FEMALE SEMINARY, 1835.
FEMALE SEMINARY,
Conducted by Mrs. Saffery,
In Greenville, N. C.
Who has adopted for her model, the justly esteemed and much celebrated system of Mrs. Willard, the Superior of an establishment for education at Troy; varying nevertheless in a few unimportant particulars: and while directing her attention to the fundamental studies, she will not leave the graces of Refinement disregarded. Mrs. Saffery having resided nine years in Paris, and its vicinity, can confidently assert, that under her tuition, the purest accentuation of French may be obtained, and also of Italian: that the cultivation of the Polite Arts, viz., Music, Dancing, and Drawing, will form a prominent feature in the school, and will each be taught in the highest perfection.

Terms.
Day Scholars:—For the introductory or first Class of English studies, $9 per term: including Reading, Orthography, Elements of Arithmetic, and Writing: should the pupil be old enough for the latter.
For second Class, $11—including, with the above, Arithmetic, Grammar, Writing, and Dictation.
For third Class, $14—including Geology, Geography, and History, with the above.
For fourth Class, $16—including, with the above, use of the Globes, Composition, Rhetoric, Logic, Geography of the Heavens, and Euclid's Geometry.

Extra Charges.
Piano Forte, $15—use of Piano, $3; Instruction on the Harp, $25— use of Harp, $5; Singing Lessons, $12; Music on the Guitar, $12— use of Guitar, $2; French, $10; Italian, $10; Latin Grammar, $6; Dancing, including Calisthentics, $12; Drawing, &c. $8—use of Patterns, $1 50; Lectures on various subjects, $3 per course.
As early tuition is absolutely necessary to attain a good pronunciation in French, young children will pay only five dollars per quarter, for instruction in that language: and as some parents object to the practice of Dancing, Mrs. Saffrey teaches for six dollars per quarter, a course of Calisthentics, calculated to promote a graceful carriage, a good walk, and a genteel address.
Books and Stationary furnished on reasonable terms; or, if parents prefer a stipulated sum, the charge will be $5 50, per term.
Half a quarter paid in advance; and interest charged where payments are not duly made.
Pupils are received but with an understanding, that they are to attend the Examination at the close of the term on which they enter, and to remain until it be closed; which will be at the completion of 22 weeks from the beginning of the Term.
The school year, exclusive of vacations, consists of 44 weeks; a Term of half the year, or 22 weeks; a quarter of one fourth, or 11 weeks.
The first Term commences the 3d Wednesday in September next, and continues 22 weeks; when after a vacation of two weeks, the second Term commences the first week in March, and continues 22 weeks, after which there is a vacation of six weeks.
References to the Trustees of the Greenville Seminary, Reading S. Blount, Esq. J. C. Gorham, M. D. G. Stokes, M. D.
Board may be had on moderate terms, in the most respectable families.
Greenville, Pitt Co. N. C. Feb. 14, 1835.
—Raleigh Register, April 28, 1835.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)