ORDER OF EXAMINATION.
The first day from nine till one o'clock, the inferior classes of boys and girls (principally of the preparatory department) will be examined in Spelling, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. From two till five a class of Girls in English Grammar and Geography, with several classes of boys in the Latin, Greek, and French Languages. On the second day, from nine till one, a Mathematical class of boys, several classes of girls in Reading, Writing, Composition, English Grammar, Geography, &c, with a few classes of young men, advanced in the knowledge of the languages. From two till five in the evening, the first class of young ladies in the Academy on Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Composition, English Grammar, with Prosody, Punctuation, &c., Geography (with the use of the Globes,) Astronomy and History, to close with an examination of a class of young men in Natural and Moral Philosophy. The third day the examination will continue with the higher classes, both in the male and female departments, in the branches of education above mentioned. The whole to close with the inspection of the young ladies' Needle Work, Painting, Drawing, &c, with an examination of Mrs. Sambourne's pupils in Music and the ornamental branches of education.
The Students of the male department, on the evenings of the two first days, from six till nine, will deliver Orations, on the evening of the third, a Play will be exhibited by the Raleigh Thespians at the Theatre.
October 11. Wm. White, Sec'y.
—The Minerva, Raleigh, November 3, 1808.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
