CHAPMAN'S CLASSICAL SCHOOL, 1828.
A CLASSICAL SCHOOL,
For both sexes, is now taught by the subscriber and a female assistant, at Centre Meeting House in Iredell county, 25 miles west of Salisbury, 22 north of Charlotte, and 18 south of Statesville. The place is remarkably healthy, and retired from the noise and bustle of the world. Youth may here be prepared for entering any of the classes of college, or they may be conducted through the whole course of a collegiate education.
Females will be taught the different branches of useful science, needlework, painting on velvet, and the French Language. The object of the Teachers in this Seminary will be not merely to exercise the memory, but to inform the judgment, improve the understanding and lead their pupils to a practical acquaintance with Science. Particular attention will be paid to the morals of youth, and the whole course conducted in the fear of God and with reference to the virtue of the Gospel.
The prices of tuition are $2.50 a quarter, for reading, writing, arithmetic; $3.75 for English Grammar and Geography; $5 for Mathematics, Painting, the higher branches of science and Latin, Greek and French languages. Boarding may be obtained in the family of the subscriber, and in reputable families in the neighborhood, at the moderate price of $1.50 a week, payable quarterly.
Mount Mourne, Feb. 4, 1828.                         Robert H. Chapman.
—Catawba Journal, February 12, 1828.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)