Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-17
IN THE SClIOOL-ROOM.
What is Being Done in Maine for ths
Advancement of Education.

A School Improvement League has
been organized, in Troy, with quite Il
large membership, and flags have been
purchased for three or more districts
Arrangements have been made for
the adoption of the plan or musical in
struction in the Biddeford high school
which was proposed to the school board
by William r. Chapman, director of the
Maine musical festivals. Mr.. Chapman
has sent a female instructor to intro
duce the system of which he is an ex-
ponent and the first work at the high
school waS done this week when the
new teacher examined the seniors and
tested their voices The new work will
in no way interfere with that now be-
ing carried on by Miss Betsy Clark,
the regular music teacher in the schools,
but will be supplementary. The object
of Mr.. Chapman is to secure proper
training FOR !. large chorus of a thou
sand voices which he will present at
some future festival.
Members Of the alumni Of North Var
mouth academy, representing the town
of North Yarmouth, have recently fur
nisheG Il room at Russell hall as Il &c
mortal gift 10 their alma mater. The
necessary funds We're collected at the
/, suggestion Of Miss Hayes of North
Yarmouth. Several other rooms have
been nicely furnished this year by
former students and others inter-
ested in the welfare of the acad-
envy. Funds are now being sub
scribed among the former students
! al
the purpose OF furnishing a room to be
known as the Yarmouth alumni me-
mortal.
The Ideal Teacher.
Much Of the friction in the schools is
brought about by the clashng Of the
dispositions of the teachers and pupils.
On the other hand, some teachers
are to the manner born, writes Mrs.
John Logan in the New York American
They have dTifted into their roper vo-
cations. We have seen men and wo-
men VINO could get the very best out of
every child under their tutorship by
their wonderful tact and knowledge Of
human nature.
They made it a point to study every
child and then apply what they con-
sidered the best method to inspire each
ore with ambition and to instil in them
d love TIC study and how to apply them
selves during study hours.
They entered with genuine relish in
to their sports during recreation hours.
They won the love of every pupil, the
most refractory being sometimes the
most devoted and the soonest to sue
cumb to the Establishments of diplo-
matte teachers.
| once asked a youth who had been
| bad boy, but who was reformed by
1 faithful! teacher, and who SUISSE
quently became a brilliant scholar and
Il splendid man. how it was that he was
so attached to and SO much influenced
by his teacher.
He replied: "She first loved me SO
much that | could not be brute enough
TO be Indifferent to her affection for me
and her goodness to me, so l made up
my mind that if L could be what she in
sisted / could l would be man enough
to try, and / will love her next to my
mother as long as l live. l owe every
thing I am or can ever hope to be to
Miss Blanche, my beloved teacher
1t should be the ambition of every
teacher TO occupy just such place in
the hearts of those for whom she is
responsible in the tender years of their
lives.
Teachers in the primaries have as