MOUNT PLEASANT ACADEMY, 1837.
The Spring Session of this institution will commence on the 15th of January, 1837. This Academy, situated in the county of Orange twelve miles north west of Hillsborough, six miles north of Mason Hall, and six miles west of Prospect Hill in Caswell county, offers every facility for a complete academical course of education and upon as reasonable terms as the high prices of the times will possibly justify. There will be two full sessions of five months each in the year.
The prices for instruction in the first class are five dollars per session, and in the second class ten dollars per session.
The first class among other things comprises the following branches, viz. Penmanship, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography with the use of the Maps, etc.: History, Philosophy, Logic, Astronomy. The branches taught in the second class are the Latin, Greek and French Languages.
At the expiration of the first session there will be a public examination, and a vacation of two weeks. The very flattering manner in which this institution has been patronized by a generous public lays the subscriber under many strong obligations, and produces in him a determination neither to spare expenses, pains, nor labour, to render this institution in every respect inferior to none of the kind in the State.
The subscriber is prepared to accommodate twelve or fifteen students with board at six dollars per month. Board can be had convenient to the academy for any amount of students.
If any person should wish to correspond with the subscriber upon the subject of the Academy, he will please direct to Pleasant Grove post office. Daniel W. Kerr.
Pleasant Grove, Orange, Dec. 1.
—Raleigh Star, January 12, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
