PRIVATE ACADEMY ANNOUNCEMENTS, 1820.
The Proprietors of this Institution, have the pleasure of informing their friends and the public; that they have removed the Female Department, to a situation nearly opposite to the dwelling house of Gen. Calvin Jones, Fayetteville Street, possessing all the advantages necessary for such an establishment.
They have employed a Lady whose talents and experience, they are satisfied, are such as will ensure the improvement of all submitted to her discretion.
The prices of Tuition will hereafter be reduced to, and regulated by those of the "Raleigh Academy."
Painting and embroidery, will however, be taught without a separate charge.
Raleigh, April 13, 1820.
—Raleigh Register, April 14, 1820.
PRAISE FOR THE PRIVATE ACADEMY, 1820.
Raleigh, June 8, 1820.
We the Subscribers, attended the late Examination of the Students of Messrs. Freeman and Hassam's Private Academy in this City, and feel it is due in justice to the Public, no less than to the talents and en-terprize of the Teachers, to give our unsolicited suffrages in favor of the Institution. We were particularly gratified in finding that the course of instruction and discipline was, in an eminent degree, an exercise of the thinking faculties; a fact, which deserves emphatic observation. The progress of the Students was, in our opinion, unusually great and their acquirements were in equal degree valuable.
Will. Polk,
John Y. Savage,
Jos. Ross,
B. S. King,
Bezaleel Gillet,
Jeremiah Battle,
Calvin Jones.
—Raleigh Register, June 9,1820.
RALEIGH PRIVATE ACADEMY ANNOUNCEMENTS, 1820.
Raleigh Private Academy.
THE subscriber, while he tenders his unfeigned acknowledgements for past favors begs leave to inform his patrons and the public generally, that the exercises of this seminary will commence on the 1st day of January next.
As the number of pupils will not justify the continuance of separate buildings for each sex he contemplates adopting the northern system of instructing the males and females in the same house. This regulation,with proper discipline, it is conceived, will not only be profitable to the scholar, but be rendered agreeable to parents.
One or two assistants, well qualified, will be employed to aid in teaching the following branches—viz: Reading, "Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography, English Composition, the Latin Language, History, Logic, Surveying and Trigonometry, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, together with the drawing and coloring of Maps.
An orrery, a Grammatical Key, and other suitable apparatus will be used to illustrate and enforce the principles of Astronomy, English Grammar, and the various branches of Natural Philosophy.
Terms, per session of five months, as follows—viz:
For Spelling, Reading, and committing English Grammar, $ 8.00
Geography, Writing, Parsing, Arithmetic, and committing Latin Grammar, 14.00
The above, with all or any of the higher branches, 16.00
(Payable in advance.) Pens, Ink and Writing Paper will be provided, if required for $ 1.50
Dec 15. J. H. Hassam.
—The Star, December 16,1820.
The Senior Class of Young Ladies will be accommodated with a room to themselves. December 29. J. H. Hassam.
—Raleigh, Register, December 29,1820.
For Rent, One of the most eligible stands for a Store on Fayetteville Street.
Also, a Plantation, 6 miles from the City, consisting of 150 acres of cleared land, with a good dwelling and out nouses. Enquire of
December 29. J. H. Hassam.
—Raleigh, Register, December 29,1820.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
