1827.

THE Examination of the students of Buffalo Academy, in Lincoln County, under the care of P. J. Sparrow, was held on the 22d inst. The subscribers having attended it, they think it a duty which they owe to the teacher and students of this institution to say, that the students gave evidence of their having been assiduously and correctly taught in the different branches of education, and that they appear to possess that laudable ambition to excel, which is the life of such institutions. The classes examined in the English language, consisted in Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Definition of Words and Geography; and in the dead languages, one class on the Latin Grammar, one on Virgil's Bucolics, one on Virgil's Eneid, Horace's Art of Poetry, and the Greek Testament; and another on Graeca Minvra. The examination was conducted with the utmost propriety and decorum, before a number of respectable visitors, who attended on the occasion, and who appeared to be highly gratified. After a short vacation, the exercises of this institution will again commence, under the care of Mr. Sparrow, whom we would recommend as worthy of public patronage. This Academy is situated in a healthy place, about 17 miles to the southwest of Lincolnton, in a respectable and plentiful neighborhood, where boarding can be had on ready terms.
Lawson Henderson,
David Kiddoe.
 —Catawba Journal, January 2, 1827.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, published 1915)