UNION ACADEMY, 1816.
The Trustees of the Union Academy, in the county of Halifax, respectfully inform the Public, that the Institution is now in full and complete operation, the Exercises having commenced on the second instant, under the direction of William E. Webb, formerly Professor of Languages in the University of this State. The Plan of Education will be such at least as to qualify young gentlemen to enter with credit and propriety on the establishment of any College or University of this country. For the present however, the following scheme hath been adopted, according as the. several forms or classes can be arranged, viz:
I. Rudiments of the Latin, Greek and French Languages.
II. Geography, including the nature and use of the Globes, with their application to the solution of Geographical and Astronomical Problems.
III. Mathematics, viz:
The higher branches of Arithmetic.
Surveying on the most recent and approved plans.
Euclid's Elements.
Plain and Spherical Trigonometry and Geometry, with their application to the purposes of Astronomy and Navigation.
The mensuration of Heights, Distances, Surfaces and Solids.
IV. Natural or Experimental Philosophy including Astronomy.
V. Chronology and General History.
VI. English Grammar, Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres.
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Tuition will be Ten Dollars per session paid in advance.
* * * Jesse N. Faulcon,
February 10, 1915. President of. the Board.
Attached to the Academy is an English School, under the direction of a gentleman well qualified for the duties of his profession. —Raleigh Register, February 17, 1815.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
