JAMES GRANT REVIVES THE ACADEMY, 1831
JAMES GRANT, Jr., will open a school in the Raleigh Academy on the 1st Monday in January next. The plan of education is preparatory for an admission into any class in our Universities, comprising the Latin, Greek and French languages, Mathematics, Belles Lettres and a complete course of English Literature. The price of tuition will be the same as that heretofore chargd by the trustees of the Raleigh Academy, viz. for the first class 7 dollars and 50 cents; the second 10 dollars; the third 12 dollars and 50 cents; and the fourth 15 dollars per session, with fifty cents for contingencies and firewood, paid in advance. Board may be had in his father's family at 8 dollars per month. The public may rest assured that the strictest regard will be paid to the moral deportment of those confided to his care; morality and the truths of the Christian religion inculcated; yet it will be kept in mind that this is a literary, and not a theological school. He expects permanently to keep up the Academy, and to rely on his own exertions for patronage. It shall therefore be his pride and ambition to raise this Seminary to the elevated rank which it once possessed as a literary institution. There will be public examinations semi-annually, when parents and guardians may have an opportunity of witnessing the proficency which their children and wards may have made.
Satisfactory testimonials of his scholarship and morals, from the Professors of our University, are in his possession. Should any think these exist only on paper, let them try him. He would cheerfully instruct a class of young ladies in French, in the recess of the school.
Raleigh, December 15, 1830.
—The Star, December 16, 1830.
JAMES GRANTS TESTIMONIALS.
JAMES GRANT, Jr.
A Graduate of the University, Will open a School in the Raleigh Academy on the First Monday in January next. The price of tuition, discipline and course of instruction, will be the same as heretofore. It is believed that the healthiness and central situation of the Seat of Government will give the the institution advantages not surpassed by any other in the State. Mr. Grant, in the discharge of his duties as preceptor, is determined not to be deficient in perseverance and attention to the advancement and morals of those confided to his charge. To parents who wish their sons well educated and fully prepared for the University he respectfully submits the following testimonials of his qualifications:—he confidently hopes that they will entitle him to a liberal share of their patronage.
CERTIFICATES.
This certifies that Mr. James Grant, Jun. was a student in the University of North Carolina two years and a half, and that through the whole of that time his conduct was unexceptionally moral and regular. He entered the institution with approved examination on regular standing, and continued to prosecute his studies and to sustain all his public examinations with distinguished scholarship. He received a diploma of Batchelor of Arts, as evidence of his scientific attainments, in the opinion of the Faculty and the Senatus Academicus of the University. He has the advantage of some experience in the government and instruction of youth, by having been for sometime employed as the conductor of an Academy in the city of Raleigh. With a personal acquaintance with Mr. Grant's talents and qualifications, the subscriber has no hesitation in forming conclusively, an opinion that this gentleman will eminently grow and ultimately become distinguished as a lecturer on the Greek and Latin Languages. He is recommended to the confidence and kindness of all with whom he may be connected by Providence, in social intercourse or in the transaction of business.
(Signed) Jos. Caldwell, Pres't, dec.
University of N. C, June 1st, 1831
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Mr. James Grant, Jr. pursued the study of Rhetoric and History with me, as a member of the Junior Class in the University of North Carolina; and although these branches of learning are not such as require great ability to enable a person to prosecute them with a good degree of success, he gave evidence of such intellectual endowments as must confer the power of making rapid acquisition in any other department of knowledge. He is recommended to the confidence of such persons as may have occasion to transact business with him.
University of N. C. E. Mitchell, Prof &c.
June 2nd, 1831.
University of N. C. 1st June, 1831. I do hereby certify that Mr. James Grant, Jr. was a regular member of this College, and that in the mathematical department he was without a rival in a class which, for its literary and scientific attainments, was unusually distinguished. In the various branches which constitute the mathematical course at this institution, he uniformly exhibited such a clearness of comprehenson, such an accuracy in detail, and such a correct tact for investigation, as demonstrated the solidity of his acquirements; and I therefore unhesitatingly recommend him as a well qualified mathematical instructor. Jambs Phillips, Proff. of
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
June 2nd, 1831.
Mr. James Grant, Jr., was a member of the Senior Class in the University of North Carolina when he left the institution. He studied the French Language during the Sophomore and Junior year, and also during a part of the Senior year. Throughout the time spent by him in College he has been distinguished by industry and constant care and judgment in all his studies. In the French Language he made great proficiency. He may be said to have a minute knowledge of that branch, and was ranked among the very first in his class. The subscriber feels a great pleasure in recommending him as an excellent scholar and deserving public confidence as a teacher, in that branch which he teaches in the University of North Carolina.
Nov. 29. N. M. Hentz, Proff. Mod. Lang.
Chapel-Hill N. C. June 2d, 1831.
I hereby certify that Mr. James Grant, Jr. was, during his college course, under my tuition, in the Ancient languages, and was uniformly distinguished for his scholarship and unexceptional moral character.
W. Hooper, Proff. of Ancient Languages in the University of N. C.
—The Star, December 2, 1831.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
