The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-08-21
TRE CANTON FEMALE ACADEMY,

Is now in successful operation under the SUI
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
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 a
notwithstanding with these qualities a
talent for maintaining discipline aD6 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
NAV wish TO have placed under the immediate
charge Of the Principal. It 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-bonnot
Of Rhe 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 Iinnen 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 nextregular
session, to afford gratuitous instruc tlont to all pn-
pills residents of this county, in the following
branches: Spelling, Reading, Writing and Arr
IHUletlCt GlLll6l GiuBlISH dNhhN - NS'B'Nf"
NAV be taught In addition at So per session.,
for each. Ills 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 for
gratuitous instruction.
The scholastic year consisting Of ten months,
will be divided into two sessions OF hive months
each, commencing respectively OH the hrst OF
October and March Of every year. At the
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
made for a less time than a Session, unless III
case Of continued absence for more than a
month, on account Of sickness or death.
Canton is one of the healthiest places in the
South during the whole year; and for morality,
Intelligence and refinement, its citizens may
we'll compare with those of any interior town
n the State.
1t is the aim of the Principal and Trustees
build up and permanently establish an instl-
.ution of the highest order-one which will
gratultous instruction in the useful and
iolid branches Of education, and at the same
ime, on moderate terms, all the advantages to
,e had any where else Of a more thorough and
extended course; thus sparing our people the
expense and sacrifice Of feeling incurred in
their children abroad. Situated as our
academy is, in the midst of a wealthy and
intelligent population, at a healthy point, con-
iected with oil the principal places Of the
State by stage and mail facilities, and con-
lucted by competent teachers, we see no
good reason why our most sangulne hopes
should not be realized. We call on our fellow
,~itizens Of this and the ~neighboring counties to
give our Academy a fair trial, and if found
to sustain an institution here at
nome, where they can watch over the health,
and progress of their daughters during
their course of oducation-pledging ourselves
no efforts shall be spared to render it wor-
Of patronage.
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