Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-23
AT CONY HIGH,
Summary of Chances in instructors
and Work--list Of Entering Glass.

| The total registration at Cony High
school on Friday was 1856 The enter
/ ing class numbers 10. The school is
now well organized for the years work
! which bids fair to be exceedingly
, pleasant and profitable The changes
in the Board of instructors have made
/ 1t possible to carry out in full the di-
| VldlnS Of the curriculum into dcpart-
J nentS with an Instructor in charge. of
| the work of each department. Princi-
; pal Siarshall has mathematics ard his
/ tory; sub-Principal Rigs, science;
( Miss Reynolds. advanced English;
Miss Davis. mathematics: Miss Knisht.
French; Miss Thompson. Greek ana
advanced Latin; Miss Vickery. elc-
mentary Latin; Miss Ward, element
| tary English.
The vacancies in the board Of in
struItors caused BY the resignation OF
Miss Leah Friend for a years study in
| Germany. and Of Hiss Alice Johnson
| Tor pos grhdu"te work at Cornell, have
been filled by the election of Miss
Maud Nickery of Machias, and Miss
Julia VI. Nafe of Elmira. ~ Y, 10th
! teachers Of long and successful cx-
pcrirnce. Miss Nafe will begin her
work about Oct. LIST. but until her ar
rival Miss Ward of this city will have
| charge of her department.
| The curriculum Of The school has
| been somewhat modified on account IT
| the enlargement ot the English ana
! Mathematical courses by the addition
/ of another yt"r'.' work in each IF these
subjects. The additional time in Eng
| lish will be used III the study Of Eng
liSh Grammnr, spelling, composition
and rhetoric, while III mathematics
algebra and selected subjects in
| arithmetic Will he considered. Physics
and geometry have been changed from
tn" third to the second year to per
NIT If more advanced work in these
subjects Glasses in current evonts ana
debating under the charge of Principal
Marshall will shortly De formed.
| Tie courses of the school now i'll
Glide four years WORT! in each of the
subjo cts. Latin, Science, Mathematics
and English. three years work il
Greek ana French, and two ana half
! years work in history.
Satisfactory work in the courses of
| the school Will enable the students To
enter on the certificate Of the principal
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school that is Il member Of the New
England College Entrance Certificate
! Enard. At meeting Of that Beard
! in April the certificate privilege Of
Cony was extended for three years
! Fifteen of the graduates of the school
Will enter college this fail. four going
to Maine fnur to Eowdoin, three L.
Bates, two to Yale. one to NasSdr ANA
one Ia Cornell
Tho schcul~ now has the best
preparatory school athletic field in the
state. Two tennis courts, one for the
boys and one for the girls viii hc con-
structed ut once at the south of Ill"
school building.
| The following is the enrolment of
the entering class:
i'!crcncc i. Abbott: F'l"r nee 6 Adams
Florence \: I:"nno. Fr"icrick L. Bonn,
Jr.. Guy *. Black. Edwin +. brown,
Perry J Caldwell. John T.. Caro-. Mar
ion l.. ChadTirN. Stanley +. CHrrn"WSky,
Loretta NJ CEcrmowsky, Hazel L. Ch"ato,
Myrtle g. Choatc Thomas cuughlin.
Eouse Davies. Charles f.. Davis MGR
ton =. D"i;tno Edward a. Dickson. Ruby
| NJ Dennis. Everett Dow Bernard G.
lowe. -\rda NJ. Fairfield. Constance y.
Gage chaunrcy \. Han Gertrude g.
Haskell. Ida NJ. Haskell Myr"n y. Has
kcll. Charles 4. Italpin. Herbert NJ. Irath.
Gladys l.. Hill. Earle A. Hill. Midi d
Hunt Leila {. IIutchins. George W
. Hutchinson. IIaZcl S. Knowles. ,i"lm IL.
LATHE, Elsir =. Leighton Leon ". Lewis,
Edna y. Ii.hn"Ss. Ami" Z Mason,
George s Merrill. Leigh Il. MothclWrH,
FrcG r. Morton. Books Nowh"rt, War
rem Nichols. Mary ). Norton. Gladys y.
I.hr'an, Clarence l.: Plillnick. Margaret
Fhnn"y. Wiliam H. Pike, Wallac.. \.
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