ACADEMY PROSPECTUS—NEW TEACHERS, ETC.
The Trustees have now the satisfaction to state that this Institution has at length arisen to that high degree of respectability, and usefulness which has ever been expected to result from their exertions—the ability of the Teachers, the many advantages of its local situation, and the favor of a generous and enlightened Public.
The benefits expected from the zeal and talents of the Rev. Mr. Turner, Principal of the Institution, have been abundantly realized; and the increasing favour of the Public have enabled the Trustees to employ as Preceptress in the Female Department, Mrs. Bowen, of Fayetteville, a Lady eminently distinguished for correctness of manners, and a knowledge of Literature and the elegant Arts, and who has for many years procured for the Academy at Fayetteville, the merited reputation of being the best in the State for the Education of Young Ladies; and it is hoped and expected that her removal to Raleigh will not diminish her sphere of usefulness.
Mr. James Burch, of Virginia, has also been employed as Assistant Teacher. His moral character is unexceptionable—his attainments in Literature and Science are various and extensive, equal to the duties of his appointment, and worthy of his associate Teachers. Mr. Burch is already in the Academy—Mrs. Bowen will arrive on the first of April.
In the Male Department will be taught the Languages, Arts and Sciences, usually taught in the American Colleges and Academies. And in the Female Department, English Grammar, Geography, the use of the Globes, Needle Work, Painting, Embroidery, Belle Lettres, History, and the Rudiments of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. Terms of Tuition are three and four Dollars a quarter for the lower and middle Classes and five Dollars for the highest branches of the Sciences.
Board can be had in most of the Public Houses and in many genteel private Families at 60 Dollars a Year, Washing, Bedding and Firewood included.
The Year is divided into two Sessions. The first commences on the first day of January, and ends the Saturday immediately preceding the last Monday in May. The second Session begins on the first Monday in June, and ends the Saturday immediately preceding the third Monday in November, which is the day of the meeting of the General Assembly. Each Session is divided into two Quarters. At the end of each Session there is a public Examination and Exhibition of the Students, and at the end of each quarter a private one.
The Building of the Academy is spacious and convenient, situated near an excellent Spring, and in a part of the town wholly inhabited by private families. The superior healthiness of Raleigh is too well known to require being mentioned here. * * *
Signed by order and in behalf of the Board,
Raleigh, February 10, 1807. William White, Sec.
—Raleigh Register, February 16, 1807.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
