COURSE OF STUDY, 1832.
RALEIGH FEMALE SEMINARY.
The Subscriber, aided by a Board of Visitors, proposes to establish in the City of Raleigh a Seminary for Young Ladies.
Arrangements have been made for procuring, as soon as practicable, a well-qualified Preceptress, who will be assisted from time to time, by other competent Instructors, as the exigencies of the Institution may require.
The course of Instruction will embrace all the useful and ornamental Branches usually taught in the most approved Female Academies.
The year will be divided into two Sessions of five months each. The first Session will commence on the 2d Monday of January next.
The terms of Tuition, per Session, payable in advance, will be according to the grade of studies, as follows:
First Class, $8.50.
Spelling — Reading — Copy Writing — Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic — First Catechism — and committing to memory the English Grammar.
Second Class, $12.50.
Grammar Recitations — Etymological Parsing — Syntactical Parsing in Prose and Poetry — Arithmetic throughout — Geography, Ancient and Modern — Use of the Globes — Construction of Maps — Punctuation — Letter writing — and plain Sewing.
Third Class, $15.50.
Elements of Geometry — Rhetoric — History — Natural and Moral Philosophy — Astronomy — Chronology — Logic — Chemistry — Composition — Ornamental Needlework, &c. &c.
For instruction in Drawing — Painting — and Instrumental Music, the charges will be extra.
The government of the School, as far as practicable, will partake of the parental character; but while a harshness and severity are avoided, every prudent means will be adopted to promote strict order, amiable behaviour, and commendable industry. The constant aim of the Instructors will be to render their pupils contented and happy, and to return them to their Parents and Guardians improved in manners,— well taught and virtuous.
Boarding will be furnished at the customary prices.
A portion of public patronage is respectfully solicited.
December 6, 1832. W. M’Pheters, Superintendent.
—Raleigh Register, December 14, 1832.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
