FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY FOR 1811.
FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY.
The Examination of the Students of this Academy closed on the 20th instant. The Trustees with pleasure announce to the public the gratification which this display of the proficiency of the Students, in those branches of education in which they have been instructed during the last session, afforded them.
The Students of the Male Department, in the Greek & Latin Languages and other important studies, (a few excepted) discovered an accurate knowledge of the authors they had read, and an aptitude and promptness in the application of Grammar not often witnessed. The pupils in the inferior classes, in English Grammar, Reading, &c. gave pleasure to the parents and Trustees, and did honor to themselves.
In the Female Department, in Astronomy, in History, and Geography; in Grammar, Reading, Writing &c. the young Ladies evinced in the course of their examination the assiduity and success with which they had devoted themselves to their studies.
Every exertion has been made by the Trustees of this Seminary to render it eminently respectable, and extensively useful. The Rev. William L. Turner will continue to preside over the Institution, assisted by Messrs. John E. Gunning and Colin M'Iver, whose talents are known and approved.
Mrs. Frances Bowen will superintend immediately the Female Department. The success with which Mrs. Bowen has for many years taught, and the celebrity which she has acquired both as preceptress and Governess, will hold out inducements to parents to confide their daughters to her care. Mrs. B. will be assisted by Dr. James Bogle, late Principal of the Louisburg Academy, whose experience and former success promise much.
The local situation of Fayetteville, the regular and firm basis upon which the Institution rests, and the capacity and the reputation of the several preceptors, will, it is presumed, insure to the Academy a liberal support. It is worthy of remark that there has been during the whole of the present year only two or three instances of indisposition, and those but slight, among the Students.
The price of Tuition per quarter is from two and a half to six dollars. Board may be had in the most respectable families for eighteen or twenty-one dollars per quarter.
The exercises of the Academy will commence on the first of January next.