MOUNT PLEASANT ACADEMY, 1837.
THE Exercises of this Academy will be renewed again on the 15th of January, under the care and supervision of the Subscriber as Principal.—The course of Instruction, as heretofore, will embrace all the branches usually taught in institutions of this kind. Its location in one of the most healthy and moral sections of Orange county, renders it one of the most desirable situations for the education of youth. The discipline exercised is wholly of the parental kind, mild and gentle, though strict and careful. Great attention will be paid to the morals of the Students committed to the care of the Subscriber. Those gentlemen who wish to place their sons or wards in a situation of health, and in one remote from scenes of dissipation, will find this well suited to their wishes.
Having procured the services of a competent Assistant for the ensuing year, the subscriber has been compelled to advance the price of Tuition, in a small degree in some branches. The following may be regarded as the established prices of the Institution:
1st Class. Reading, Orthography, Penmanship, Arithmetic, per Session................................................$ 5 00
2nd Class. English Grammar, Geography, History, Philosophy,
Logic, Astronomy, Chemistry and Rhetoric.................$ 8 00
3d Class. The Latin and Greek Languages, Geometry, Algebra, &c................................................. . .$12 50
Each Session, as formerly, will contain five months, at the expiration of which there will be a vacation of one month. Board can be had in good families, convenient to the Academy, at six dollars per month, each student furnishing his own candles. The Subscriber is prepared to accommodate eight or ten Students with Board.
Students having gone through a course of studies in this Institution, will be prepared for any of our Universities.
December 12. Daniel W. Kerr, Principal.
—Raleigh Register, December 18, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
