SPRING GROVE ACADEMY BEGINS, 1827.
SPRING GROVE ACADEMY.
THE undersigned has employed Mr. Guernsey, a Graduate of a Northern College, as a Teacher, to take charge of this Academy, for the ensuing year, and the School will commence on the first of January. Mr. Guernsey comes well recommended as a gentleman qualified to take charge of an Academy, and will teach the Greek, Latin and French Languages, and all other branches necessary to qualify a student to enter the University. The price of Tuition for Reading, Writing and Arithmetic will be $8, and for all other branches usually taught in Academies, $10 per session. And the undersigned will receive as Boarders, eight or ten scholars, at $40 the session. The residence of the undersigned is healthy, and is cut off from all temptations to dissipation, and where, from the assiduity and abilities of Mr. Guernsey, and the especial superintendence of the undersigned, such students as may attend the Academy, it is hoped and calculated, will make great progress in useful knowledge.
John D. Hawkins.
Franklin County, Dec. 12, 1827.
—Raleigh Register, December 28, 1827
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |