FINANCIAL TROUBLES ARRANGED, 1837.
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL.
Parents and Guardians are respectfully informed that, by a unanimous Resolution of the 'Special Convention/ assembled in this city on the 25th inst., the Episcopal School was relieved of its embarrassments, and put again in a state for successful operation—and that
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the following changes have been made to meet the changes of times and the expectations of the Public.
1. The price of Board and Tuition has been reduced from 200 to 150 dollars—which money, when paid into the Treasury, is to be kept separate, and applied exclusively to the support and instruction of the pupils.
Bedding and books will be furnished as usual by the School at a moderate charge.
No expense, of any kind, is to be incurred by a pupil, except by order of the Rector of the School. Notice is hereby given, that, in case any Merchant or Mechanic in the place shall credit a pupil without such order, the bill will NOT BE PAID.
2. Arrangements are made in the School for the most full and speedy preparation for entrance into any of our Colleges.
3. No boy, except he be a Communicant, will be permitted to enter the School after 14 years of age.
4. Day Scholars are hereafter excluded from the Institution.
5. The School will again open, under the efficient Superintendence of the Rev. MOSES A. CURTIS, with competent associate Teachers, on the 17th day of January next. Parents and Guardians desirous of placing boys in the School, will confer a favor upon the Board, by giving notice of the same to the Rev. GEO. W. FREEMAN, of this City at their earliest convenience.
By order of the Board of Trustees, L. S. Ives, Prest.
Raleigh, Nov. 28, 1837.
To be inserted for four weeks in the Star, Standard, Fayetteville Observer, Wilmington Advertiser, Newbern Spectator, Washington Whig, Edenton Gazette, Carolina Watchman and Western Carolinian.
—Raleigh Register, December 4, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
