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SHERWOOD FRIENDS' SCHOOL, situated
near Sandy Spring, Montgomery county,
Maryland, will open for its nineteenth year
on 9th month (September) 16th, 1901. This School
is under the immediate supervision of the Sandy
Spring Meeting of the Society of Friends. The
Educational Committee 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.

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

The grounds are ample and well shaded, and opportunity
is offered in them for the pupils to indulge
in out-of-door sports, such as tennis, baseball,
basket-ball, etc.

The School is divided into three Departments,
each Department consisting of three classes.

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.

In the course of these three years, pupils are
expected to gain the ability to read ordinary English
with comparative ease; to begin to express
their ideas in writing; to master the four fundamental
operations in Arithmetic and to do some

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