CHARLOTTE ACADEMY, 1822.
CHARLOTTE FEMALE ACADEMY.
The Examination in this infant institution took place on Wednesday last. There being but one day set apart for the purpose, business was too much hurried to do justice either to the tutoress or her pupils. Spelling, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, and needlework, together with Bible Questions (Sabbath exercises) were all on the carpet. There was too little difference in classes, owing, in a great measure, to their prudential arrangement, that no particular distinctions was thought necessary or right. We do not hesitate to say that all acquitted themselves with much honor; and that those who were examined on geography and grammar, perhaps, have not been excelled by any. Some who began to memorize grammar since the commencement of the session, parsed blank verse with uncommon ease and propriety. Were we even to attempt to do justice to Miss Leavenworth's character as our tutoress, by many, no doubt, we would be accused of exaggeration; suffice it therefore to observe, that her piety is exemplary, and the advancement of her pupils satisfactorily proves her capability of performing the duties assigned her, and discharging the trust reposed in her.
D. R. Dunlap,
In behalf of the Trustees.
June 22, 1822.

—Western Carolinian, July 9, 1822.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)