Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-07
Regular Meeting
High School Faculty
Proves Interesting

Inc n1gn ScnoOl faculty meeting was
held in room 6 in the high school Tues
day afternoon at 4 o'clock. The meet
ing was in charge Of Mrs. Smith and
Miss Harmon. Miss Harmon gave a
very interesting paper on "Ice and Re-
frigcration." She said In part that
the making Of artificial heat was made
so far back in the life OF the human
race that We must pass beyond history
before VIC can find any account Of it's
origin. but the making of artificial
cold is so recent that we have only
begun to utilize it.
Lord Bacon. an English scientist.
said that heat and cold were natures
two hands. He pointed out what q use-
full thing it would be if man had the
same command of cold as he had of
heat. He tried some experiments
along this line but. unfortunately. he
caught bis death of cold by stufling
snow into a dressed chicken to see If
it would keep. However. it was not
long after that man discovered that
cold would keep things, so he set to
work to find some means to provide
this cold. In tho temperate zones this
was easy enough. as the rivers froZe
in winter and he had only to cut tho
ice and put it away for future use.
foods grew in this country until it no
longer was a luxury, but necessity.
The result was the making of arti
fetal ice. From the name one might
draw the conclusion that the ice is ar
tifican. 1t is not the ice but the means
of freezing it that is artificial. To I'M
derStaud this process one has to go
back hundred years and trace its de-
Nelopment. in 1892 Faraday. an Eng
lishman. succeeded in changing am
| monia gas TO n liquid by pressure and
cold. When the pressure was removed
the 1iquified gas immediately began to
change back to its original state. a
gas. This change required a great deal
| of heat and the gas took the necessary
| heat from tho surrounding objects and
| atmosphere. This discovery proved Of
greatest Importance and liquid ammo
mia is today the main means of making
artificial ice.
| Only pure water can be used in the
apparatus for making ice. so it is pure
| for use in connection with all foods.
| which is more than can be said Of river
| ice. Every great food concern. hot |,
| packing house. may have its own ice
making machine.
Mrs. Smiths paper was on English
is Cooperative subject" She said I'm
part that English is not only a SUBJ
| ject OF instruction in the high school
| it is the means by which all the Sub
jects are taught. The use of good
English is a habit, and habits are es-
tabished only by constant attention
and practice. The pupil often enters
the schoolroom with bad habits of OK
preston firmly fixed. which. can be
overcome only by tho united efforts of
| III fa, St, Ii. al,
The fact that be teacher of English
has the pupil in her classroom only 40
minutes day. and the whole school
only six hours. as opposed to the re-
| naming eight or 10 hours WHOM they
are under the influence of Indifferent
standards prevailing in tho homes or in
the community. makes this task of
overcoming these bad habits Of Ian
guagc an exceedingly difficult one
The responsibility for bringing the
student to this rcaliza ton of rests not
alone on the teacher of English but on
the whole school. The English teach
or must instruct the pupil in the tech
meal side of the subject. must sec that
he learns certain fundamentals. and
sets up a definite standard for himself.
but if he makes no use of these things
outside of English class. her work is
/
he has learned every time he speaks or
writes. Unless the work Of the Eng
lish class is correlated to that of other
departments. the school cannot do its
full duty to the pupil.
Mrs. Smith made three suggestions
that might be carried out in our school
without undue extra effort on the part
OF the teachers and with perfect fair
Iness to the pupils.
l. In all oral or written work TO
allow none of tho Ten Awful Errors
of English" TO pass.
.. In all written work TO insist on
the proper use of the period and the
question mark. and never TO allow a
comma to stand alone between two in
dependent clauses.
3. After proper interval for warn
ing. to reject all papers that do not
comply with the earlier ruling made in
regard TO lecding or with the sugges-
tions given above.