Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
DEDICATORY EXERCISES OF
JACOB TOME INSTITUTE
AN INTERESTING OCCASION AT PORT De.
POST, MARYLAND, LAST WEEK.
Many Prominent Educators Present and the
Town in Gala Attire-TraCk Meet Fea-
ture of the Program Rendered.

ture of the Program Rendered.
On Friday and Saturday, May Is and
16, The Jacob Tome Institute, Port
Deposit, Maryland, held a notable
celebration to inaugurate the new
grounds and buildings of the boys
boarding school, costing nearly mill
lion dollars. Delegates from univer-
stiles, colleges and schools, and guests
from all over the United States, were
present in hundreds. Special excur-
sion trains and boats were run, and
throngs poured into Port Deposit to
see school unique in its wealth of
equipment and surroundings. The list
of speakers included men of great pro-
minence. After day and a half of
formal dedicatory exercises came a
track meet of twenty three schools in
which there were 400 entries, the big
gest event of the kind ever held in this
part of the country.
The exercises opened Friday fore
noon when the visitors after an in
formal reception inspected the beauti-
full buildings and grounds. At three
they assembled in Memorial Hall, the
man building. Peter E. Tome, Esq
of Baltimore, nephew of the schools
founder, Jacob Tome, and Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees, deliver
ed an address of welcome. United
States Senator Louis Emory McCOmas
of Maryland then spoke for the state.
The other speakers were as follows:
DR.. Charles Curtis Harrison, Provost
C: the University of Pennsylvania,
representing the colleges and univer-
sities; DIR. George H. Denny, Presi-
dent of Washington and Lee Univer-
sity; Reverend Simon J. Mcpherson,
Head Master of the Lawrenceville
School; and James II. VanSickle, Esq.
Superintendent Of Education, Balti-
more. Jane R. Campbell, Esq, rep
resentiag Mrs. Jacob Tome, closed the
exercises by unveiling the new por
trait of Jacob Tome who died about
five years ago. In the evening the
Choral Society of the Institute accom-
panied by an orchestra gave a concert
in Memorial Hall, followed by recep-
tion at the residence of the Director,
DR.. A. W. Harris, to the delegates,
guests and friends of the school.
Everrieas of Oedicat,on at MamoriaI Hall
Saturday morning at ten the dele
gates, trustees and faculty assembled
at the Institute Inn. Forming in line,
they proceeded in academic costume
to Memorial Hall where the special ex-
ercises of dedication we're held. The
procession was exceedingly impress
sive, consisting, as it did. of disting
uished men from the North and the
South, college presidents and profess
sors of note, men prominent in the
church, and in the state and national
government. Among the speakers at
the Hall were the following: DIR. D.
w. Abercrombie, Head Master of
Worcester Academy; DR.. George E.
Reed, President of Dickinson Col
lege; L. NJ. Haines, Esq, and W. W.
Eopkins, Esq. of the Board of Trus.
tees; Governor John Walter Smith oi
Maryland, who delivered a speech OF
acceptance on the part of the state and
public; and DIR. Ira Remsen, Presiden
of Johns Hopkins University, whC
gave the charge to the Director, Trus
tees and Faculty, to which DR.. A. W
Harris, Director of the Jacob Tome
Institute, responded. The Righ
Reverend Leighton Coleman, BishoI
of Delaware, conducted the ceremon,
of dedication consisting of hymn
prayers and Scriptural selections.
bronze tablet in memory of Jaco
Tome was presented to the school b
the students and their friends wit
formal speeches by student represents
tives of the different grades of the II
stitute. The unfurling of an Ameri
can flag and the singing of america
concluded the mornings ceremonies.
In the afternoon came the big trac
meet between % schools from Marl
lal Pennsylvania, Virginia, Dell
and the District of Columbii
Philadelphia sent 5 teams and Bait
more T. OF the 400 entries, in the II
yards dash there were 20; in the 2:
yards dash, so; in the quarter, 35;
the half, 50; and so on. These fgur
give some idea of the giant proportion
of the meet The Referee was d
George W. Orton, the famous hs
mile runner formerly of the Unive
sity of Pennsylvania. After they me
all the officials and the successful at