Scholar Works The Farmington Normal University Archives 12-1904 The Farmington Normal, vol.4 : no.1 : December 1904 Farmington State Normal School University of Maine at Farmington Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/the_farmington_normal \'.)ol. 4 no.1 DECEMBER, l 904 Entered at P os t-Offi c e al Fam, ;n~to n , Maine, as Seco nd-Cla ss Mail Matter {, FARMINGTONSrfATE NORMAL SCHOO L. TEACHERS. I>vincipal. GEORGE C. PURINGTON, A. M. Psychology, Didactics, Civics, School Laws, School Management, Music. Hssistants. WILBERT G. MALLETT, A. B. Chemistry, Physics, Zoology, Geology, Astronomy, Moral Philosophy, Ethics. HORTENSE M. MERRILL. Reading, English Literature, General History, History United States. KATE H. PATTANGALL, A. B. Physiology, Botany, English Composition, English Grammar, Algebra. KATHARINE E. ABBOTT. Algebra, Geometry, Drawing, Book- keeping. HELEN M. MARCH. Arithmetic, Calisthenics, Elementary Vocal Music, Geography. LOUISE W. RICHARDS, Penmanship, Arithmetic. 'i I>vincipal of the 'Cvaining School. LILLIAN I. LINCOLN. Psychology and Methods. t Hssistants in the 'Cvaining Schools. LOUISE W. RICHARDS,-GRAMMAR GRADE. CELIA B. LELAND,-INTERMEDIATE GRADE. ETHEL M. EDWARDS,-SECOND PRIMARY. MYRTIE R . GARVIN,-FIRST PRIMARY. The FarmingtonNorma l. VoL . IV . FARMINGTON, MAINE, DECEMBER, 1904 . No. 1 . add to scholarship and teaching power, exec­ utive ability of a high order, all of which Mr. FOUR NUMBERS A YEAR . Johnson has in a marked degree. Life is (DecembeY, FebYUary,Apn'/ and Ju ne.) much more complex to-day than it was even twenty:five years ago,-a complexity that is Published by the Teachers and Pupils of the Farmington intensified in school manag ement. The work State Normal School. of co-ordinating the varied and conflicting TERMS : interests of a large preparatory school is one ()N E YEAR . $ 1. 0 0; SINGLE COPIES, 2 5 CTS , of the most difficult problems of the day, and in that direction we feel th at Mr. Johnson Addr ess all com mun ications to has achieved the highest success. Pt<IN . GEORGE C . PURINGTON. ,JI CONTENTS. HELEN B. C. BEEDY . Edit orial, WE present in this number of the Normal Coburn Class ical In stitute . Helen 13. C . n eedy . Jame s Goo dwin. an appreciative sketch of the life and work Coburn Classical Institute , of Mrs. Helen Beatri ce Coffin-Beedy, who The Laureate of Anglo-American Unity, for three periods in th e history of this school Mrs . Helen Coffin Beedy, 5 Memory Gems, . 8 was a member of its faculty. Books, . 8 She came here in the spring of 1866, and Examin ati on Values, 9 remained until the spring term of 1869, when Alum ni N otes, 10 she was transferred to Castine to equalize Normal Notes, 18 School News, 2 1 the teaching force of the two Normal schools, Pleasa ntries , 24 where she remain ed until the close of the Printed by T he Knowlton & Mc L eary Co,, F armin g ton, school year, 1874-5, when she was married to Mr. Daniel Beedy, a prominent and highly EDITORIAL. respected citizen of Farmington. COBURN CLASSICAL INSTITUTE. In January, 1881, she again became a THE sketch of this worthy and prosp erous mern ber of the Faculty of this school to fill a school is from the pen of the present princi­ vacancy caused by resignation. She did pal, Frank W. Johnson, A. M., which accounts more or less teaching in the school until the HELEN COFFIN BEEDY. for some omissions that it is our privile ge to spring of 1883, when she became a regular supply. We are confident that it was never . teacher, remaining until the close of the year mor e prosperous than at the pre sent time , l 884-5, never did better work, and that the pr esent Mrs. Beedy was a woman of strong per­ prin cipal will bear the closest comp arison sonality and tremendous energy. She inspired with his most illustrious predecessor whom her pupils with the desire to do and be their he eulogizes. The work of the modern pre­ best: paratory school is so much broader, and in­ After resigning from the school she devoted volves so many and varied interests-so cial, much of her time, espe cially after Mr. Beedy's -- athleti c and literary--that the principal must death, to philanthropi c and literary work, 2 THE FARMINGTON NORMAL. particularly in connection with the Women's demand for teachers should have the effect of Christian Temperance Union. reducing the attendancr upon the Normal The Memorial to Dorothea Dix, which was £chool. Such, however, is without doubt the the special work of her last years, is not case. Now is a good time to agitate the in­ completed, but