Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-02-26
Annual Reports Of Nor
NAL and Training Schools,
Biddetord Police Board Sub.
mits Report for Year 1909.
Fish and Game Commissioners Or.
der Hearings on Petitions.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Wednesday, March 80, at 10 A. M.

The anual report of 5. l.. Merriam.
principal OF the AroostoOk State Nor
NAL school at Prcsque Isle. which was
filed with the Governor and Council,
Friday, says in part:
1.-THE increase in attendance this
year over last year has not been so
much as your principal desired but
the interest in and the character of
the work has been very gatifying The
attendance has been more regular ana
not so broken up
"The new method of training has
been far more of a success than we
even hoped for. The benefits derived
from the training by the teacher stu
dents Is much greater than ever be-
fore. while the children in the training
rooms have been kept up to grade and
nave done good work. Four members
or our ninth grade have passed very
satisfactory examinations for the high
school.
Your principal has visited the
following schools in the county in the
interest Of the Normal school: Pressure
Isle High school, Houlton High school.
Kicker Classical Institute. Fort Fair
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school. Caribou High school, Patten
Academy. Sherman Mills High school,
Island Falls High school, and Fort
Kent Training school. The list IN
cludes all the schools in the county
except those of Bridgewater and Eas-
ton.
although the enrolment at our
school Is not so large as we wish there
seems to be good reasons for the small
ness of the number
Z I'm the first place. our attendance is
larger in proportion to the number of
students coming under our influence
than one of the other schools of the
state. In the second place, "a number
OF the high schools of the county have
Just been regarded and their courses
extended ana that has held some of
them back from attending our school
Moreover, the school boards and those
interested In education in those towns
where new high schools have come in
10 prominence. wish to send as MANY
OF their graduates to college as possi-
Dl" IN order to give their school a re-
putatIon as college fitting. and that
has htndered to some extent
Again. the call for teachers has
beer So great that they have been
Obliged to hire those who wanted to
attend normal schools and even per-
suade them to teach. Some supcrin-
tendents have gone so far as to hire
enrolled students through other stu
dents when | told them we had none
whom we could spare
Also the schools of the county out =
Sidp nf a hal 10, Il ~
scholars to do normal work and if thev
attempt the course they get so many
conditions that they soon give up.
You viii see This by noting that l-6
have nt'r.d and only GS have. grad
uated" Finally there is such a c \ for
girls in this county that many are
: giving up teaching and going into that
work. Willie manv. who would become
teachers under other conditions. take
up that work also
However. there is Il ray of hope for
better attendance next year. In the
first place the district superintendents
of the county are looking tn us for their
teachers and we are able to fill the best
places with their graduates. In the
second place wages are advancing and
this will enable the Superintcntlcnts
TO secure the best of teachers The
advance in wages will also induce some
to enter teaching. Also as the young
er high schools progress they will fur
niSh us with some material.
The annual report OF Mary =. Now
land. principal of the Madawaska
Training school. says in part as fol-
lows:
"The teachers for the year have been
Mary p. Rowland. principal: assist
ants. May Brown. katherine l.. Law
liss. Ethel Duffy, Margaret a. Sweeney
Upon the resignation of Miss Gut
mond, Miss Margaret Sweeney. a grad
uatc of the Madawaska Training
scllco.. and of the Arocstook State