Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
STATE HOUSE.
Preliminary Program Of
Maine I Teachers Assn.
Supt. Marshall TO Speak Be-
fore Hancock Teachers.
Two More Farmers Unions File Arti.
cIes Of Incorporation.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Regular Meeting of Governor and
Council, Friday, Oct. IS, at 10 A. NJ.

The announcement and preliminary
program of the 18th annual meeting
of the Maine Teachers Association
which is to be held at Portland, Oct
%, "a and %, shows that an interest
ing and attractive series of meetings
has been arranged, with many prom
inent speakers from outside the State.
Portland's splendid new City hall
one of the finest municipal buildings
in New England, has been placed at
the disposal of the association. This
offers an auditorium of unusual seat
ing capacity so that the audiences at
the general sessions can be well taken
care of. At these meetings opportu-
nifty will be given to hear the Kotz-
SEMINAR memorial organ, recently pre-
sented to the city by Cyrus II. K.
Curtis. This organ is said to be equal
in quality to any in the country and
to. be surpassed by very few in the
world
A new departure in the arrangement
of the program is offered for this
meeting. Three large group meet
ings embracing elementary school,
secondary school and college interests
are arranged for Friday morning. Fri
day afternoon is given up to the de-
partment meetings usually assigned
for the entire day.
The program will open, Wednesday
evening, Oct %, with a banquet at
the Falmouth hotel at o'clock of the
Maine Sehoolmasters' Club, with Miss
Mary S. Snow of Chicago. former su-
perintendent of schools of Bangor, and
Rev. NJ. Joseph Twomey of Portland,
the principal speakers.
Miss Snow, President Robert J.
Alley of the University of Maine and
Supt. Farnsworth G.. Marshall of the
Augusta public schools will be the
principal speakers at the session of
the departments of superintendent
and secondary school administration.
which is to be held at $50 A. NJ,
Thursday, Oct. "a. at the assembly
room, Portland High school building.
Addresses will be given at the gen
eral session, Thursday afternoon, by
Miss Snow and by State Supt. of
Schools Payson Smith, while at the
general session, Thursday evening,
addresses will be given by Walter [.
Hamilton. principal of the Donaghy
School. New Bedford upon "Teach-
ers' Pensions and by Henry Turner
Bailey, North Scituate. Mass, upon
THE Whole Boy and the Whole
School,"
The speakers at the elementary
school group session. which is to be
held, Friday morning, Oct. 25 at the
auditorium, Portland City hall, will
be Frank Palmer Speare, dean of the
School of Commerce and Finance,
Boston, and Henry Turner Bailey. The
secondary school group meeting will
be held, Friday morning. at the YES
try of the Chestnut Street church,
with Charles H. Judd, PHI. D., dean
of school education, University of
Chicago and Hon. David Snedden,
commissioner of education, for Massa-
chusetts, as the principal speakers.
The college, group meeting will be
held at the First Parish church, where
Arthur T. Hadley, LII. D., president
of Yale University, is scheduled to
deliver an address upon Some Cur
rent Educational Fallacies."
Sixteen different department ses-
sionssa are arranged for the afternoon,
also meeting of the Maine Branch
of the American School Peace League,
the latter to be presided over by Prot
Alfred Williams Anthony of Lewis
ton.
Alumni meetings of different insti-
buttons are also arranged for later in
the afternoon. At 40 p NJ, the alum
nj of the Gorham, Pennington and
Castine State Normal Schools will
meet in various rooms at the Port
land High school building, also at the
same hour meeting will be held OF
the alumni of the Maine Wesleyan
Seminary, Kent's Hill.
The general session, Friday evening
at City hall, Portland, will be adj
dressed by Booker 7. Washington OF
Tuskeegee, Ala.