Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-26
in THE scHooL-ROOM.
What is Being Done in Maine for the
Advancement of Education.

opened with an entering class of 1S
Oscar Fl. IIoss has been elected in
structor at the Lewiston Manual
Training school.
owing to the crowded conditions OF
the schools there is talk of building Il
new High school building at West
brook.
The number of scholars enrolled at
the .Thomaston High school this term is
&C. The graduating class is the largest
for many years 1t now numbers IS.
Miss Mary T. Frost has resigned he"
position as teacher in the SprinGvale
schools, and will enter the Bridgewater,
Mass, Normal school as a student.
r.. NJ. Tucker has resigned his posi-
ton as principal of the Tenants Har-
Dor High school to accept a situation at
Great Darlington, Mass, where he IS
to teach sciences and mathematics.
Stanley c. Larry, Bates SO, has en-
tered upon new duties as head master
of the Cohasset High school, Cohasset,
Mass, at an increase in salary OF
$1400 a year.
The entering class at Castine Normal
school numbers to date over 40 MEM
bers with more to come. The total
number IN all of the classes is 125 but
there are ten or Is more students who
have not yet arrived
The Portland free evening school has
opened with very good attendance. 1t
is expected that the attendance will
reach $50. The majority of the pupils
are young men and women who work
1iy.i, hn nd
spend their evenings at the school.
Miss Sarah Roberts of Caribou, has
been engaged as assistant in the Fort
Fairfield High school instead of Miss
Bessie Watson of Winchendon, Mass
who before receiving notice of her cleo
ton by the school board at Fort Fair
field, had accepted a more lucrative
position elsewhere.
Belfast is represented at the various
colleges as follows: Miss Florence f..
and Edith F. Dunbar at Mt. Holyoke;
Miss Abbie O. Stoddard at Wellesley;
Alphonso Wood, Karl Mcdonald, Percy
Simmons, Albert w. Stevens and Frank
w. Twombley at University of Maine,
and Percival w. Keent at Colby.
Dr. Seth c. Gordon has presented to
Academy, of which he is president, the
old stone schoolhouse adjoining the
academy campus which is to be thor
oughly repaired and converted into a
class room. The academy has been
madE free for the town pupils and the
schaofhotse ia 10 longer needed for the
viii ge school,
Among the students from North
Yarmouth Academy, who are attending
Bates College this fall are Rev. John
Harold Gould, N. Y. A. 99. Bangor
Theological Seminary 02. Bates '04;
Mary Eleanor Walton, N. Y. A. 1900,
Batas~'e5: Charles Elwood Brooks, N
Y. 4. 1901, Bates 'O6; Annie G..
Ricliirds, Emma L. Allen, N. Y. A.
1929 Eatess'G6 and Lillian L. Latham,
N. X A. '99, Post Graduate O1, Bates
'07. 49,
There are. few if any Maine towns
that dare represented in more institu-
tions than is Rockland. The following
list shows the number of pupils, and
the schools and colleges they attend:
Harvard Law school-Charles w. Lit
t'efield; University of Maine-John
May Ralph Bird Lucien Thomas.
McLain, Raymond Kittredge, Walter
Frost William D. Hall and Sidney
Bird; Bowdoin College Austin Spear,
Ensign Otis, Chester Wiggin, and F.
&. Doherty; Bates Colege-Ephraim
Colson; Tufts College-Charles Chaplin
and Harold Haskell: Hebron Academy
Robert Messer; ST. Pauls school
Francis Butler and Francis Wight
ID,,AI i
Elizabeth Fuller and Marion Cobb;
Westbrook Seminary-Alice Williams
and Elsa Chaplin Pennington Normal
school-Martha Simmons, Mertie Colt,
Grace Harrington, Martha Bartlett,
Marion Knight, Mabel kalloch, Mary
Hall, Blanche Smith and Maud Smith;
Mt. Observation-Disclosures. Wentworth;
Wheaton Seminary-Caro Lttlefield
and Lena Thorndike; New England
Conservatory of Music-Alice Webb
Baltimore Medical Colege-Wiliam
Hahn; Philadelphia Dental College
William A. Spear; University of Maine
Law School-Charles II. Smalley.
Superintendent Richardson of the
Auburn schools has had the following
instructions printed on the back of the
monthly reports of the students work
I'm school, sent to the home for the par
entS signatures:
TO THE PARENT.
\ better physical life for many 4
child would be the result if every
parent We're to consider carefully
these questionsx A negative answer
to any of them implies conditions
which weaken tho child
Foods the food eaten by the
child simple? varied? well cooked ?
easily digested? Is it eaten slowly and
at regular times?
Clothing and care of skin.-Is the
underclothing changed at least once Il
week? Is it changed at night? Is wool
on worn next the skin from early au-
tumn till late spring? Are the Shout
ders rather than the waist used for
the support of clothing? Does he battle
all over at least once a week? Is water
neither too warm nor too cold?
Air.-Does the child always breathe
through the nose? Is there anything
but accidental provision for fresh air
in SleeDing and living rOOmS2 Are the