The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-07-17
THE CANTON FEMALH ACADEMY,

perintendece of Mr.. ROBERT 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 the arrangements made with him his
interest is intimately identified with the pros
perity of the institution over whichhe presides,
He comes recommended to us by gentlemen
of high character and standing in this State, as
an accomplished scholar, a gentleman and q
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 extravaganza, to
repress the love of display, and the spirit Of
rivalry in dress, the following uniform has been
prescribed:
For SPRiNG AND 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 instruct ion to all pu-
pills residents of this county, in the following
branches: Spelling, Reading, Writing and Ari-
thmetic. Either English Grammar or Biography
may be taught IN addition at SIS per session,
for each. II 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 un-
der the age of six years shall be received fol
gratuitous instruction.
The scholastic year consisting Of ten months
will be divided into two sessions of five months
each, commencing respectively on the first o.
October and March Of every year. AT the
close of the Summer Session a public exami'
nation will be held, after which there will be
a vacation during the months of August ant
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
made for a less time than a Session, unless il
lease of continued absence for more than {
month, on account of sickness or death.
Canton is one Of the healthiest places in tn,
' South during the whole year; and for morality
+. intelligence and refinement, its citizens ma,
/. we'll compare with those Of any interior FOWL
!, in the State.
1t is the aim of the Principal and Trustee
y to build up and permanently establish an inst
J tuition of the highest order-one which WI
afford aratuItous instruction in the useful an
4 solid branches of education, and at the sam
! time, on moderate terms, all the advantages Z
y be had any where else of a moro thorough'a an
extended course; thus sparlng our people tn
expense and sacrifice of feeling incurred /
sending their children abroad. Situated as on
Academy is, in the midst of a wealthy an
y intelligent population, at a healthy point, cor
nected with all the principal places of tn
State by stage and nail facilities, and col
Quoted by competent teachers, we see +
> good reason why our most sanguine hop,
Should not be realized. We call on our fello
citizens Of this and The neighboring counties
give our Academy a fair trial, and if four
deserving, to sustain an institution here
e home, where they can watch over the healt
comfort and progress of their daughters duril
"a their course Of education-plcdging %ourselv
- that no efforts shallb spared to render it VIC
thy of patronage.