The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-16


work in commerce unnecessary. He
secured majority of the Faculty, and
the proposed commercial course was
not accepted. The writer then ap-
pealed to the Board. and the Faculty
was compelled to give the writer four
years commercial course, while DR..
! Fisk was given a rival course in his
tory and economics four years in
length. The next year he had three
students, while the commercial course
had over fifty.
| When the Faculty learned that Mr..
Stevenson had been made editor of the
defunct J. T. I. Monthly, the majority
of them were opposed to so new
teacher having SO great an honor, and
they held meeting to prevent it. The
first number, May. 1901, came out be-
fore they had drawn their resolutions.
| The writer continued as editor all the
next year, assisted by over twenty stu
| dents and several members of the Fac
ulty. Many of the Faculty opposed it
in every possible way, even advising
students not to allow their commence
ment orations to be published, ETC.,
etc. One DR.. Curran, who had been
absent during the last half of Iooo-I,
was particularly opposed to it on his
return in September, 1901. He said
that he could not approve one word in
it, that the Monthly was not a students
publication, that the Faculty had too
much to do with it, and that the
writer's management of it was not
sustained by the best precedents in
academic journalism" Mr.. Steven
sons answer is appended as Exhibit
D" for the purpose of showing his atti-
tude toward men whose educational lit
tleness is we'll known to all in Port
Deposit and many in Cecil county.
"The Tome" succeeded the Monthly
in the fall of 1909, and separate num-
bers were issued for the boys and the
girls. A comparison of the Monthly
with THE Tome" will show anyone
the two types of educational theory that
have existed in the Institute.
In September, 1901, DR.. Harris came
to the Institute as Director to succeed
DR.. Mackenzie. He pledged Mrs.
Tome and Rev. Mowbray before his
election that he would not do as Mac
kenzie had done. He expressed him.
self as being in sympathy with Jacob
Tones wishes, and also with the COM
mercial course. We shall be able to
prove that in both respects he has
proved false. For the first half of the
year DR.. Harris remained practically
all the time at the University of Maine,
and DR.. French conducted the Tnsti-
tute. DR.. Curran having returned from
California, made demand for the sub
ject of commercial law which Mr.. Ste
venson had been elected to teach This
was the beginning of an attack on the
commercial department by DR.. Fisk
of the course in history and economics,
and his understudy, DR.. Curran of the
same department. These two learned
doctors found themselves with three
students for their four years course,
while the commercial course had fully
one-third of the Senior School. DR..
French as acting Director told DR..
Curran that his claims for the teaching
of the study named were not well
founded. Whereupon, the learned
doctor proceeded to organize the clas-
steal men. and although DIR. Fisk was
dropped at the close of the year, the
writer and DR.. French and others who
did not agree with them, or rather bow
to them, have felt their displeasure
ever since. When DR.. Harris took con-
troll, IN January, 1908, he found two
distinct parties in the school-those
who desired to serve the students OF the
county and State, and those who still
held to. the plans OF DR.. Mackenzie for
a rich boys boarding school, and
sought notoriety and display. The for
mer class was supported by Mrs. Tome
and her father and brother, the latter
class by the two Hopkinses, and the
remainder of the Board seemed to be
looking for and interested in anything
else but the quality of the instruction,
and the bene6ciaries of the school.
Everything seemed to depend upon DR..
Harris. and for time he made both
parties feel that he was to be fair and
neutral. Toward the close OF the year,
the senior class elected a commercial
student valedictorian. She was in every
way the brightest student in her class,
and the class wanted her. and they had
always elected their own valedictorian
in the past years. The classicists were
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