ORATIONS IN LATIN AND GREEK, 1834.
Raleigh Academy.—The semi-annual examination of the pupils of this institution, at present under the government of Messrs. Johnson and Haywood, closed with exhibitions of public oratory by two divisions of students, composed of the first and second classes. Medals, indicating merit, were prepared, and were manfully contended for. With a view of showing the estimation in which "classical studies" are held by the conductors of the seminary, Orations in both the Latin & Greek Languages were delivered to crowded audiences, with a fluency, a strong retention of memory, a happiness of pronunciation, and propriety of gesture, not often witnessed at our most enlarged scholastic establishments.
—The Star, July 8, 1834
SCHOOL CLOSING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS, DECEMBER, 1834,
An examination of the Pupils in the Raleigh Academy will be held on Thursday and Friday, the 4th and 5th days of December.
Hours of examination from 9 o'clock A. M. to noon; and from 2 o'clock to 5 P. M.
Public Speaking by the Students on the evening of each day, commencing at 6 o'clock.
The Patrons of the School and others who take an interest in the thorough education of youth, are respectfully invited to attend.
The exercises of the Institution will be resumed on the first Monday of January next.
A prospectus exhibting the course of study pursued, may be had at any of the Bookstores in Raleigh, and when it is desired, will be forwarded to gentlemen at a distance. L. B. Johnson.
Raleigh, Dec. 2, 1834. Thos. B. Haywood.
FEMALE ACADEMY.
It is with peculiar pleasure, that the subscriber is permitted to announce to the former friends and patrons of MRS. HUTCHESON (formerly Miss NYE,) and to the public in general, that she is expected to open an Academy for young Ladies, in Raleigh, on or about the first Monday in January.
The proof which Mrs. H. has already given to the citizens of Raleigh of her superior moral and intellectual qualifications, as an Instructress of young Ladies, precludes the necessity of any labored encomium from us.
In justice to her, however, it should be stated, that her experience in the business of Instruction has been much enlarged in the interval of her absence from this city; and that she has recently gone to one of the first Female Seminaries in the United States, for the express purpose of still better qualifying herself for the employment she is about to resume among us.
It is scarcely necessary to say, that whatever measure of our own counsel and aid, in the government and instruction of her School, may seem to be needed, it shall at all times be promptly and cheerfully rendered; for we have resolved, as far as our efforts may contribute to that end, that the FEMALE DEPARTMENT of the RALEIGH ACADEMY shall not be surpassed by any in the country.
We are authorized to add that both the Male and Female Departments will be favored with the counsel, experience and general supervision of the Rev. Dr. McPHEETERS.
Nov. 24. L. B. Johnson.
—The Star, December 4, 1834.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
