PLAN OF STUDIES IN WILLIAMSBOROUGH ACADEMY, 1825.
WILLIAMSBOROUGH ACADEMY.
THE Examination of the Students at this Institution will commence on Thursday, 17th November, and close on the following Saturday. Parents and Guardians are requested to attend. A Wilson.
The department immediately under my own care, will henceforth be divided into four classes, preparatory to the University:
First Class.
Latin Grammar Historia Sacra
Viri Romae Mair's Introduction.
Second Class.
Caesar's Commentaries Ovid Ed. Expurg.
Valpy's G'k. Grammar Latin Prosody.
Third Class.
Virgil Greek Testament
Graeca Minora Roman Antiquities
Modern Geography English Grammar.
Fourth Class.
Sallust Cicero, 7 Orations
Graeca Majora Algebra
Adams' Ancient Geography & English Grammar. Mythology
The time of attendance at the Academy, will be from 9 o'clock until three each day; so that one and a half hours will be occupied in the instruction of each class.
Algebra, Arithmetic, English Grammar, and Reading, will be attended to on Fridays.
I will always have an assistant, well qualified to attend to the English Department
The price of Tuition will be $15 per session in the Classical Department, in the English, $8 and $12 1-2 The exercises will be resumed on the first Monday of January, 1826.
November 1. Alexander Wilson.
—Raleigh Register, November 4, 1825.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)