{"id":2419,"date":"2021-11-23T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2022-02-15T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:02:02","slug":"mild-and-healthful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/mild-and-healthful\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mild and Healthful’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Methodist Adventures in Negro Education”<\/em> 
(pg. 91) by the Rev. Jay S. Stowell \u00a9 1922<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During the 1913-14 academic year, the Ford Motor Co. pioneered use of an assembly line to build cars, President Woodrow Wilson authorized the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank, Charlie Chaplin made his film debut in \u201cMaking A Living\u201d and the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity was founded at Howard University in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not far from the nation\u2019s capital, 125 students were enrolled in an impressive array of \u201cacademic and industrial\u201d classes offered at Princess Anne Academy they hoped would help them get ahead in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, the Academy provided instruction to young Blacks at two levels, which in the early 21st<\/sup> century would be equivalent to middle and high school work. The school was supported jointly by the state of Maryland and the Methodist church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuition was free, but students were expected to pay a $1 entrance fee, a $2 book deposit, 50 cents for an athletics fee, and if they lived on campus, $9.75 a month for room and board. Uniforms for boys were $10; girls paid $5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students participated in routine “military exercises,” which apparently were akin to calisthenics. The handbook advised boarding students what personal items they should bring to Princess Anne, described as a bucolic location with a “climate … mild and healthful.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Academy that school year attracted local students from Somerset as well as neighboring counties on the Delmarva Peninsula and as far away as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas H. Kiah<\/a><\/strong> was in his fourth year as principal of the school, which included a 117-acre working farm with crops and livestock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic offerings included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n