in every respect, with eleven grades, offering four year courses in Ele- 

 mentary Agriculture, Domestic Science, and Music. It has an efficient 

 teaching force, and material equipment reasonably ample for all its needs. 

 Provision is made for the social and recreational life of the pupils. The 

 school is under the influence of the Friends' whose educational ideals 

 are notably high. There are other elementary schools within the borders 

 of the neighborhood, but the educational life of the community centers 

 about this High School. 



The social organization of this neighborhood is sharp and distinct. 

 There are three economic and three social classes. Class lines are de- 

 finitely drawn. Among the members of the Sandy Spring social group, 

 there is a distinct class consciousness. There is no wealth qualification 

 for admittance to this circle, but the qualifications of education, morality, 

 and congeniality. Another class is composed partly of farm owners 

 and partly of tenants. A third class is the group of laborers and small 

 renters. This last named class have little or no social life. They are 

 within the neighborhood, but are not of it. The second class mentioned 

 is somewhat more compact than these. But practically, we may say, 

 the Sandy Spring community means that social group which we have 

 been discussing. Class consciousness is here a form of community 

 consciousness. 



The question of social control within this group, is a peculiarly in- 

 teresting one. There are forces at work which have long since produced 

 a distinctive type and which now induce adherence to it. There are 

 forces working for the continuity of social institutions and for a high 

 form of what we may call social cohesion. There is, for example the 

 force of their common religion, distinctive and different from the faith 

 of the people round about them. This serves both to separate them 

 from others and to bind them closely together. Had the line of cleavage 

 here been less distinct it is doubtful if the community could have retained 

 its individuality through so long a period of time. Then too this is, 

 as we have said, a religion which emphasizes practical ideals dealing 

 directly with neighborhood activities and associations, and having 

 intimate relation with all that is important in their daily life. The 

 Meeting provides for them a program of service as well as a stimulus to 

 worship, and by working together, so constantly and in such a diversity 

 of ways the social group becomes solidified. This result is made the 

 easier of achievement since the membership of the Meeting has always 

 included practically all of those who are prominent in the community 

 socially. 



The Annals, which we have mentioned, affect the community in 

 helping it to maintain a sense of its own continuity. The present is 

 intimate with the past to a degree not at all true of the typical rural 



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