she has lmilded a better crease of salaries. There are so many oppor­ memorial to herself and all true womanhood, tunities for young women in otV:-er directions that many will not accept schools for the in the lives of the splendid men and women meager compensation now paid. who were under her instruction. .)A .)A COBURN CLASSICAL INSTITUTE. JAMES GOODWIN. THE history of the school which now bears WHEN Mr. Goodwin died the Farmington the name of Coburn Classical Institute dates Normal School lost a most loyal and efficient back to 1820, the year in which Maine became friend. He had been here so long, had done a state. At that time President Chaplin of his work so unobtrusively ancl faithfully, had Waterville College, feeling the need of a feeder always been so kind and courteous, that he for the College, opened the College Grammar had grown to be a very important part of the School in the '' Woods House" on the site of school. We do not believe he ever had an the present Elmwood Hotel. The teacher of unpleasant word from a pupil, and he surely this school was Henry Paine. The college never gave one. He was FAITHFUL,PATIENT, catalogue of 1824 says: .. There is in connec­ LOYALand HONEST. That is high praise to tion with the college, a Latin School in which 8 bestow on any man, and Mr. Goodwin had are a respectable number of students preparing to those virtues in a marked degree. We felt for college." · z~ sure that everything he had to do would be In 1824 Elijah Parish Lovejoy was elected done thoroughly and in season. He never teacher and conducted the school with ability appeared troubled when careless pupils made and enthusiasm for two years. It will be re­ extra work. No one could be more anxious called that later " he became the peerless for the success of the school and that it champion of the slaves, and of the freedom of the press, and after a mob had destroyed suc­ should sustain a good reputation, and his cessively three printing-presses, while guarding name became a synonym for honesty. If, a fourth he was shot down in a pro-slavery riot as Ben Jonson would have it, "He that at Alton, Ill., Nov. 7, 1837." once is good, is ever great," then our friend It was not un ti! 1 829 that the school was achieved greatness. "To be great is to be opened on the spot which it now occupies. good," and that he surely was. For this reason the date of the opening of the He had the care of'\he Normal for more school has usL1ally been assigned to the year than twenty years, an.cl of the Methodist 1829. The Honorable Timothy Boutelle, a church forty-three years. He took a just graduate of Harvard, had given the lot of land pride in all his work, and those to whom he and the building was erected from funds secured ministered took comfort in his ministrations. by President Chaplin of the college. The build­ He was a good husband, a goorl father, a ing cost $1,750, and with later enlargements good citizen, a good man. served the school until 1883. .)A The first principal was Henry W. Paine, not THE Normal Schools of Maine are the small­ the Paine already mentioned as teacher of the est this fall and winter they have been for sev­ College Grammar School. He was at that time eral years. It would be a cause for much an eighteen-years-old senior in Waterville Col­ anxiety if it were not for the fact that the small lege, later one of the most eminent lawyers of attendance is apparently due to a great demand Massachusetts. The number of students in at­ for teachers. A great many who, would have tendance during the first year was sixty-one. attended have been fairly compelled to take The "Waterville Watchman" of Nov. 24, schools. It seems paradoxical that an increased 1829, said in an editorial: THE FARMINGTON NORMAL. 3 "Waterville Academy .-It will be seen by ward Governor of Maine; William E. \Vording, an advertisement in a subsequent column that to whom as Judge Wording of Dakota, the fine this institution will be opened for instruction on school building of Ricker Classical Institute at the first Monday in December. It is a fine Houlton is due; and Israel Washburn, Jr., after­ brick building of two stories in height, with a ward Governor of Maine. handsome cupola or steeple for a bell, forty-two Mr. Paine was followed in the principalship feet ( exclusive of the porch) by thirty-four, and by George I. Chase, a graduate of Brown, and is a beautifu.l ornament of our village, not sur­ since then a professor and acting president· of passed, we believe, by any other academy build­ the same university.