Circular: Sherwood Friends School, 1898-1899

Sherwood Friends' School, Sandy Spring Maryland

1898='99.

Elizabeth P. M. Thom, Principal

SHERWOOD FRIENDS' SCHOOL.

PRINCIPAL: ELIZABETH P. M. THOM, Ashton, Maryland.

ASSISTANT: ALICE VEDDAR FARQUHAR, Rockville, Maryland.

EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE OF SANDY SPRING MONTHLY MEETING.

JOHN THOMAS, Chairman . . . . Ednor, Md. MARY MAGRUDER . . . . . . Olney, Md. BENJAMIN H. MILLER . . . . . Ashton, Md. SARAH T. MILLER . . . . . . Ashton, Md. MARY E. MOORE . . . . Sandy Spring, Md. WILLIAM W. MOORE . . . Sandy Spring, Md. ALBINA O. STALBLER . . . Spencerville, Md. ASA M. STABLER . . . . Spencerville, Md. ALBAN G. THOMAS . . . . . . Ashton, Md. MARY BENTLY THOMAS . . . Ednor, Md. CORNELIA H. BENTLEY . . Sandy Spring, Md.

SHERWOOD FRIENDS' SCHOOL, situated near Sandy Spring, Montgomery county, Maryland, will open for its sixteenth year on 9th month (September) 12th, 1898. This School is under the immediate supervision of the Sandy Spring Meeting of the Society of Friends. The Educational Comittee is made up of intelligent, capable, and progressive men and women, whose intention it is to give the Principal all the aid in their power to make the School a success and a credit to the neighborhood.

At the beginning of the session of 1897-'98 the tuition dees were considerably lowered in order to accommodate the School to the unusually hard times. The same low rates will be continued for the coming session.

Owing to the fact that the School was much larger than had been anticipated, Alice V. Farquhar was procured as Assistant at the opening of the last school year and Augusta N. Thomas as second

Assistant at the beginning of the second session. A second Assistant will also be procured for the coming year if the size of the School justifies the action.

The rooms are large, light, and airy and can be thouroughly heated. They contain valuable works of reference and some physical apparatus.

The grounds are ample and well shaded, and opportunity is offered in them for the pupils to indulge in out-of-door sports.

The Primary Department is composed of the three lowest grades in the School. In this department the hours are from 9 a. m. until 12 m. The pupils will be instructed in Reading, Writing, and Elementary Numbers, and will, through Language Lessons, be introduced to History, Geography, Botany, and other subjects. The aim of the department will be to develop nthe child's powers of attention, observation, and self-control, rather than to weary his brain and memory with abstract facts and principles.