Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-15
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
Progress Of School Affairs and Gossip
of the Students.

Work at The High school is progress
ing with Il regularity that is fast bring
ing the students to the point where the
light of knowledge shines brightest. In
fact. from the first of the term there
has been every indication of an exceed
ingly successful year at this institu-
ton. The system, followed by the staff
of able teachers, has reached state
of perfection that excludes the posi-
bility of delay in educational advance
ment, except. perhaps, under extraor-
binary circumstances such as are likely
to arise and stay the hand of the most
powerful.
The teachers arc much Interested i'll
the recent revival at Augusta, of the
Kcnnebec Teachers Club. This organ
ization was formed in 1892, and was
conducted successfully for a period of
about 10 years. The object of the club
has always been purely professional,
and much profit was derived from the
work that was carried on uD to the
time of its decline If teachers Of cities
and towns take as deep interest in the
organization as is shown by the Car
diner teachers. the success of former
years will undoubtedly be equalled and
perhaps exceeded.
The biology class has finished study
ing the science of life and is now DEW
ing into the mysteries of physical geog-
raphy. The interest in biology, however,
is not dead. The class will visit. Friday
evening, the taXideriny establishment
OF Homer r. Dill, who has kindly con-
scented to give n lecture on this sub
ject. Mr.. Dill will illustrate his descrip-
tons by casts of animals which ne
made while in large New York muse
UNI, and will also exhibit the many
mounted specimens of animals ana
birds which he has on hand. Mr.. Dill
is a recognized authority on this sub
iect, consequently the students may eX-
| rect to hear an address which VIII DE
profitable as we'll as interesting.
! Principal Powers and several of the
students are planning to attend the 10Th
annual meeting Of the Maine Ornltho-
| logical Society, to be held. Dec. l ana
=. at the rooms of the Society of Natur-
al History in Portland. Mr.. Powers is
an enthusiastic ornthologiSt and is
| widely known because of his knowledge
of this subject. His "bird class" which
roams the field every spring, have come
to be q feature that may be considered
fixed as long as he is connected with
| the school, The study furnishes much
pleasure as we'll as profit to both Mr..
| Powers and the class. Some OF the
| uleasantcst memories held by those
| whose school days are over. are the rec
| objections which picture again the little
band of girls and boys who skipped
| p,erriIy DER the fields and through the
| valleys, seeking glimpses of feathereo
songsters. before the first CLEAN of the
sun was seen in the morning.
| The course in shorthand and type
writing is proving as gradually sue
| cessful as was presaged when it was
first instituted. The students have now
| become able to make their fingers fly
| with accuracy as well as with speed,
| and their skill is now being put to
| practical use for some of the NEST eff
liciert stenographers now attend to
much of the official school correspond
| ence, The course, as it is taught in this
| school, includes neither the pleasing
art of chewing gum with unison OF
movement by jaws and fingers nor the
eating of caramels with consequent
i sickness on each sheet of paper.
The freshman bookkeeping class IS
deep in the mysteries of office routine
and business practice. Money, notes
drafts. checks, dunning letters and al
the things necessary to frenZied finance
!; have parts in this study and the frenzy