ACCOUNT OF FRANKLIN ACADEMY EXAMINATION, DECEMBER, 1806.

The Trustees of the Franklin Academy are happy in being able to announce to the Public the present flourishing situation of this institution, and the fair prospect of its rising to a much higher degree of eminence.

On Tuesday the 3rd inst. in the presence of the Trustees and many other spectators, the Students were examined in the English Grammar and Geography, in the Latin, Greek and French languages, and in Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Natural Philosophy. On Wednesday, the succeeding day, they delivered select Orations, Dissertations, and Dialogues and in the Evening exhibited a Comedy and Farce, for the benefit of the Academy.

At their examination the Students acquitted themselves with great applause. In all their performances they exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the Trustees. The whole was conducted with that order and regularity which characterize a well regulated institution.

At the close of the exercises, the sentiments of the Trustees were expressed by one of their number in the following address to the Students:

"YOUNG GENTLEMEN,
"I am requested, in behalf of the Trustees, to express their sentiments on your performances. We have great pleasure in declaring that they have given us much satisfaction, and equaled our fondest expectation.

"Some of you have particularly distinguished yourselves; all of you have performed your parts exceedingly well, and are entitled to our approbation. Your examination yesterday, and your exhibition today, have evinced on your part great assiduity, and on the part of your Principal, unwearied attention.

"We are happy to be informed that your conduct during the Session has been generally exceptionable, highly honorable to yourselves, pleasing to your Teachers, and peculiarly so to us. Pursue your studies with the same zeal and attention that you have hitherto manifested, and we can confidently predict that your exertions will be crowned with riches and honor.

“We now take our leave of you with an ardent wish for your future prosperity and happiness, of which your attention and application are a sure pledge."

The Trustees would inform the Public, that the Academy is still to continue under the direction of Mr. DICKINSON, as Principal. The price of Tuition for the ensuing year will be Ten Dollars for Beading, Writing, Arithmetic and English Grammar; and sixteen for the other branches of Education. In consequence of remissness in payments the present year, it is determined that future payments for Tuition shall be made to the Principal in advance
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William Lancaster,
George Tunstall,
William Green,
Richard Fenner,
Col. Jeremiah Perry,
Green Hill,
Jeremiah Perry,
Alexander Falconer,
Trustees present at the examination.
Dec 30.  
                                
—Halifax Journal, January 6, 1806.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)