STONY HILL ACADEMY FOR 1838.
The exercises will commence again at this school 2nd Monday in January, and terminate about 15th June.- The entire expenses, for Board, Tuition, etc. will be $50 per session. Books and Candles, when furnished, will constitute the only extra charge. In this Institution are taught the Latin and Greek Languages, with the various branches of a Mathematical and English Education. Those who intend a course at college, will invariably use such authors as are recommended by the Faculty of our University.
Stony Hill is well situated, and has many advantages for the studious. It is retired, in a healthy country: free from the noise and bustling of town and village distractions; a sufficiency of comfortable and convenient rooms; a well selected and growing library, belonging to and under the direction of the students; a well conducted debating society, under their own regulations, from which all political and religious discussions are excluded. It also has many advantages to the satisfaction and interest of Parents: their sons are treated with kindness and mildness, at the same time they are made to behave themselves.
Their health and comfort, as well as education and deportment, are attended to; no idling, contracting debts, nor vicious indulgences. Thus, whilst the studious and thoughtful find many things to interest them, and render their situation agreeable and comfortable; whilst they enjoy themselves, and are happy in the prosecution of their studies; the idle and vicious become restive, long to be free from proper restraint, and, by artifice, frequently impose on their credulous and unsuspecting parents; thereby leaving the studious in the full enjoyment of their quiet, and the possession of these advantages which none but the studious care for or know how to appreciate.
Parents are requested to visit the school frequently.
Address at Ransom's Bridge, N. C.
Dec. 2, 1837.                                                             M. R. Garrett.
—The Raleigh Star, December 6, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)