Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-10-22
SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE.
r COUNTY, MO.

PERRY COUNTY, MO.
The Directors Of this Institution have
made additions 10 the building, which will
greatly contribute TO the convenience and
advantage Of the pupils. Since tho year
1922, when tho Institution was iIcorpo.
rated). continual exertions have been made
TO increase IFS utility. The advantages of
n most healthy situation, and Of secluslon,
in a neighborhood where there cannot be
the contagion Of bad example, were the
great motives which induced It's first foun-
ders TO select its present location. Actu-
| ated by tho same motives, the Directors
continue 10 take a parental interest in the
health other pupils: abundant and whole.
some diet, the succession Of the classes IN
a pleasing variety, with the regular inter
]vention OF recreations and innocent diver
sions, arc the mea ms which heretofore have
made, and, II is hoped, will continue TO
make this establishment one Of the most
healthy in the country. The same watch
ful care is extended to the morals Of the
pupils, TO strengthen and perfect them in
the principles Of Christian morality !;
whilst tho teachers and directors scrnpn.
lousy refrain from interference with the
religious opinions of the youth committed
toetheir charge, unless the parents express
Iy request such interference. y
The college is situated ten miles from the
river Mississippi, in the most healthy portion
of the State. The places Of landing are, st.
| Mary's Landing, Pratte's Landing, Vital's
Landing, each ten miles from the college.
The course Of instruction will, as hereto
fore, embrace a complete mercantile and clas-
steal education, either united or separated at
the option OF the parents or guardians.
The SYSTEM OF EDUCATION EMBRACES -
Reading, writing, grammar, history, rhetoric,
poetry, mythology, geography, the use of the
globes, book -keeping, arithmetic, algebra, ge-
omefry, plane and spherical trigonometry,
mensuratjon, surveying, theoretical and prac-
teal astronomy; the French, Spanish. Ger
man and Italian languages the Latin and
Greek mora and natural philosophy, botany
and chemistry; music and drawing.
The college is supplied with a chemical la
b%oratory and With a complete philososhicalap-
paratus.
The Professors of the English, French,
Spanish, German and Italian languages, are
gentlemen TO whom The language each teach
es is his other ton~ue.
The scholastic year commences on the first
Monday in October and finishes on the last
Thursday in August, on which latter day the
annual commencement is held, premiums are
distributed to the meritorious and degrees are
conferred.
The term for boarding lodging, tuition,
washing and mending, and DOCTORS fees are
$3.50 per annum, payable half yearly in ad-
vance. An extra charge of $40 win be made
for those who study Spanish, German and
Italian the same extra charge for the study
of natural philosophy and chemistry, TO pay
for the breakage Of apparatus, &c. An extra
charge OF SS per annum will be made for bed
and bedding, if furnished by the college.
Music and drawing are extra charges.
If parents desire their children to he clothed
at the Institution, it will be necessary to place
a sufficient sum in the hands of the treasurer,
Rev. John M. Robert.
Semi-annual bulletins, informing of the
health and progress Of the pupils, will be for
to parents and guardians. These who
may send from foreign countries or remote
will please to appoint a responsible
agent at New Orleans or S.. Louis.
Oct 90 81 1t H. FIGARL, President.