The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-25

Baltimore County Has a New and
| Unique Educational Institution.-The lay
ing ofthe cornerstone for the auditorium group
OF buildings at Dread. on the N. G. r. R., Balti-
more county, on the 18th inst, marks the begin
ming of what will prove one of the most unique
educational institutions in the country, If the
plans of its president, Mr.. Henry d. Perky, are
carried out. 1t is q school where both boys
and girls are taught to do as well as to know,
and is being moved here from Massachusetts.
Dread is on the old Filston Farm near Glen
coe Station, and takes in about 1000 acres.
Inc property was purchased recently by Mr..
Perky, who is a millionaire, and is interested
IN the education Of young men and women.
he expects shortly to have station built on
the railway few miless south of Glencoe, which
Will be known as Dread, which is about 70
miles from Baltimore.
Since 1898 Mr.. Perky has been the head of
an institution named Dread at Worcester, Mass,
where young women Learned to do by doing"
They were educated there along practical lines,
but recently it was found that the place was
Tar too small to accommodate the applicants,
and the few acres owned by the president
would not permit of the carrying out OF bis
ideas. Then it was that he started to look for
another site, and finally purchased the proper
y in Maryland. Since then he has added to
the original Filston Farm more than 600 acres
Though Mr.. Perky has held the title to the
property only about month, he is determined
70 have his main group of buildings completed
by September, and there is a spirit of activity
on the farm that would put to shame most of
the Baltimore merchants who lost their ware
houses in the great fire. Mr.. Perky has moved
10 the big house on the farm, and there will be
his future home. The school buildings are
being erected on high hill, commanding
view of almost the entire property.
The old Dread has been great success since
II was acquired by its present owner, six years
ago. He is creating the new Dread upon the
basis of the experience he has acquired in con-
nection with the school heis about to abandon.
The new one is amply endowed with money,
lands, buildings, and equipment for the two
great departments of the new institution
Domestic science, including household eco
nemics and how to live, for girls and young
woyen.
Natural science, including agricultural in
dustral arts aud commerce. for boys and young
men.
The regular normal course in domestic science
includes cookery, chemistry of food, market
ing, holhe economics, practical housework,
Laundry, ewing, sanitation, physical training,
elocution, physiology, physics, chemistry, bac-
children, PEDAGOGY, psychology and allied
topics including the domestic arts. Lectures
and textbooks are used to give knowledge of
the sciences, bat practical work and laboratory
me are followed BY each pupil, SO that
The institution has had only this one de-
partment, owing 10 the limited space at Wor-
cester. Now, however, Mr.. Perky says he has
chance to realize his dreams, and will have
both girls and boys in September. In the in
struction of the boysand young men the same
general principle is applied as with the girls
and young women. lectures and text books
will be used to some extent, but practical opera
tions in field. barn, stable, workshop, etc.,
will be depended upon to fit the pupil Ito exc.
cute, to work, to do" as we'll as to mentally
absorb facts. In other words, Mr.. Perky says
that he proposes that the boys shall not only
acquire knowledge, but also develop the capa-
city to use it.
The course includes agriculture in all its
branches, drainage and irrigation, soils and
crops. construction and care of farm buildings
and the home, marketing and accounts, horti-
culture and forestry, animal husbandry, dairy
ing poultry and bees, veterinary science and
practice, the industrial arts, freehand and me-
chanical drawing, shop work in metal and
wood, architecture and construction, business
training and commercial law, experience in
buying and selling, accounts and accounting
planning business methods, selfgovernment,
appropriations.
An interesting feature of the old Dread which
will be introduced at the new is that the stu
dent body is practically selfgoverning. The
students elect officers, enact rules and make
1t is miniature republic sub.
ject, of course, to the veto of its president. Mr..
Perky believes that such participation in the
of the enterprise is of no small
value to under graduates. In speaking of the
new Dread Mr.. Perky said:
~ purchased the Filston Farm and have been
adding to it in order that can carry out my
ideas. At Worcester there was not the room,
and so came here to Maryland. ask no
financial aid for the institution, nor do ask
that it be exempt from taxation. / believe it
is far better for pupils to work with both head
and hands than to be supported in manual idle
ness and engaged in mental effort alone.
"When Dread gets in working order intend
to establish market for Dread products in the
building on Calvert street, opposite Calvert
Station, which belonged to the Filston Farm.
Every morning carload of produce will be
sent to the city for market. have already had
several hundred applications FOR ADMISSION
rags ooInp,oteu ny 'Soptrmuer. VIII make
my future home here and superintend the cree