Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-07-14
EDUCATORS AT CAsTINE.
,ef1GHTFUL WEATHER FOR
,ysrrTUrE OF INSTRUCTION.
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10Y LIFE IN HISTORIC OLD TOWN
pAYsoN SMITH ELECTED
PRESIDENT.

f,siiphtful weather IaNoreu the many VS.
80 "a historic old Castine Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday of last week upon
- occasion OF the annual meeting OF the
.,,ar;can Institute OF instruction, the
.ahool superintendents OF New England
"a Of Maine, who gathered some two or
three hundred strong
The opening days program was most
.,,ccassful one, ending with fine public
meeting at Emerson hall in the evening,
.rhan addresses we're made by Supt. Ber-
ard NJ. sheridan, OF Lawrence, Mass, on
.,climpses OF American Schools and
schoolmen'', and Prof. Robert j. Sprague,
ofthe University OF Maine, on "Construc-
live Education, or Moral Degeneracyr.
Nth sneakers were closely followed by
,he large audience and much favora bio
comment was made on the subject matter
and thoughts presented.
A delightful sail was enjoyed on the
s,esmer Rockland Tuesday and another
was taken after the morning session We'd
nesday for trip up the Penobscot river.
On Friday a trip to Bar Harbor on the
same steamer was enjoyed.
]. Asbury Pittman, OF Salem, presided at
the department Of superintendent meet
ing. Joseph W. Doves, director OF PEN
manship in Chicago normal school, spoke
on .Child Nature; to Develop Its Powers
without Impairing its Vital Resources;
]. C. Moody, instructor in penman-
ship in the New Britain normal school,
spoke on the preparation Of Teach
ersp, and Harry Houston, of New Haven,
gave an illustrated address on Rational
and Practical Penmanship". Other speak
ers at this meeting were Supt. Walter II.
Small, of Providence, and Wallace E.
Mason, OF North Andover, Mass.
Before the department OF normal schools
Arthur c. Boyden, OF Bridgewater, Mass,
reported on the Organization, Courses
and Methods OF Some Normal Schools Of
the Middle West"
Principal John g. Thompson, Of Fitch
burg, reported on study Of schools Of
observation and practice ct the same
meeting.
agricultural college, in an address before
the department OF rural schools, asserted
that industrial education includes no
more important branch than that OF agri-
culture nor any branch more nearly uni
yersal in its adaptation.
Other speakers Wednesday were Miss
Elizabeth Hobbs, OF Schenectady, n. Y;
Supt. William Carkinson, Waltham,
Mass; Mrs. Jean n. Barrett, Springfield,
Mass; Miss Lucy Wheeck, Boston; Mer-
ritt D. Chittenden, Burlington, VT; Prin-
cipal Willis 0. smith, Lancaster, N. H.;
Louis II. Meader, Providence; Principal
Joseph e. Mowry, Providence; julius K.
Warren, agent OF Massachusetts, state
board of education; Hannah P. Water
man, North Adams, Mass; Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Burdett, Newton, Mass, and Supt. Frank
II. Beede, New Haven, Conn.
DEPARTMENTAL MEETINGS.
Departmental meetings under superin-
tendence, normal schools, secondary
schools, elementary schools, rural schools
and kindergarten were held Wednesday.
The department OF superintendent was
in charge OF New England Association Of
School Superintendent, and the Kinder
garten department was conducted by the
Eastern kindergarten association.
The programs for these departmental
meetings were carefully prepared, and
were carried out practically as arranged.
Wednesday night general session was
taken up with the consideration OF the
topic: RESULTS in Industrial Education"
1.-THE Domestic Arts and Sciences" was
considered by Principal h. $. Weaver,
Practical Arts high school, Boston.
Agriculture was discussed by Prof.
+. B. jerks, Massachusetts, agricultural
college.
industrial Education in an Ordinary
High School," illustrated by stereopticon,
was the subject on which Supt. George H.
Whitcher, OF Berlin, n. H., spoke.
Cooperation Between School and
Shop" by Principal Charles J. Wood
bury, Fitchburg, Mass.
The address by Prof. jerks was particu-
larry interesting. He said in part:
PROF. jerks or AGRICULTURE.
Industrial education, which is receiving the
cindes no more important branch than that
OF agriculture, nor any branch more nearly
universal in its adaptation. We are doing
practical work of an agricultural nature in
all kinds and conditions of schools, both in
city and rural districts, both in large and in
small schools, and are finding that the results
Justify the efforts. There is as yet no uni
iormity either In the subject matter or in the
methods Of teaching, and perhaps it is better
that there never should be. The conditions
are SO different in each school from those in
every other school that each one must neces-
sariiy be treated as an individual problem.
All over the state Of Massachusetts the work
IS oeing started, and this coming school sea-
son wiil open with no less than six agricul-
'ate nigh schools; four regular high schools
onering agricultural courses three special or
private schools doing high school agricui-
sutai' and great many other high schools
uo,hg some definite work in agriculture,
.niehy oy correlation Of the subjects already
.susht' while by far the greater number of