Brochure: Rockland School for Girls, 1887-1888

87-29-31

Rockland

School.

HENRY C. HALLOWELL, A. M.

Sandy Spring, Maryland.

- INSTRUCTORS -

SESSION 1887-88

ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICAL

HENRY C. HALLOWELL, A. M. (Yale)

JENNIE F. JOHNSON, (Va. Female Inst.)

MARY S. HALLOWELL

LANGUAGES

EDITH HALLOWELL

MUSIC

MARGARET E. MILLER, A. B. (Vassar.)

ESSAYS AND DRAWING

REBECCA T. MILLER

ASSISTANT

ANTIONETTE MOORES

LECTURERES

HENRY C. HALLOWELL

EDWARD J. FARQUHAR

ROCKLAND SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, SANDY SPRING, MARYLAND.

This Institution is designed to be a Select School in which Girls can obtain a thorough education under judicious and careful superintendence. The Proprietor and Principal is a graduate of Yale College, and was associated with his father, Benjamin Hallowell, in the Alexandria Boarding School. The Buildings are well arranged for the comfort and health of the Scholars. They are situated in Sandy Spring neighborhood, Montgomery Co., Maryland, about eighteen miles north of Washington City, and twenty-eight miles from Baltimore. It is one of the most healthy locations in the country, and in the midst of a community noted for its intelligence, industry and morality. The next school year will commence September 18th, 1888, and end June 14th, 1889.

ACCESS. The school is easily accessible from Baltimore or Washington. 1. A morning stage runs daily from Laurel Station, on the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, passing by the door. 2. Conveyances can be obtained in Laurel, of Wm. Milstead, by which those desiring to do so can return to the Rail Road the same afternoon.

3. A daily stage from Rockville, on the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, in the afternoon, passes by Mechanicsville, (Olney P.O.) near the school

4. By taking the morning train from Washingto to Rockville and hiring a carriage (which can be obtained at the station), visitors can spend an hour or two at the school, and return to Washington in the afternoon.

5. There is a good carriage road form Washington, by which the Institution can be reached in a pleasant drive of about three hours.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION

All the fundamental branches of a good English education such as Spelling, Elocution, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Botany, History, Mathematics, Astronomy and the Natural Sciences, will receive special attention. The more advanced students are also instructed in Rhetoric, Englsih Literature, Intellectual Philosophy, Geology, Zoology, Fine Arts, &c.; and those who desire it, in Drawing, Music, French, Latin and German.

The school is provided with a good collection of Philosophical and Chemical Apparatus, a Telescope, a Cabinet of Mineralogical and Geological Specimens, Globes, a Mounted Skeleton, Anatomical Plates, and other modern aids to the acquirement of knowledge.

LECTURES

Lectures will be delivered weekly, by the Principal (and others), on Natural Science, History and General Literature, accompanied by such illustrations as are calculated to impress upon the minds of the pupils the principles of which their attention is invited.

CERTIFICATES

Those scholars who finish stisfactorily a prescribed course of study, will receive a Certificate or Diploma.

TERMS, Etc.

For the Scholastic Year of Nine Months, payable one-half on entrance, and the rest February 1st:

BOARD, WASHING, ATTENDANCE UPON LECTURES, AND TUITION IN ALL THE ENGLISH BRANCHES, - $230.00

DRAWING AND LANGUAGES, EACH - 16.00

VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, INCLUDING USE OF PIANO, EACH - 50.00

BOTH TO THE SAME SCHOLAR OR TO SISTERS - 80.00

USE OF BOOKS, SLATES, PENS, INK, PENCILS &C - 6.00

DAY SCHOLARS, TUTION IN ENGLISH BRANCHES - 40.00

When a Scholar is entered, it is understood to be for the entire session of nine months, unless previously otherwise agreed upon.

No deduction will be made for absence from school, except by special agreement.

It is greatly to the advantage of the scholars that they should be present at the beginning of the session, but when they cannot do so, they will be charged from time of entrance only, if it is more than three weeks from the opening.

When it is desired that clothing or money shall be furnished to a scholar, funds for that object expressly must be previously placed in the hands of the Principal.

MISCELLANEOUS

1. At the latter part of each seven or eight weeks, there are written examinations after which circulars will be forwarded to the parents or guardians of the scholars, showing the studies pursued, and the progress made in them, with written statement of deportment and application.

2. On "Visiting Days" (at the close of the examinations), such as have written permission may visit friends or relatives residing near, from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening.

3. There is a Holiday of about two weeks at Christmas, and a few days at Easter.