FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY EXHIBITION, 1801.
FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY.
On Thursday Evening, ended the Exhibition of the Students of the Fayetteville Academy, preparatory to the Christmas Vacation. The Examination of this Seminary of useful Knowledge and elegant Arts, continued for three Days, before a respectable Audience, who expressed the highest Satisfaction of the Progress made by the Young Ladies and Gentlemen, which proves the Result of the Care of the Teachers of this Institution. The Number of the Young Gentlemen examined on this Occasion amounted to Sixty; that of the Young Ladies Classes to Fifty.
The Academy will be opened for the Reception of Students of both Sexes, as usual, after the Holidays, on Monday the 4th of January next.
Fayetteville, December 21, 1801.
—Raleigh Register, December 29, 1801
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |