Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-03
OUR HIGH SCHOOL.
Announce by the Prude
Comm ittee School Opens
TUESDAY,.


The prudential committee of the Mid
dlebury High School have issued an an.
nouncement which reads as follows:
The management of Middlebury High
School announces that the corps of
teachers for the school year 1909-10 will
be as follows: Mr.. Hartman, the princi
pal for four years past, will continue in
charge. His qualifications and success
full experience here and elsewhere need
no encomium; the fact that he will be at
the head of the school ensures a profit
able and prosperous year. Miss Frances
Warner the science teacher, will be
jects within her province as last year.
At present she is pursuing a course in
her specialties at the Cornell Summer
School and she will be even better
equipped than before for her work.
Miss Josephine Emerson, mathematics,
will also return and have charge of her
last years subjects. She proved herself
a very competent teacher. The other
two teachers are new to us. Miss Bertha
o. Stilson, who graduated this year at
the head of her class in the Woman's
College, Middlebury, will teach Greek
German and History. Miss Mary Bill
ings Eddy, of Albany, n. y, graduate
of Smith College or, and of Albany
Normal College '09, will teach English
and History. She is talented woman
Of good scholarship and force and comes
to us with excellent recommendations
We feel certain that she will do good
work.
The school will enter upon the new
year with enlarged facilities and an I'M
rivalled corps of teachers and the com.
mittee are confident that the high stand
ard hitherto maintained will be kept up.
Tuition for the next year will be eight
dollars term, payable to Mr.. LaFleur
at, or before the middle of each term.
The fall term begins on Tuesday. Sep
tember the seventh.
Prof. A. s. Hartman. the principal,
issues circular in regard to a new
school curriculum, in which he says:
The ninth grade IN the Middlebury
Graded School, as an integral part of the
schootcourse, has been abolished. In
stead a one year course in bookke eping,
commercial arithmetic, business methods,
! business forms and letter writing and
commercial geography has been intro
duced. The design OF this course is to
fit student to keep his farher's books
or snch books as are usually kept in a
village store, to compute with accuracy
and dispatch, to write correctly notes,
checks, drafts receipts and such other
forms as would be called for in a small
business; to write business letter cor
rect in form and spelling; and TO study
the world as great market place.
Any student who has completed the
eighth grade in the Middlebury schools
and any student from outside the dis
trict who can satisfy the teacher of his
fitness will be admitted to the CONNER
cial Grade. The work IN this depart.
ment, however, will not be counted to.
ward preparation for the High School.
Those students who have completed
the eighth grade and who are required
by law to attend school in District No.
will be expected to choose between the
Commercial Grade and the High School.
Miss Julia +. Bond, who has been for
so many years the efficient head of the
Grammar School, will be the head of
the new department.