Circular: Sherwood Friends School, 1891-92

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TENTH ANUUAL CIRCULAR (1892-1893)

OF

Sherwood Friends' School,

AN

Elementary and High School

FOR

BOTH SEXES.

SANDY SPRING, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.

CHARLES M. STABLER, A. B. LL. B., - Principal.

WITH

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

List of Teachers and Patrons for 1891-1892

BALTIMORE

T. NEWTON KURTZ & SON,

1892.

TENTH ANNUAL CIRCULAR

(1892-1893)

OF

Sherwod Friends' School,

AN

Elementary and High School

FOR

BOTH SEXES.

SANDY SPRING, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD

CHARLES M. Stabler A. B., LL. B., Principal.

WITH

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

List of Teachers and Patrons for 1891-1892

BALTIMORE:

T. Newton Kurtz & Son,

1892.

OFFICERS AND TEACHERS FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1892-1893

CHARLES M. STABLER Principal (A. B., Yale, 1876; LL. B., Uuniversity of the City of N. Y., 1880,) Mathmetics and Languages.

MRS. CORNELIA STABLER, Associate Prinipal.

BELLE W. HANNUM, Mathmetics, History, Natural Science.

MRS. ELIZABETH P. M. THOM, English Literature.

SARAH B. FARQUHAR, Englishs Branches.

JESSIE B. Stabler, English Branches.

ELISE HUTTON, Music, Drawing, and Wood Carving.

JAMES P. STABLER, Shop Work in Wood and Metal.

French Conversation.

Tutors in Study Hall.

MRS. CORNELIA HALLOWELL BENTLEY, Matron of Girls' Broading Department.

MRS. HALLIE CHANDLEE BENTLEY, Matron of Boys' Broadig Department.

CIRCULAR.

1892-1893.

LOCATION.

Sherwood Friends' School is located at Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, eighteen miles north of Washington, and twenty-five miles west of Baltimore. It is accessible from Washington and Baltimore by stages from Laurel, on the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroadl and from Washington also by way to Rock ville, on the Metropolitan Branch of the same railroad. Carriages may be hired at Laurel at a moderate price. It is usually advisable to come by way of Laurel.

The vicinity of the School is a gently rolling county, 530 to 550 feet above tide water, and has an exceptionally high record for health. It is occupied by a prosperous and intelligent farming community, in which the social and moral influences are of the most favroable nature. The ample opportunities for outdoor recreations and occupations, the quiet home life of the community, and the freedom from the distractions and temptations of the city, are especially favorable to sustematic development of both mind and body, and are regarded as full compensation for the slight difficlties of access.

ADMISSION.

Scholars are admitted at about the age of eght years, or whenever they are found able to begin the First Reader. We prefer to have scholars entered at the earliest possble age, in order that correct mental habits may be formed at the outset. They may attend school as day scholars, and live with parents or with caretakers selected by parents, in

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which case the principal takes no responsibility for them out of school hours; or they may be admitted as boarding scholars, in which case the principal places them in the two homes used as the boarding department, and keeps them udner the personal supervision and control of himself and the associate principal.

BOARDING DEPARTMENT.

The two houses used for the boarding department are situated near each otherm and opposite the school building, at an average distance of about five hundred yeards. The nearer home, that of mrs. Cornelia Hallowell Bentley, is occupied by the girls and youngest boys; the other home, Mrs. Hallie Chandlee Bentley's, is reserved for the older boys. Both houses will be well heated an otherwise adapted to school purposes. The principal an associate principal will live at the former home, and in addition to the general supervision of the scholars of both homes out of school hours, they will hol every evening a study period of an hour and a half, which all boarding scholars will attend.

Several private families in the neighborhood will receive scholars to board at about five dollars a week, or at less for the school days only. Such scholars will attend school as day scholars.

CHURCHES.

There are four religious denominations in the neighborhood, an Episcopal church, a Methodist church, and two Friends' Meetings, one of each branch. Scholars will attend one or another of these as parents may designate; but if parents fail to express their preferences, the choice will be left partly to the scholars.

GOVERMENT.

The school is under the general supervision of an Executive Comittee appointed by the Sandy Spring Meeting of the Society of Friends. The welfare of the School and of