 20 teachers, Morrisville 81,