The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-12-18
TO DISCUSS SCHOOL SYSTEM

School affairs will be overhauled in
heart-to-heart talks December %, at
a meeting of the Frederick county
teachers in the Girls High School.
All branches of the curriculum will
be discussed, in short addresses, by
members of the school faculty of the
county. The opening address will be
delivered by Joseph d. Baker. DR..
Ralph H. Browning, county health Of
ficer, will read paper to the teach
ers.
This meeting will be held but one
day. The superintendent of the
schools called the meeting with a view
of having the teachers give suggest
ions for the perfecting of the county
system. The session will open at
$50 o'clock.
TO Get At Defects.
A special program has been prepar-
ed for each of the three departments !:
the high school, the intermediate, and
the primary grades. superintendent
G. Lloyd Palmer will be in charge of
the high school grade work; F. d.
Harshman, grade supervisor, will pre-
side at the meeting of the informed
late teachers, and Miss Ella V. Krieg,
will be in charge Of the primary work.
An effort will be made to get at the
defects in the various courses. Spec
ial attention will be paid to mathemat-
les, to English and to composition
work.
After each paper there will be a
general discussion which is open to
the teachers. All teachers are requir-
ed to attend this meeting.
The program follows:
Joseph D. Baker, opening remarks.
DR.. Ralph Browning, paper.
Primary Department-Mis Ella
V. Krieg, primary supervisor, chair
man. 'The Practical Value of Phonet-
ics," by Miss Mary Burger Discuss
ion, Misses Huldah Brust, Linnie Ed
ma Lighter and Louise Miller. "The
Teachings of Concrete Arithmetic" by
Miss Emma G. Devilbiss, paper. Dis
cussion, Misses Nellie Thomas, Rose
T. Yingling and Sadie G. Hahn and
William Bowlus.
Language in Primary Grades" by
Miss Hal Lee T. OFT. Discussion, Miss
Louise James, Pauline Gilbert, Made
line Frailey and Ida Reinhard. Re-
marks, Miss Edith Thomas, domestic
science supervisor.
Intermediate Departmental. D.
Harshman, grade supervisor chairman
written Composition and How To
Obtain the Best Results by Miss
Nellie Carter CARROT. Discussion
Misses M. Beth Firor, NJ Chaille Wal
Ter, Eda Schaeffer and Hattie Sum-
mers.
Correlation of History with Geo.
graphy," by Miss Margaret Duvall
Discussion, Misses Cloe Cecil, Mar
Gle Marriatte and Myrtle B. Myers
and Chester Glen.
discipline, How 1t Can Be Secur-
ed and Maintained" by Miss Sadie E
Spurrier. Discussion-Misses Louise
G. Blum, Nora 10y and Marie Eyler
and George Miller. Remarks, Miss
Edith Thomas, domestic science sup
ervisor
High School Group. G. Lloyd Pal
mer, superintendent, chairman. "The
Place of Mathematics in the High
School Curriculum" by R. E. Kieeny
Discussion, o. NJ. Fogle, H. D. Beach
| ley, G. H. Remsberg, Anon Burgee
and Wallace Beall.
ga, B, G, of the Commercial Course
by S. Fenton Harris. Discussion,
Misses Frances Doub, Blanche Stone,
Messrs. Ralph Wyand and Louis Rice.
"Obstacles of Teaching English in
the High Schools and How to Remedy
Them" by Miss Ruth A. Firor Dis
cussion, Misses Josephine Solomon,
Pearl A. Eader and Edith Gardiner
and Marceline Kefauver and W. T.
Mahoney.
"The Seventh Grade an Important
Factor in the Success of The High
School Grades" by James G. Biehl.
Discussion, Adam Roser and D. 0.
Metz, and Misses Mary J. Snuff Alvey
J. HORNE, and Bertha Grabili. Re
marks, Sidney S. Stabler, agricultur-
al supervisor.