"History from the Sources, and One Hundred
Leading Facts of Maine."

Sprague's Journal of Maine History.
Vol. VIII
AUG., SEPT., OCT. 1920
No. 2 
page 107

Dr. A. O. Thomas, Maine's wide-awake and exceedingly efficient
State Superintendent of Schools, has prepared and is now send-
ing to all local superintendents of schools and school teachers an
outline of a course of study in State history, civics, and ancillary 
subjects, entitled "History from the Sources, and One Hundred
Leading Facts of Maine."

Maine's superintendents of the public schools for the past many
years have been very able men, but have never heretofore appeared
to get the right vision of the possibilities and advantages to the 
youth of Maine which lie in the path of a systematic study of State
history.  This course of study contemplated by Dr. Thomas will
lead up to and assimilate the social and industrial activities of the 
Maine of today as well as of the fascinating past.

We believe this sort of school work will be an inspiration to the 
scholars of Maine and inculcate in their breasts a deeper love for 
old Maine, something, as it seems to us, that our public school
system has always lacked.  It will be a privilege and a pleasure
for the Journal to co-operate with the School Department in 
this work whenever it may be possible so to do.


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