For the Star.
Mr. Editor: Having, on the 9th inst., attended an examination of the Farmwell Grove Academy, I cannot forbear offering you, for publication, a brief notice of the same, or of my favorable impressions from the result. Suffice to say of the examination, that, being conducted by several well educated gentlemen, before a numerous and highly respectable assembly, but one impression could not but be made on the minds of all, as to the handsome qualifications and untiring industry of Mr. J. Judge the principal, and the assiduous application of the students during the past session. The dialogues and single pieces appeared to be well selected, and calculated as well to instruct, as to amuse and entertain.
The exhibition was closed by a highly appropriate and well delivered address, by the Eev. S. J. Harris. From the mouth of the speaker alone could be had a correct impression of the merits of this address. But it may be remarked here, that, the all important point enforced was the moral necessity of uniting religion and literature in order to ensure the grand result of usefulness and happiness. And the students were emphatically warned against three most potent enemies of such result, viz: idleness, intemperance and infidelity.
The writer is one no otherwise interested in the Farmwell Grove Academy, or those taking a part in its late exercises, than by philanthropy and love of education, and therefore signs himself
A Spectator.
—The Star, June 21,1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
