M. A. CURTIS IN COMPLETE CONTROL, 1839.
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, RALEIGH.
The Subscriber has taken the buildings belonging to the Episcopal School, and proposes to continue the Institution upon his own responsibility. The next Session will commence on January 14, 1839. Pupils will be received at $75 per session of five months, which sum covers the expense of Board, Tuition, Washing, Mending, Fuel and Lights. As each boy has his separate bed, every boy at his first entrance incurs an additional expense of from $10 to $15 for bed and bedding.
The boarders will constitute a part of the Subscriber's family, and the attention and discipline will be as parental as circumstances permit.—They will be required to attend religious services on Sunday, and, when not otherwise directed by Parents and Guardians, will accompany the Rector of the School to the Episcopal Church.
Day Scholars will be admitted on the following terms:
Reading, Spelling and Writing, $12 00
English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography with the use of Globes and Algebra 16 00
Ancient Languages, and higher Mathematics, 20 00
Competent Assistants are engaged, and all the branches of learning taught in Academies and high Schools of the country will be taught here. French, Spanish and German will be taught, when desired by Parents, without additional expense. Students intending to enter College will be directed in their course of study with special reference to as speedy preparation as is consistent with thoroughness.
Persons intending to enter pupils, and desirous of further information, are requested to address the Subscriber.
Raleigh, December 6, 1838. M. A. Curtis.
—Raleigh Register, December 17, 1838.
NEW ADMINISTRATION, JUNE, 1839.
The Public are hereby informed that the School heretofore conducted by the Rev. M. A. CTJRTIS, in the Episcopal School buildings near Raleigh, will be continued under the joint supervision of the Subscribers. The Pupils will be prepared in the most expeditious and satisfactory manner to enter any Collegiate Institution, though with special reference to the course of Studies in our own University. The Session will consist of five months, at the following rates of tuition:
Classics, Mathematics and French, $20
Geography, Arithmetic and English Grammar, 15
Reading, Writing, &c. 12
English Composition and Declamation will also compose a part of the Exercises. The Session will commence on Monday the 17th inst.
John A. Backhouse,
Edwin Geer.
N. B. Pupils may board under the immediate superintendence of the Instructors, in a family occupying the centre building, at ten dollars per month.
June 1st, 1839.
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Raleigh Register, June 8, 1839.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
