ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1826.
HILLSBOROUGH FEMALE SEMINARY.
THE First Session of this Institution closed on the 17th ult.—at which time an approved Examination of the pupils was sustained in the presence of the School Committee. The exercises of this Seminary will be resumed on Thursday the 12th of January next. Competent Instructors will be in readiness at that time to meet the wishes of those Parents and Guardians who may commit their Children to our care, with a view to their instruction, in either the useful or ornamental branches of Female Education. The Superintendent, deeply impressed with the importance of rightly training those who are now the damgh-ters, but are shortly to be the wives and mothers of the community, pledges himself, as before, to exercise parental watchfulness over his pupils, and to give such direction to the instructions of the Seminary, as shall adapt them to the eternal as well as temporal interests of those committed to his care.
Everything taught shall be taught thoroughly and with a view to practical life.—And although the lighter gratifications of female education, usually called "accomplishments" shall be attended to in their proper place and measure, yet the chief aim of the Instructor shall be to fit their pupils for usefulness, by inculcating, both by precept and example, moderation, forbearance, good temper, self-control, and the morality of the Gospel.
To Parents and Guardians at a distance, who may commend their children to his attention, the Superintendent engages to provide them with board, in families convenient to the Academy, and where all due attention will be paid to their morals, their manners, and their comfort.
Terms of Tuition at the usual rates.—Board can be obtained in the most respectable families at $10 per month, including wood, washing, candles, &c. W. M. Green, Superintendent.
Hillsborough, Dec. 1st, 1825.
The Editors of the Raleigh Star, Newbern Sentinel, Edenton Gazette, Fayetteville Observer, Cape Fear Recorder, and Western Carolinian, are requested to publish the above for three successive weeks, and forward their accounts to the office of the Hillsborough Recorder for payment.
—Raleigh Register, December 20, 1825.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
