OXFORD FEMALE SEMINARY TEACHERS FOR 1826.
NORTH CAROLINA FEMALE ACADEMY.
THIS Institution, which for several years past, has been conducted by Messrs Andrews and Jones, will in future be superintended by Revd. Joseph Labaree, assisted by Revd. Thomas Skelton and wife, from Massachusetts, Miss Hannah Kennedy, who for several years past has taught Painting and Drawing, in the school of Messrs. Andrews and Jones, and three other able and experienced teachers. The plan of instruction in the institution, will be the same as that heretofore pursued.
Except when parents or guardians have near relatives in town, the pupils will board with the principal, will take their meals at the same table with his family, and in all respects be treated as his own children.
Board and tuition, in all the branches of English study, and needlework, will be charged at only sixty dollars per session. Music at thirty, Painting and Drawing at twenty. The foreign and dead languages, if required, will be taught by competent instructors. The school will be a cheap one. The principal is determined that there shall be no cause of complaint in future of extra and unexpected charges. No charges will be allowed except such as are particularly required by the parent or guardian. The government of the school will be strictly parental—the government of kindness and of reason.
The principal will feel himself responsible for the morals and manners of his pupils, and while everything sectarian on the subject of religion will wholly be avoided, he will do all in his power to give them genteel manners, and to imbue their minds with those moral truths, which elevate the views, ennoble the feelings, and give some just notions of the real dignity of our nature.
The first session will commence on the 2d Monday of January next. Each pupil will be required to furnish her own sheets, blankets and counterpane.
—Raleigh Register, December 16, 1825
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)