The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-07-24
The CANTON FnMALE ACADEMY,

Is now in successful operation under the SUI
perintendece of Mr.. Robert ANDERSON, as
Principal, and competent Assistants. Mr.
Anderson is graduate Of the South Carolina
College, and has been engaged in teaching
in this and the neighboring States for several
years past. He is q teacher by profession,
and by the arrangements made with him his
interest is intimately identified with the pros
perity of the institution over which he Presldes'
He comes recommended to us by gentlemen
Of high character and standing in this State, as
an accomplished scholar, q gentleman and a
misunderstanding 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 extravaganza, to
repress the love Of display, and the spirit of
rivalry in dress, the following uniform has been
prescribed:
For SPRING N SUMNER
Plain Blue Bingham Dress and sun-bonnet
Of the same, with white or brown linnen apron.
For FALL AND WINTER
Dress of Wooden or WOrsted Of any des.
%cription, 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
dancing or social parties.
The Trustees are gratifed in announcing,
: that with the means at their disposal, they will
be enabled, commencing with the next regular
session, to afford gratuitous Instruction. to all pu-
i, pills residents of this county, in the following
branches: Spelling, Reading, Writing and Arl-
thmetic. Either English Grammar or Geography
NAV be taught IN addition at So per session,
for each. Il is to be understood, however, that
if the pupil should be taught any other branch
es Of the higher classes, she will be charged at
the full rates Of that class. 1t has been deemed
expedient to adopt as a rule, that no pupil I'M
der the age Of six years shall be received for
' gratuitous instruction.
] The scholastic year consisting Of ten months,
) will be divided into two sessions OF hive months
each. commencing respectively Oh the first oil
October and March of every year. At the
J close Of the, Summer Session a public examl-
nation will be held, after which there will be
a vacation during the months Of August and
September. Pupils will be received at any
time, and will only be charged from the time
OF entrances; but after that no charge will be
s made for a less time than Session, unless in
case Of continued absence for more than {
month, on account Of sickness or death.
Canton is one of the healthiest places in TIL
South during the whole year; and for morality
I, intelligence and refinement, its citizens ma.
|, well compare with those Of any interior tow
) in the State.
, 1t is the aim of the Principal and Trustee
to build up and permanently establish an instl
tuition of the highest order-one which vii
afford gratultous instruction in the useful ant
solid branches of education, and at the SAM
j time, on moderate terms, all the advantages t
y be had any where else Of more thorough AM
extended course; thus sparing our people tn,
expense and sacrifice Of feeling incurred il
2 sending their children abroad. Situated as GU
$, Academy is, in the midst of a wealthy an
Ii intelligent population, at a healthy point, con
nected with all the principal places Of tn
State by stage and mail facilities, and con
Quoted by competent teachers, we see n
good reason why our most sanguine hope
:, should not be realized. We call on our fellow
citizens Of this and The neighboring counties t
give our Academy a fair trial, and if foun
3, deserving, to sustain an institution here .
home, where they can watch over the healtl
comfort and progress of their daughters durin
their course of education-pledging %ouIselvt
F, that no efforts shall be spared to render It wo
in thy of patronage.
w. R. HILL,
slr H. LATHAM,
JNO. T. CAMERON,
~ JAS, PRIESTLEY,