WHITAKER'S BOARDING SCHOOL, 1839.
BOARDING SCHOOL.
The Subscriber intends opening a Boarding School, for the reception of Males, on the 15th of July, near his residence, nine miles North west of Raleigh, in the neighborhood of Soapstone. The situation is healthy, and in the neighborhood of sober, industrious, and temperate people, remote from any place of vice or dissipation. The undersigned, (as he will be sole Proprietor and Instructor of this Institution) promises on his part faithfully to do everything in his power for the intellectual and moral improvement of all those that may be intrusted to his charge.
An easy, mild, parental, but a strict, firm, and prompt discipline will be kept over all classes; and no boy of disorderly conduct, will be received —or if received, will be suffered to remain after he is found to be incorrigible. Besides the different branches of an English education, the Latin and Greek Languages will be taught.
TUITION.—Five and Eight Dollars per session of five months.
The Subscriber will accommodate six or eight with board, at five dollars per month. Board can also be had in respectable houses in the neighborhood.
Any person who wishes to send a scholar, will please make it known by letter as early as possible.
Wake County, N. C, June 26, 1839. Stimson H. Whitaker.
—Raleigh Register, July 6, 1839.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
