Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-08
OAK GROVE

The French Chapel on Wednesday
morning was highly interesting as
conducted by Miss Meader, head of
the French Department. The exer-
cses opened with lie cantique 'Gloire,
gloire a rEterner by the whole
school. Miss Meader then read
Psaume Premier. cantique de David,
and the school united in fOraison
Dominicale. A clever fable from
La Fontaine,-Le chat, la bette ct
lie petit lapin was warmly received
however. were made in simple
French and even the Sth grade pupils
were able to understand a part of
them much to their qualification.
/ The Chapel exercises closed with lie
cantique, .Je chanterai, seigneur
ties oeuvres magnifiques.' Chapel
exercises will be conducted entirely
in French each Wednesday morning
and visitors are welcome. The exer-
cises open at $50 A. M. and last
fifteen minutes. Plans were made
last year fol this part of the French
Department ai4d> Miss Meader made
special collection of material in
Paris the past summer in order to
have each Wednesday different. and
as typically French as possible.
The Oak Grove girls will play their
! first hockey match next Saturday
| morning at IL o'clock when they
meet the veteran team at Wilton.
| While the majority of the girls
have never played hockey and many
| nave not even seen a game, yet
! they are developing rapidly and their
enthusiasm ought to make Up for
! some of their ineXperience.
| The girls in the Junior Depart
ment who do not play hockey have
developed a great hobby for Black
Beauty, and the pony cart may be
seen dashing along the roads about
| Oak Grove every afternoon.
Hon. Herbert E. Wadsworth of
4 Winthrop was a guest at Oak Grove
Tuesday~afternoon
Miss fNorcross took Miss Meader
and a party of girls to Waterville in
her car on Tuesday afternoon, to
call upon Elizabeth Martin at the
Sisters Hospital. Elizabeth con-
tinues to gain rapidly and everyone
hopes she will be able to return to
Oak Grove the first of next week
where she will complete her con-
valescence in the charming school
infirmary. Miss Dayton, the resi-
dent graduate nurse, who held a
| s,AliiAi1l PcolliOll a. NCiOoASy WI
lege for the past two years, has
charge of the infirmary at Oak
Grove and will soon hold regular
| clinics to teach the girls hygiene
Miss Dayton has already completed
the physical examination of each
girl and the individual charts will
soon be made. A great deal of en-
| phasis is being placed upon sound
health and perfect physical develop
ment at Oak Grove and some
! original work is being done in this
department which is attracting at
| tention.
Mrs. Hazel Crosby Brown of Fair
field, Miss Julia Brown of Riverside
and Miss Fits of Waterville visited
classes at Oak Grove on Tuesday
! Guests are always welcome at any
.recitation.
The English classes. under the
energetic direction of Miss Norcrass
are organizing an intensive program
of collateral work. One of the most
popular tasks is the collecting of a
! group of poems which will be made
up into an attractive volume by
each young editor. The classes have
| their volumes but each girl will have
| full scope in selecting the poems
which she likes best along that
theme. The seniors, wishing to at
tempt something scholarly and
| philosophical have decided that
their theme shall be Self Revelation
The Juniors viii have poems about
flowers. The sophomores will select
what, they consider the masterpieces
! that sing of mountains and streams.
| The Freshmen have chosen poems of