Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-14
MAINE ACADEMY OF
SCIENCE HOLDS ITS
CLOSING SESSION
Saturday Morning Program In
cludes Several Papers on In
teresting Subjects w h C h
Furnish Fitting Close to the
Meeting

The last session of the second annu-
al meeting of the Maine Academy. of
Science was held Saturday morning
in the Senate chamber and although
the attendance was not large, all pres
ent entered with enthusiasm into the
spirit of the meeting and the session
was very beneficial.
George E. Howe of Norway, presi-
dent of the academy, presided. Mrs.
Evelyn Maude Mason, teacher of the
Hewins school of Augusta, opened the
program by reading paper entitled
Domestic Science" Mrs. Mason said
in part:
In my school / often find girls who
will never go beyond the rural school
and boys who have no liking for
books. To this class domestic science
and manual training must take the
place, in some measure of the hated
school work, and through these things
that nearly every boy and girl like we
manage to teach the things that must
be taught. We cannot all be students,
then why not learn the essentials that
every man and woman must learn.
Every man as we'll as every woman
should know the value of food; that
the most important things to study in
plants and animals, are not only
where they live, why they live, but
of what value abe they to man as
food, in his different vocations and in
the different climates.
Mrs Mason then outlined a system
of domestic science which certain
teacher in a rural school established.
Miss Lane of Bath then read pa
per. written by Miss Cordelia j. STAN
wood of Ellsworth, entitled The
Chronicle of an Olive-baked Thrush.
And after this, President Howe read
another paper, written by Miss Stan
wood, entitled THE Annals of Three
Tame Hermit Thrushes." Both papers
were written in a manner which par
tieularly appealed to lovers of BIRDS.
The last paper of the morning was
written and read by Ray w. Topey,
an instructor in the Good Will schools,
Hinckley, the subject being How the
Schools 70 Maine Can Help in the De-
yelopment of the Natural Resources
of the State
Mr.. Tobev stated that the schools
should use the miscroscope more ana
the telescope less and emphasized that
fact that a live boy is more interest
ed in problems concerning places near
at hand For instance. boy would
he more interested in figuring out now
much water flows down the river py
the school in one hour and the horse
mower that it would mean to the mills
below. than to figure the amount OF
water flowing in some far-oH river
per hour. The resources of Maine are
great and the Boom Maine Move
n,ant', should find Il place in the work
of the schools.
Mr.. Tobey advocated the plan Oh
schools establishing neighborhood mu-
seums. where specimens OF minerals
etc. found in the vicinity could De eN-
hibited. For this he stated, inter
est and intelligent observation are
most needed
The executive council of the acad-
envy then held meeting for the trans
action of business matters, altef
wbicb the academy members held
short business meeting. At this meet
ing many candidates were voted INTO
the organization and Assistant state
rihrarian William F. Livingston was
made a resident member
The session was adjourned about
As A. NJ.
The members of the committee OF
arrangements, to whom mucn OIL the
credit for the success of the meeting
is due. are: A. NJ. G. Soule tchalr-
mani. Augusta; Prof. NJ. II. ohrysier'
Orono. Prof. Manton Copeland
Rrunswick. Prof. Frank D. Tuops'
rates College: Prof. H. P. Little, wa
teryille; Thomas A. James, Augusta