NORTHAMPTON ACADEMY, 1835
NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL.
(Jackson, Northampton, C. H. No. Carolina.)
The exercises of this School will be resumed, on Monday, 6th of July, under the direction of the subscriber.
MALE DEPARTMENT. In this division of the School, the course of studies is designed, either to prepare boys for any of our colleges, or to complete the education of those young gentlemen, whose time or means may be insufficient to afford them collegiate advantages. For the benefit of the latter, the studies will be more varied and extended.
Satisfied, both by observation and an experience of six years in his profession, that the mode, common with some teachers in our primary schools, of hurrying students through their preparatory course, with only a smattering, or, at best, an imperfect knowledge of their studies, strikes at the very root of sound education, the subscriber is resolved to continue that system of instruction, heretofore pursued by him, the beneficial results of which, he is proud to say, have been acknowledged by many of the most competent judges in our State. This method is opposed as well to the crowding of too many studies upon the mind at the same time, as to the assigning too great a quantity to each recitation, without regard to the accuracy with which the student receives it.
FEMALE DEPARTMENT. A lady, who from testimonials received, of her character, qualifications, and experience, is fully competent to teach the ordinary solid and ornamental branches of female education, (Music and French included,) will take charge of this department, which, however, will be under the superintendence and control of the subscriber, so that the same mode of instruction, that has been pursued in the Male, will be introduced into the Female School.
Board, for ten or twelve students, may be had in the family of the subscriber, at six dollars per month, or in private families on the same terms—no contingent charge will be made. The Terms of Tuition are the same as heretofore, viz:

For lower branches of English, per session...........    $8.00
For higher     do     do      do         ........ 10.00
For Greek, Latin and French..................................    12.50
For Music (in addition)..........................................    15.00

The session will terminate with a public examination on the first Thursday and Friday in December.
By order of the Trustees,                     Robt. A. Ezzell, Principal.

The editors of the Petersburg Intelligencer, Halifax Advocate and Edenton Gazette will please give the above three insertions, and forward their accounts to the subscriber.                                    R. A. E.
—The Star, June 28, 1835.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)