COURSE OF STUDY FOR GIRLS.
1. Julian Class.
Murray's Introduction; New Testament; Spelling, by rote; Writing; Dilworth's Arithmetic, including the Rule of Three.
2. Cornelian Class.
Murray's Reader; Historical Parts of the Old Testament; memorizing Murray's Grammar; Arithmetic, thro' Practice and Interest; Dwight's Geography; Etymological Parsing.
3. Decimore Class.
Murray's Sequel; Cowper's Task; Morse's Geography, with the Atlas; Geographical Cards; Use of the Globes; Syntactical Parsing, in Prose; the remainder of Arithmetic.
4. Trophomore Class.
Milton's Paradise Lost; Ossian's Poems; Syntactical Parsing, in Poetry; Murray's Exercises; English Prosody; Blair*s Lectures.
5. Alphenor Class.
Blair's Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, with illustrations from Ferguson's Natural Philosophy and Astronomy; Blair's Chymical Grammar; Whelpley's Historical Compend; Goldsmith's History of Rome, and History of England, abridged.
6. Delphenor Class.
Andrew's Logic; Moral Philosophy, by Witherspoon or Paley; Paley's Natural Theology.
Writing, and lessons in Spelling and Reading, shall be common to all the classes; English Composition in the four last.
Walker's Dictionary and Key are adopted as the standards of Orthography and Orthoepy in this Academy.
The Latin and French Languages will be taught when required. The preceding literary course will be attended to entirely by Male Teachers.
The Female Teacher who presides over this Department, and at all times superintends the morals and deportment of the Young Ladies, will also instruct such of her pupils as desire it, in Instrumental Music, Painting, Drawing, Tambouring, Embroidery, and all the various branches of plain and ornamental needlework.
* * * We are happy to observe that Female Education, hitherto so shamefully neglected amongst us, has of late become an object of very general attention. * * * But, whilst we rejoice to see our Institutions crowded with Young Ladies, we cannot but regret that so few have perseverance and resolution enough to submit to a literary course, sufficiently extensive, either to do credit to their Instructors, or to afford real and lasting advantage to themselves. * * *
That due encouragement may be given to Female Literature, it is hereby announced to the Public, that when any Young Lady shall submit to the regular course now adopted, and stand an approved Examination on the Studies belonging to the several classes, she shall, upon leaving the Academy, be entitled to its distinguishing honors, viz. An Honorary Certificate and a Golden Medal with an Elegant inscription.
January 20.
—Raleigh Register, January 24, 1811.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
