MISS ELIZA W. BOBBITT PRINCIPAL.
WAKE FOREST
PLEASANT GROVE ACADEMY.
THE EXAMINATION of the Students of this Academy, will take place on Wednesday, the 12th of December next. Parents and Guardians are respectfully invited to attend.
The exercises of this Academy will be resumed on the first day of February next.
The Trustees have the pleasure of announcing to the Public that they have engaged Miss ELIZA W. BOBBITT, the present Instructress, to take charge of the Academy the ensuing year, a lady eminently qualified for the station. The Trustees therefore, have no hesitation in recommending the Institution to the public.
Terms of Tuition, for Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, $5. English Grammar and Geography, $6. History, Natural and Moral Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemistry, Mythology and Belles Lettres, $7½ per Session. Plain and Ornamental Needle Work taught in either or all of the classes, without extra charge. For instruction in Painting on paper and velvet, there will be an additional charge of $2 50 cts. per Session. Board can be had convenient to the Academy, at $5 per month.
Wake Forest, Nov. 22, 1832.
—The Register, Friday, November 28, 1832.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
