FRANKLIN ACADEMY EXAMINATION IN 1805.
The semi-annual Examination of the Students of the Franklin Academy, will commence on Tuesday the 2d of July next, when the Trustees will attend to review the Merit and Scholarship of each Student.
On Wednesday, the succeeding day, the Young Gentlemen will deliver Orations selected for the occasion.
The whole to conclude by the Exhibition of a Comedy and Farce, for the Benefit of the Academy. The Performance will begin at half after 7 o'clock P. M.
By Order, G. Hill, Sec. of Board.
Lewisburg, June 12.
—From Raleigh Register, June 17, 1805
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |