ADDITIONS TO THE COURSE OF STUDY.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION
For Young Ladies.
In addition to the Studies before advertised, Mr. Berkeley will give instruction in the French Language. The Class will commence on Monday the 11th of April next, at an hour that will not interfere with the regular studies of the School.
By the System he pursues, the dull drudgery of committing columns of French verbs to memory, without perceiving any application of them, is avoided—and the pupils learn to write, read and speak good French from the commencement.
As this System of Instruction cannot be understood by the advertisement, Parents and others interested are invited to visit the School any day, and at any hour that may be most convenient. The Lectures on the Natural Sciences are given in the morning. Those on Mineralogy, are illustrated by specimens from a small but well selected Cabinet; those on Botany, by collections of flowers from the fields and gardens; those on Animal Physiology, by comparative demonstrations and well executed engravings; and those on Chemistry, by the best apparatus the incipient state of the Institution will afford.
The leading object of this course of Studies, in addition to the usual Branches taught in Schools, is to extend to females a general knowledge of those useful Sciences, which hitherto have been almost exclusively monopolized by males, and confined to our Colleges and Universities.
Ealeigh, March 29, 1831.
—Raleigh Register, March 31, 1831.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
