HILLSBOROUGH FEMALE SEMINARY, 1826.
THE Exercises of this Institution will commence on the first day of August, under the immediate care of Miss Lavinia Brainerd, and under the inspection and superintendence of Rev. William M. Green.
The course of instruction in this seminary will be carried on in a regular continued system of Academic studies, embracing all the sceientific and ornamental branches necessary to complete the female education.
Pupils from abroad can be accommodated with board in the most respectable families of the place, at the rate of ten dollars per month. Arrangements, however, are now making, by which it is intended to instruct the more advanced pupils in house-wifery and in all the various branches of domestic economy. Whilst all due attention will be paid to the ordinary and the ornamental branches of education, the instructors will deem it their imperious duty to pay especial regard to the morals & manners of the young ladies committed to their care.
There will be a select committee of literary ladies and gentlemen to attend the semi-annual examinations, to decide on the merits and progress of the pupils, and to place them in the several classes.
Those pupils who shall have completed their course of studies with acceptance, will receive a Diploma with the signatures of their instructors and of the examining committee, and under the seal of the seminary.
The studies of the several classes will be arranged in the following order:
First Class.—Reading, Writing, Orthography, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Modern Geography, Elements of Composition.
Second Class.—Ancient, Modern & Sacred Geography, Use of the Globes, Map-drawing, Natural History, History of the United States.
Third Class.—Algebra, Elements of Euclid, Tytler's History, Rhetoric, Elements of Criticism, Astronomy, Chronology, and Natural Philosophy.
Fourth Class.—Moral Philosophy, Evidences of Christianity, Natural Theology, Chemistry, Botany, Mineralogy and Logic.
In addition to the above, lessons will be given in Music, Drawing and Painting in all its styles, in plain and ornamental Needle-work, and in making Fruit and Flowers in Wax.
There will be two vacations in the year; one of six weeks during the winter, the other of a fortnight during the summer. The first session will end about the middle of November next; and a proportionable deduction be made in the price of tuition on account of the shortness of the session.
PRICES OF TUITION.
For First Class, per session.....................
For Second Class, per session....................
For Third and Fourth Classes, per session........
All the ornamental branches taught at the usual prices Hillsboro', July 9.
The Editors of the Raleigh Star, Carolina Observer, Cape Fear Recorder, Newbern Sentinel, Edenton Gazette and Western Carolinian, are requested to give the above three insertions, and forward their accounts to the Editor of the Hillsborough Recorder for payment.
—Raleigh Register, July 15, 1825.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
