The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-05-26
TOME INSTITUTE.
Will Open Its Doors in September-frelim
mary Announce ment.

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| FOUNDATION.
The Tome Institute, at Port Deposit
has been established by the Hon. Jacot
Tome, as token OF his appreciation Of
the value of education and of his desire
to extend the benefits Of both general
aud special training.
GENERAL AIM,
Tome Institute purposes to afford
worthy students such training
academic, technical, art, or professional
as will best fit for effective living.
While this general aim will underlie
aud shape the development of the school
it's growth in detail will be somewhat
determined by local conditions and
demands.
SCOPE OF FIRST YEARS WORK.
academic Departmental its first
year Tome Institute will attempt as its
chief work the organization and develop
ment of an academic course. including
primary, grammar, and high school
grades. A Kindergarten ia connection
with this department will form the
logical entrance to it.
In connection with the usual studies
of the primary, grammar. ana high
school, graded courses in form study and
drawing, and manual training will be
an organic part of the curriculum.
The drawing and manual training in
this course are not for skill of hand or
eye, save as this comes incidentally.
They are intended as features essential
to the symmetry of general training.
Science will be taught throughout the
course, according to the latest approved
methods. In the lower grades much Of
the work will be done in the class room.
Laboratories containing every facility
for the best work will be provided for
the students Of the higher grades, for
experimentation under the supervision Of
the science teacher.
Well lighted rooms will be set apart
for form study, free hand and instru-
mental drawing, clay modelling and wood
carving.
Iu the lower grades the manual train
ing work will be doue in the class rooms
and in the higher grammar aud high
school grades in the shops.
Students may enter any grade of the
grammar or high school for which they
are prepared, but the standard for
entrance to the different grades will be
rigidly adhered to.
The whole aim of the academic depart
ment is broad training Tor effective
citizenship; its features "f form study
and drawing and manual training not
being introduced for their technical but
for their educational value. At the same
time, experience has shown taat such
studies tend to awaken wholesome
interest and to develop power in crafts
manship.
All intending students must forward
credentials as to character, obtained
from pastors or teachers. Application
blanks may be obtained from the
Registrar. These must be filled out
and returned to Registrar, Tome
Institute, Port Deposit, Md
Special Courses. in domestic
art COOKERY. sewing, millinery, ID the
commercial arts (accountaptship,
stenography. and typewriting), in the
mechanic arts, in art drawing, painting
music, instrumental and vocal, modelling
wood carving), will be offered as the
demand requires. Correspondence with
students desiring such courses is solicited
but clear and concise statements of the
scope of instruction desired under the
subjects above enumerated are earnestly
requested.
The Library.-Auxiliary to the work
of the school, it is the intention of the
Trustees to develop library. Besides
the ordinary reference books-diction-
aries, ency clopedias, indexes, etc.-the