THE EXAMINATION of the Students in the above Institution will take place on Monday and Tuesday, the 18th and 19th of December.
The Exercises of the School will be resumed on the 15th of January next, under the government, as heretofore, of the Subscriber, as Principal. The following Departments embrace the Course of Studies pursued in this Institution:
I.  The English Department, comprising the various branches of a thorough and extensive English Education;
II.  The Classical Department, comprising the Latin and Greek Languages and Literature;
III.  The Mathematical and Philosophical Department, comprising Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.
With boys who design to enter College, the Preparatory Course of Studies and the standard authors adopted by the Faculty of our own excellent University at Chapel Hill, will be, henceforth, invariably adhered to.
With a view of enlarging the School, the Trustees are at this time engaged in raising funds for the purpose of erecting a large and commodious building, which, it is hoped, will be completed early in the ensuing year.
The situation in the Village (Jackson) in which the Academy is located, is elevated and healthy. Indeed, when we consider the length of time the School has been in operation, the large number of Students it has uniformly had, and the almost uninterrupted health they have enjoyed, we are forced to the conclusion, that the situation is one of the healthiest in the Eastern part of the State.
No boy of disorderly conduct will be admitted into the Institution, or, if admitted, will be suffered to remain after he is found to be incorrigible. This excellent regulation was adopted by the Trustees at the commencement of the present scholastic year, and its salutary effects have been evinced, throughout the year by a uniformly good demeanor on the part of the Students. In the face of this fact, however, (for the truth of which I confidently appeal not only to the Trustees of the Institution, but to the inhabitants of the place and of its vicinity generally, of any respectability or standing,) a rumor has been set afloat and circulated, with a zeal worthy of a good cause, injurious as well to the moral character of the place, as to the standing of the Institution. The assertion may be safely made, that no Court-house village within the range of my acquaintance, is at this time, more uniformly free from temptations to vice or dissipation, than the one in which this Seminary is located.
An able, competent Assistant Teacher will be employed, whose services will be devoted to the 3d Department of Studies, in which he will have the aid of an entirely new Mathematical and Philosophical Apparatus.
Particulars setting forth the price of Board, &c. will be given hereafter.                                                        
Robt. A. Ezell, Principal.
Jackson, Oct. 20, 1837.
Star and Standard, till forbid.                                         R. A. E.
—Raleigh Register, October 30, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)