Litchfield enquirer., 1856-08-21

Board and Tuition in English, French Latin Draw
 ing and Needle-work, per annum, S250 % Washing Gf requred,) per session, F co Bedding per session, co Pew Rent, per session. %
 EXTRA CHARGES.
 Dancing S12OO PaintinS-oil, twenty lessons, 500
 - water color, twenty lessons, 500
 pastel twenty lessons, 500
 monochromatic, twenty lessons, 800 Ornamental leather-work, twenty lessons, SO0 DrawlnS-Cryon, twenty lessons, 800
 '' Penciling, per session, 600 Music-1nstrumental, per session, 20 % Use of Piano for practicing per session. 500 Stationery, Senior Department per session, 300
 ' Junior Department, per session, 7 %
 The charge for Stationery includes pens ink paper pencils, and copy-books. Pupils not permitted to furnish their stationery
 The School is divided into two departments In the Junior Department, the instruction is chiefly oral The pupils are taught in classes and the lesson made. as interesting possible; advantage of this sys- tenn is, that all benefited alike and the standing in the class does not depend the instruction they may, or may not, receive at home The course of study in the Junior Department comprises Towns Spelling; Mitchell s Outline Maps; Grammar ehilds History of the United States: Study of Words Scholars Companion; Parleys Common School History Morses Geography Pctesons Familiar Science; First Lessons in Composition, Quackcnbos Outlines of English History; Arithmctic; Writing Reading.
 III tnc Stnior bcpartincnt, q large portion of the instruction given is in the form of familiar lectures anu conversation The lessons are fully explained and an abstract prepared by the teacher is dictated These dictations written in blank book and afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity of each pupils possessing textbook is obviated and as each prepares abstract weekly it cannot be objected that they will not learn to gcneize for themselves There is also weekly class for the ex- tension of general information and the discussion of the leading events of the day. Weekly Lectures hC delivered Astronomy. Literature, and the Fine Arts.
 on the first Friday in exsry month the classes are reviewed Parents arc inSitcd to visit the class roons on these days that they may see the manner in which the school is conducted, and judge of the improvement made.
 The pupils in the Senior Department have access to wel-choscn library.
 The course of study in the Senior Department con- priscs Scholars Companion Trench on Words :; sicllies Philosophy of Natural History Goodrich's Geography and History, Ancient and Modern :; Composition and Rhetoric, Quackcnbos Wayland's Moral Science; /; MMkhani's History of England :; L'i,eoias Bafaag; Buons Grammar Mrs l'hslps' Che"tisry Shaws English Literature; Dares Algebra Burritts Geography of the Heavens. Names Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy :: English, Past and Present. Trench Mental Phloso- phy; Universal History Cousin, on the Good the Beautiful, ainsl the True; Davies Geometry Book Keeping; Putz and Arnolds Medieval Geographv and History; Ssmondis Literature of the South of Europe; Composition
 TsNr@ Books IN FRENCH. Jewetts 0llcndorf; Roemer's Idioms De Fivas' Reader; Chouqnets Dialogues Historic de France :: Le Grant pcre: Litteraturc Francsc Noel ct Chap safs Grammar; Hc,iola; Gengcmhre's Method i; Mabircs Conversations
 The boarding pupils are not permitted to go out unaccompanied hy a teacher, They take daily exer- else in the open air and subjected to no restraints other than those essential to we'll regulated family Housekeeping is taught if desired
 Each pupil will supply herself with dressing case, work-box, toilet and table napkins and ring, silver fork and spoons umbrella and over.shoes
 Each article of Clothing is to be marked in full
 Every recitation is recorded, and quarterly report sent homc A testimonial is awarded to excellence
 Wednesday afternoons are devoted to plain and ornamental Needle-work, and every pupil is taught to sew neatly.
 French is the language of the School, and of the house. except at table, when English is spoken and cheerful conversation encouraged.
 Day pupils who bring rrinea excuses from their parents, for unprerased lessonsy arc allowed time during school hours for their preparation.
 In the Senior Derartnicnt. the pupils are required to study one hour and half at home and those in the Junior Department hut one hour -.
 The terms for day pupils are, tuition in English French Latin, and Drawing. S25 per session. Junior Department sl2-payablc in advance. Extra branches as above.
 The Principal is permitted to refer to the following gentlemen: -ssS s l Tho Hon. Wm. l., Marcy. Sec'y of state Washington. :. Jefferson Davis, Sec'y of War.
 :. Judgc Wayne, Snp Court. U. $ Savannah
 Q. s Seymour, Itch6c'd.
 ' q. S. ?. Beers, .se
 George c. Woodruff. Esq,
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