FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY ADOPTS LANCASTER PLAN.
FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY.
The trustees of this institution, with pleasure announce, that their hopes are again revived, by the appointment of the Rev. J. A. Turner, as prinicpal thereof. They have also employed Miss Bosworth, late of the Raleigh Academy, to superintend the Female Department.    *    *    *
The trustees have long looked with a favorable eye, on those obvious improvements in the art of school teaching, which were first brought into operation by Mr. Joseph Lancaster, of Great Britain, the beneficial effects of which have already been felt and acknowledged by a great majority of the large towns in the United States. They have therefore, only waited for a favorable opportunity to introduce this system in all its improvements into the institution under their care. This time, they are happy to say, has at last arrived. They did, therefore, at one of their late meetings, pass an order that the preparatory school attached to the academy, shall hereafter be conducted on this improved plan. Those acquainted with this mode of teaching, nothing need be said in commendation of it—those not acquainted with it, are hereby confidently assured, that in the opinion of all who have had a fair opportunity of judging, no plan has ever before been introduced into our schools combining so many advantages, both in regard to cheapness and the facility with which children acquire a knowledge of the most necessary branches of an English education. The members of this school, having been suitably prepared, shall (if desired) be advanced to other rooms, in which will be taught Arithmetic and English Grammar more perfectly, Geography, Astronomy, Belles Lettres, Natural and Moral Philosophy, the Elements of Chemistry, the various branches of the Mathematics, the Latin and Greek Languages, etc.   *    *    *
P. J. TlLLINGHAST, JUN. Sec.
Fayetteville, December 14, 1814.

—Raleigh Star, January 6, 1815.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)