The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-11-29
TOME INSTITUTE.
Letter From the Director Showing What Tome
Institute Is Doing and Is Prepared To Do For
the Children Of Our Own Community
and the Surrounding Country.

ronage of girls from the upper part Of the
comfy. have made an effort repeatedly to
have this train service improved, but without
avail have appealed to Mr.. Whitney, the
superintendent of the Maryland Division to
put on another train to accommodate the
school children who come from points between
here and Oxford, but he has been unable to
meet my desires We could accommodate
twice the number of girls who attend our
school without any increased expenditure.
We do all that we can to attract students
but the school population of cur immediate
vicinity is small; the train service is poor and
finally the public schools in such towns as
Havre de Grace are improving so that parents
hesitate to send their girls on the trains.
Withsa view to extend d knowledge as to
what is being done, we published catalog
last year. This contains statement of the
courses which are given in the Town Schools
and is for free distribution.
The Institute expends approximately $4,000
a year for the maintenance of the schools in
the town. Ifyou will divide this sum by the
number of pupils In the Town Schools you
will observe that the per capita is exceedingly
high. AS have said before, however, our
aim has been to have the highest efficiency
that is obtainable.
A number of girls in this Girls High School
have gained honors in college. One of them
has obtained the Phi Beta Kappi honor at
Smith college; another is making an excep-
tionally good record at the present time at
Smith. The entire preparation of these girls
was obtained at our school. large number
of graduates have gone to Normal schools and
are now teachers throughout the State and
elsewhere.
have dealt chiefly with the Girls High
School The elementary schools include the
usual primary and grammar grades and in
addition kindergarten which is blessing to
the town. This kindergarten is in the hands
of two competent women who give their at
tention to the work with the small children.
The supervision of the Town Schools is in
the hands OF Mr.. Walter b. Hatfield, a grad
uate Of Princeton University.-a man who is
In hearty sympathy with the aims of the insti-
tuition and the needs of the community
All these advantages are given absolutely
without cost to parents. have never known
Of single boy or girl who is resident of the
State of Maryland who applied for admission
who was not accepted. When pupil is adj
mitted he receives not only books without
charge but all his schools supplies, drawing
Materials laboratory materials and manual
training materials The school is absolutely
without cost and everyone who comes to us is
heartily welcome. In fact, we should prefer
to have q larger enrolment in order to Justify
the extraordinary expenditures thatare made.
With regard to boys above the Sixth grade,
there are nearly. q hundred OF these boys who
come to school on the hill. They have the
same opportunities and facilities as the boys
who come from distance and who pay from
$500 to $3.50 a year, except that they do not re-
ceive free board. They are members of the
same classes; they work in the same shops and
laboratories and take part in the same games.
They receive every encouragement to improve
themselves. No discrimination as far as i
have been able to ascertain, has ever been
made against industrious and worthy day
students. OF the twenty scholarships recently
awarded by the Johns Hopkins University for
the new Technical school. five were won by
graduates of the Tome Institute OF these
five, four were day boys,-one living in Port
Deposit. one from Perryville. one from Havre
de Grace and one from Aberdeen.
Another one of our former day students
holds scholarship in the Academic Depart
ment OF the Johns Hopkins University In
the examinations held this year for the Frank
Thompson scholarships, two of our day stu
dents stood second and third or the list.
Day students who have graduated from
school have made excellent records at Prince
ton, at Dickinson, at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, at Lehigh. ut Cornell, at
Lafayette, at the University of Virginia and
at Swarthmore, One of the graduates who
was day student in this school, is now a
member of the faculty and at the head of the
Department of Science. Another one of the
day students is the manager of our Inn, and
another one is assistant to the manager
In the boys school, the curriculum is also
far more extensive than that which is given
in most high schools and prepatory schools.
The Manual Training Department is one of
the best in the country; the Commercial De-
partment fits boys to take positions as book
keepers, etc. Not only do we give the day
boys as complete training as possible but an
effort is made also to secure positions for
them after they have graduated. All these
facilities are also given without any cost what
ever. There are no laboratory fees or gradua-
tion fees or fees of any kind
The cost of conducting the Hill school this
year will be $125.000 The fees from the board
ers this year should slightly exceed this
amount. You win observe, therefore, that the
boarding school is not only self-supporting but
it pays the expenses for the education OF near
~ hundred boys. The income from the
tuition fees paid by boarding students is in
creasing and as our resources increase we can
extend our facilities even beyond the extraor-
binary point which they have already reached
II 1t were not for the day boys who attend
school it would be possible to dispense with
one-third OF our faculty and the cost of main
tanning the Hill school would be at least thirty
per cent less.
In addition to the advantages which are Of
tered To children by the Institute, the general
public has also unusual opportunities We
have a library in the Hill school and in the
Town schools, numbering nearly, 1900 vol
ames This e open :! TO anyone who v9. cares 70
library. The reading room also contains q
very extensive list of current publication.
The lectures. concerts and sermons are open
70 the public without any charge whatever
We make an effort to have some of the most
distinguished men in the country speak before
our students and IL is great advantage to the
community to be admitted on such occasions.
As a native of our naighboring county, am
unusually interested In the boys and girls OF
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