Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-12-04

Bedding, per session, 200
Pew Rent, per session, 90
Dancing s1s 90
Painting--oil, twenty lessons, 500
:" water color, twenty lessons, 500
pastel, twenty lessons 500
monochromatic, twenty lessons, 500
Ornamental leather work, twenty lessons, 500
Drawing-Crayon twenty lessons, 500
Penciling, per session, s OO
Musc-1nstrumental, per session, 20 90
Use of Piano for practicing, per session, 500
Stationery Senior Department per session, s 90
Junior Department, per session, 600
The charge for Stationery includes pens, ink paper
pencils and copy-books Pupils are not permitted
to furnish their own 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
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 Town S
Spelling; Mitchells Outline Maps Grammar Child S
History of the United States; Study of Words ;
Scholars Companion Parleys Common School
History; Morse's Geography Petersons Familiar
Science First Lessons in Composition Quackenbos
Outlines of English History; Arithmetic; Writing
keadiug.
In the Senior Department, large portion of the
instruction given is in the form of familiar lectures
and conversation The lessons are fully explained
ud abstract, prepared by the teacher is dictated
These dictatons are written in blank book and
afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity
ui aaah pupils possessing textbook is obviated
and as ~ch prepares abstract weekly it cannot
be objected that they will not learn to generalize for
themselves. 1iere is also weekly class for the OK
tension of general Information, and the dscussionof
the leading events of ire day. Weekly Lectures
will be delivered on Physiology Philosophy, History
Astronomy, Literature, and the Fine Arts.
On the first FRIDAY month the classes are
reviewed. Parents are invited to visit the class
rooms on these days, that they may see the manne.
in which the school is conducted and judge of the
improvement made
The pupis in the Senior Department have access ia
a well-chosen library.
The course of study in the Senior Department com
priscs Scholars Companion Trench Words
Smellies Philosophy of Natural History Goodrich's
Composition and Rhetoric Quackenbos Wayland'
Moral Science Markham's History of England
Lincoln's Botany; Billions GRAMMAR Mrs. Phelps
Chemistry Shaw English Literature Daries Algebra
Burritts Geography of the Heavens.
| kames Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy
English Past and Present, Trench Mental Phoso-
ply Universal History Cousin, on the Good the
Beautiful and the True; Davies Geometry Book
Keeping Putt and Arnods Medieval Geography
and History Sismondis Literature of the South of
Europe; Composition
| Textbook IN FRENCH
| Jewett's Ollendorff Roemcrs Idion,s De Fivas'
Reader Chouquet's Dialogues; Historic de France
LIE Grand pere Literature Franchise Noel ct Chap
sails Grammar; Picoiola; Gepgembre's Method
Mabire's Conversations.
The boarding pupils arc not permitted to go out
unaccompanied by a teacher, They take daily excr-
else in the open air. and are subjected to restraints
other than those essential to we'll regulatcd 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 home. A testimonial is awarded to excellence
| Wednesday afternoons 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 rrsuen excuses from their
parents, fof unprepared lessons, allowed time
during school hours for their preparation.
| In the Senior Department. the pupils required
to study one hour and half at home; and those in
the Junior Department but one hour
The terms for day pupils are, tuition in English,
French Latin, and Drawing. SIS per session. Junior
Department Sl2-payable in advance Extra branches
as above.
The Principal is permitted to refer to the following
| gentlemen
The Hon. VIM. L. Marcy, Sec'y of State Washington.
IS Jefferson Davis, Sccy of War, -
I" Judge Wayne, Sup, Court. U. S. Savannah
d 0. $. Seymour, Itchheld.
50 s. P. Beers, +"
George C. Woodruff Esq,
Doct. Henry W. Buell.,
! Horny R. Colt Esq,
/ Ltehheld, June, 1856.