The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-10-09
THE CANTON FEMALE ACADEMY,

TAE CANTON FEMALE ACADEMIC
Is now in successful operation under the SUI
~perintendece of Mr., RoBERr ANDERSON, as
Principal, and competent Assistants. Mr.,
Anderson is a graduate of the South Carolina
College, and has been engaged in teaching
in this and the neighboring States for several
years past, He is a teacher by profession,
and by tho arrangements made with him his
interest is intimately identified with the pros
perity Of the institution over which he presides.
He comes recommended to us by gentlemen
of high character and standing in this State, as
an accomplished scholar, a gentleman and u
notwithstanding with these qualities a
talent for maintaining discipline and a happy
faculty of imparting knowledge. Chemical
and Philosophical apparatus, Globes, Maps,
&c, will be provided.
The Academy building is spacious and COM
Portable, and besides the School Rooms, is in
tended for the residence Of the Principal and
his family, and the accommodation OF all the
boarding pupils whom parents and guardians
may wish to have placed under the immediate
charge of the Principal. 1t is located in a
pleasant and retired part Of the town, and in
the vicinity of respectable families, where
boarding can be had on reasonable terms.
With the view to prevent extravagancs, to
repress the love of display, and the spirit Of
rivalry in dress, the following uniform has been
prescribed:
For Spring AND SUMNER
Dress of plain Blue Bingham Calico, or any
other material of the same color not more ex-
p%ensive, and sun-bonnet of the same, with
white or brown linnen apron.
For FALL AND WINTER
Dress of Wooden or Worsted of any des.
of a solid green color, bonnet of the
same color, with linnen or brown Holland
apron, and thick soled shoes.
Pupils are strictly prohibited from attending
or social parties.
The Trustees are g~rntiied in announcing,
with the means at their disposal, they will
be enabled, commencing with the next regular
to afford gratuitous instruction to all pu-
residents of this county, in the following
Spelling, Reading, Writing and Ari-
hmetic. Either English Grammar or Geography
nay be taught In addition at So per session,
or each. II is to DO understood, however, that
{ the pupil should be taught any other branch
8 Of the higher classes, she will be charged at
he full rates of that class. 1t has been deemed
xpedient to adopt as a rule, that no pupil I'M
er the age of six years shall be received for
~ratuitons instruction.
The scholastic year consisting often months,
,ill be divided into two sessions Of five months
ach, commencing respectively OIL the first of
october and March Of every year. At the
Of the Summer Session a public exami-
alton will be held, after which there will be
vacation during the months of August and
eptember. Pupils will be received at any
and will only be charged from the time
entrance; but after that no charge will be
ade for a less time than a Session, unless in
lse Of continued absence for more than a
onth, on account OF sickness or death.
Canton is one of the healthiest places in the
,uth during the whole year; and for morality
telligence and refinement, its citizens may I
ell compare with those Of any interior town
the State.
1t is the aim Of the Principal and Trustees
build up and permanently establish an instl-
tion of the highest order-one which will
gratultous instruction in the useful and
lid branches Of education, and at the same l
ne, on moderate terms, all the advantages to
had any where else of a more thorough and
tended course; thus sparing our people the
:pense and sacrifice Of feeling incurred in
nding their children abroad. Situated as our
is, in the midst of a wealthy and =
population, at healthy point, con- y
,cted with all the principal places Of the
ate by stage and mail facilities, and con-
lcted by competent teachers, we see no
'od reason why our most sanguine hopes
ould not be realized. We call on our fellow
Of this and the neighboring counties to
We our Academy a fair trial, and if found
to sustain an institution here at
'me, where they can watch over the health,
and progress of their daughters during
cir course Of education-pledging ourselves
at no efforts shall be spared to rendor il wor-
y OF patronage.
w. R. HILL,
H. LATHAM,
JN0. T. CAMERON,
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