PITTSBOROUGH ACADEMY UNDER WILLIAM BINGHAM.
PITTSBOROUGH ACADEMY.
The Semi-Annual .Examination of the students will commence on Tuesday the 1st of July next, and continue three days. * * *
Teems of Tuition (in Advance one Quarter at least) :
Eight Dollars per Annum for Beading, Writing and Arithmetic.
Thirteen Dollars per Annum for the Classics, English Grammar, Geography, the Mathematics, etc., etc.
Two Dollars Entrance for every new Scholar, unless the Parent or Guardian was a subscriber to the building of the Academy.
The Price of Board (including Washing, Lodging and Mending) for a Student in Town is fifty-two Dollars per Annum, and may be had cheaper, some small distance from Town.
Any Number can be very readily accommodated.
Wanted—A Person qualified to fill the place of second Teacher in the Academy, which will be vacant the 1st July next. The Qualifications necessary are a knowledge of the Classics, English Grammar, Arithmetic, to write a fair Hand, and if acquainted with some of the practical Branches of the Mathematics the more agreeable. Any further Particulars may be known by addressing a Line to the Rev. William Bingham or Mr. James Baker, Treasurer of the Academy.
June, 1800.
—Raleigh Register, June 10, 1800.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |