RALEIGH ACADEMY HAS A NEW PRINCIPAL.
The undersigned, School Committee, take pleasure in announcing to the public, that Mr. ROBERT G. ALLISON, the gentleman engaged to take charge of the Male Department of this Institution, has entered upon the duties of his station. —The first session commences today, and will continue, without intermission, until the 20th of June; when there will be a public examination and a short vacation.
The varous branches of a Classical, as well as common English Education, will be taught; and, as it is intended to prepare the student for College, and for business relations of life, the course of studies and method of teaching will be such as to ensure an education as thorough and extensive as can be obtained in any of the best seminaries in the country.
The terms of tuition will be the same as heretofore. The time embraced in the present session, will be equal to a session and a half, and the charge will be made accordingly.
It is the intention of the Trustees, by the present arrangement, to establish a system of instruction and discipline in the Baleigh Academy, by which the institution will be placed on a basis of more permanent and extensive utility, and rendered worthy of the patronage of the State at large; and the committee confidently believe that this object will be accomplished under the management and labors of the able Instructor who has been placed at its head. He is a graduate of our University, has had several years experience in teaching, and is furnished with the most satisfactory testimonials both of his exemplary moral character And eminent qualifications and skill as a teacher.
S. F. Patterson,
Thos. Cobbs,
S. BlRDSALL,
B. B. Smith,
Thos. J. Lemay,
Committee.
Oct. 25, 1836.
—Register, November 15, 1836.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
