The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-02-19
rae CANTON FEMALE ACADEMY,

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THE CANTON FEMALE ACADEMY,
is now in successful operation under the SUI
perintendence of Mr., JAMES F. GoULD, as
Principal, and competent Assistants. MIR.
Gould is a graduate Of Harvard University
and has been engaged in teaching for 25
years in the city Of Baltimore, and four or five
in Pendleton South Carolina. He is a teach
er bv profession, and by the arrangements
made with him his interest is intimately iden-
tilted with the prosperity of the institution
over which he presides. He comes recommen-
ded to us by gentlemen of high character and
standing in the city Of Baltimore, and also by
some of the most distinguished men Of South
Carolina, and among them the Hon. John G,
Calhoun, as an accomplished scholar, and a
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
! NAV 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
g 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
Dress of plain Blue Bingham Calico, or any
other material {. the same color not more eX'
~pensive, and sun-bonnet Of the sane, witt
white or brown Iinnon apron.
= For FALL AND WINTER -
- Dress of Woolen qr Worstcd Of any des
= criptlon, Of a solid green color, bonnet Of q
= same color, with linnen or brown HolIan
:" apron, and thick soled shoes.
~ Pupils are strictly prohibited from attendin
oe dancing or social parties.
1T, The Trustees are gratiied in announcing
that with the means at their disposal, they WI
80 be enabled, commencing with the next regult
session, to afford gratultDus all P
&c pills residents Of this county, IN the loliowlh
branches: Spelling, Reading, Writing ana Al
n thmetic. Either English Gralnmaror Geograph
D. NAV he TAUGHT IN addition at So per sessio
lie Far each. Ills to be understood, however, In
nd If the pupil should be taught any other branc
be % Of The higher classes, she will be charged
-. the f~ullrates of that class. 1t has been deem
~ G. oedient to adopt as a rule, that no pupil u
or der the are Of six years shall be received /
aid gratuitous instruction !,
The scholastic year consisting OF ten mont
10 will be divided into two sessions OF hVe mohl
each, commencing respectively on toe hfst
/. October and March of every year. At
20 close of the Summer Session a public eXar
nation will be held, after which there VIII
n vacation during the months OF August a
~ September, Pupils will be received al q
time, and will only be charged from the III
OF entrance; but after that no charge wall
mads for a less time than a Session, unless
case Of continued abaence. Tor more thah
month, on account Of sickness or deatiI'
.lo3ani IA one vi the hcnithiest places in
a,ntb durinr t1a whole venr; and for moral
luF{ ;nta1ltgapcp AID refinement, its citizens II
4rm we'll combare with those Of any Interior to
in the State.
1t is the aim Of the Principal and Trust
to build up and permanently establish an IN
Can. tuition of the highest order-one which
,ba afford qratuItous instruction in the useful
'"0 solid branches Of education, and at the So
III a lime. on moderate terms, all the advantage
aser be had any where else of amoro thorough
The extended course; thus sparing our people,
,hlo expense and sacrifice of feeling incurred
wy sending their children abroad, Situated as
nds' Acadeiny is, in the midst of a wealthy
sary intelligent population, at a healthy point,
west nected with all the principal! places OF
he State by stage and mail facilities, and
Quoted by competent teachers we see
r OF GOOD reason why our most sangulne n
east should not be realized. We call on our re
east citizens Of this andlhe neighboring count
SOC. rive our Academy a fair trial, and II l'
Noo deserving, to sustainlan institution h,er
lnge home, where they can watch over the ne
IadI- comfort and progress Of their daughters dt
their course Of education-pllodglng ours
that no efforts shah be spared to render II
Gerry. ''5 VI w. r. HILL,