BERKELEY'S LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION, 1831.
Literary and Scientific Institution For Young Ladies, Under the Superintendence of Mr. & Mrs. Berkeley, At the East Corner of Mrs. Jehu Scott's Lot, near the Episcopal Church.
THE SCHOOL is divided into three Departments: the Introductory, the Junior, and the Senior.
The Course of Instruction, will embrace in THE INTBODUCTOBY DEPABTMENT, spelling, Beading, Writing, Elementary Arithmetic, Linear Drawing, and Plain Sewing.
Terms, 7.50 per Session.
The Junior.
The former Exercises continued, with Grammar, Geography, Political, History, and Ornamental Needle-work.
Terms, $12.50 per Session.
The Senior. Composition in the English Language, Stenography, Geometry and Trigonometry (as applicable to the measurements of heights and distances) Algebra, Painting on Velvet, and a short course of useful Lectures on Natural Philosophy, Natural History, Comparative Anatomy, Chemistry, Botany, and Mineralogy, with practical illustrations.
Terms, $15.50 per Session.
The duties of a Teacher are of three kinds: to assist children to acquire thoughts: to teach them to communicate those acquired thoughts to others, verbally and in writing; and to aid parents in the formation of the disposition, habits and moral character of their children. These duties Mr. and Mrs. B. will endeavor faithfully to discharge towards all those who may be entrusted to their care.
Raleigh, Jan. 19, 1831.
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Raleigh Register, January 27, 1831.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) 
