HILLIARDSTON EXAMINATIONS, 1820.
HILLIARDSTON ACADEMY.
THE Trustees of this Academy, who attended the late semi-annual examination, feel it their duty to declare to the public their very high satisfaction, with which they marked on that occasion, the unexampled progress, the accuracy and singular decorum, evinced by the students; by which they gained for themselves and Mr. Stone their tutor, most unqualified applause.
The pupils were exercised critically on the several subjects annexed to their respective classes, among which, no distinction of individuals is now made. 1st class, composed of two small boys, examined on spelling; 2nd class, was examined on spelling; 3rd a numerous class on reading and spelling by rote; 4th Reading; 5th Arithmetic to reduction; 6th Reading, Grammar and Arithmetic; 7th A large class on Arithmetic, to single rule of three in vulgar fractions; 8th a class on English Grammar and Parsing; 9th Arithmetic from single rule of three to the cube root; 10th Algebra to the twenty-sixth problem; 11th a class on Selectae e Vetere ten chapters; 12th English Grammar, Parsing, 1st chapt. Gospel according to St. John; 13th Ovid's Metamorphis; 14th Cicero; Oration agt.    Caecilius; 15th Xenophon's Cyropaedia.
The visit of the Trustees, to the Academy, was closed, on the second day, after delivery, by a number of the students of select orations, and the representation of many humorous dialogues, to a crowded and respectable assembly.
Hilliardston School has a pleasant and elevated situation in the country; above the falls of the rivers and within that range of hills, which traverses our country in a line with the sea coast, distinctly making the boundary of the low lands.
The plan of the School contemplates an union of the several advantages of public and of private Education, while it secures youth from the evils of both. The student may feel here that emulation, which public schools are said to inspire, may fairly measure his capacity with that of others, learning, thereby, duly to appreciate his own powers, may collect from intercourse and experience a knowledge of the motives, whether noble or debased, that regulate human action, and thus enter on life, not entirely in his novitiate as to the true nature of man. Whilst the evils of private tuition have been thus removed, it has been much our care to avoid those, with some far greater, that are necessarily incident to situations public and exposed. A display of objects, that attract the gaze and divide the attention of unstaid youth, that call forth and seduce their passions; dissolute company, to which, when exposed they have so great a proneness, and from which, after initiations, it is so difficult for them to escape, are objects that have prevailed with many, particularly the Nobles of Europe, and have lead them, who can afford it, to select private tutors, to direct the earlier part of a son's education. These objects and these seducements, from our very situation are entirely precluded.
The Academy will be re-opened on the last Monday in June, and the session will expire with the first or second week of December. Mr. Stone, who has presided for the last six months, will conduct the school. The prices of tuition per session, will be, for Languages and Sciences, ten dollars; for all other branches, eight dollars. Board, the most approved, may be had in sight of the Academy, for six dollars per month.
Nash, June 12.                                               Wm. Burt, Secretary.