MRS. PHILLIPS'S FEMALE SEMINARY, AT CHAPEL HILL.
The design of this institution, which has been in operation during the past year only, is to afford young Ladies all the advantages of a thorough, solid, & useful Education.
Terms.
Pupils will be received at an early age, and taught for $65 per session, in advance. The elementary branches, comprehending Reading, Writing, Spelling, etc, with Board, $75, in advance. The same with History, Rhetoric, Natural, Moral, & intellectual philosophy, Astronomy, Chemistry, Natural History, Geometry, Algebra, and Latin, $85 per * session.
French, Drawing & Painting, $20 per session. Music on the Piano and Guitar, with the use of the instrument, $25 per session.
Books and stationary furnished at the store prices.
The privilege of attending the lectures of the Professors of Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry, will be granted to those who are sufficiently advanced to be benefitted by them. Landscape Painting and French, By Mr. Marey, a French gentleman, at $3 per month.
James Phillips,
Pro. Math. & Nat. Phil.
—Wilmington Advertiser, January 5, 1838.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
