COURSE OF STUDY AND SCHOOL CLOSING IN 1819.
WARRENTON MALE ACADEMY.
The Examination of the Students of this Institution closed on the evening of the 13th inst. The different classes according to their respective studies were examined on Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, on the different parts of English Grammar, viz. Orthography, Etymology, Syntax and Prosody, with Etymological and Syntactical parsing; on Geography, Logarithms, Geometry and Trigonometry; on mensuration of heights and distances, of Areas and Solids; on Land Surveying and Navigation; and on Rhetoric. The classes in Latin were the Grammar, Fables, Casar, Virgil and Cicero; in Greek, the Testament and Graeca Minora.
At the close of the Examination a number of Young Gentlemen delivered select single speeches—many of them exhibiting a high degree of proficiency and perfection in this useful and ornamental part of Education.   *   *    *
The exercises of the Academy will he resumed on the first Monday in January next, under the superintendence of the present Principal, the Rev. C. A. Hill, A. M. who has presided over this Academy for nearly four years.    *    *    *
Nov. 25, 1819.                                          George Anderson, Sec'y.