Litchfield enquirer., 1856-09-04


 Tho Gould Seminary, m RhglleA aaa frsnch. Boarding and Day
 school Tor Young Ladies.
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 O. H HOIIISTER, Esq. PEzapEsr
 MISS 5. HOGAN, PRIsCIPAL
 ASSISTANT TkAcHEm,
 MISS H. '. STYLES MISS g. 4. STYLE2
 signed for the efficient and thorough education Of young ladies' on Monday the 1th day of July next The scholastic year is divided into two sessions, commencing on the first Wednesdays of November and May next. each followed by vacation of four weeks.
 The number Of boarding pupils will be limited :: none win Do received for less than year, unless some definite arrangement is made to tho contrary before entering. Board and Tuition in English, French, Latin, Draw ing and Needle per annam, s250 co Washing If required. ) per session, F % Bedding. per session, 200 Pew Rent per session, co EXTRA CHARGES. Dancing, sla0O Painting-oil. twenty lessons, 500
 ' ss@ water color, twenty lessons, S00 s' pastel twenty lessons SG0 ts monochromatic twenty lessons, 8 00 Ornamental leather twenty lessons, 8 % Drawing -crayon, twenty lessons, s % Penciling, per session. 500 Music Instrumental, per session, 20 co Use Of Piano for practicing. per session. 500 Stationery, Senior Department per session, 800 Junior Department, per session, 200
 The charge for Stationery includes pens, ink paper pencils, and copy-books Pupils arc not permitted l to furnish their own stationery. The School is disilcd into two departments In the Junior Department the instruction is chiefly oral The pupils taught in classes, and the lesson made interesting possible advantage of this sys- tcm is, that all benefited aFe and the standing in the class does not depend on the instruction they may, or may not, receive at home. The course of study in the Junior Department comprises Town $ Spelling; Mitchell Outline Maps Grammar Childs History of the United States; Study of Words Scholars Companion P;srleys Common School History; Morse's Geography Petersons Familiar Science; First Lessons in Composition Quackenbos Outlines of English History; Arithmetic; Writing 1 Reading.
 In the Senior Department, a large portion of the instruction given is in the form of familiar lectures, and conversation The lessons fully explained, and abstract prepared by the teacher is dictated These dictations are written in blank book and afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity of each pupils possessing textbook is obyiatcd and each prepares abstract weekly it cannot be objected that they will not learn gcneralizc for themselves. There is also weekly class for the ex- tension cf general information and the discussion the leading events of the day. Weekly Lectures will be delivered on Physiology. Philosophy, History Astronomy, Literature, and the Fine Arts.
 On the first Friday in every month the classes arc reviewed, Parents invited to visit the class rooms these days, that they may the manner in which the school is conducted and judge of the improvement made
 The pupils in the Senior Department have access to l well-chosen library.
 The of study in the Senior Department com prises Scholars Companion Trench on Words Smellies Philosophy ot Natural History Goodich's Geography and History, Ancient and Modern Composition and Rhetoric, Quackenbos Wayiand' 1 Moral Science Markham's History of England Lincoln's Botany; Builion's Grammar; Mrs. Phelps CAenistsy Shaw $ English Literature; Darcs Alyeha Burritt's Geography of the Heavens. 1 Kames Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy English, Past and Present, Trench Mental Philoso l pay; Universal History Cousin, on the Good the l Beautiful and the True; Davies Geometry Book. l keepags Putz and Araolds Mcdiaeval Geography and History; Sismonlis Literature of the South o1 l Europe; Composition.
 TEXT-BooKs IN FRENCH. l Jewett's oiiendorff: Roemer's Idioms De Fvas 1 Reader; chouquets Dialogues Historic de France Le Grand pore Ltterature Franchise Noel ct Chap sal's Grammar; pictiola; Gengembrc's Method Mabire's Conversations.
 The boarding pupils arc not permitted to go out anacconpanied by teacher, They take daily exer- else in the open air and to restraints other than those essential to we'll regulated family Housekeeping is taught if desired 1 Each pupil will supply herself with a 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. testimonial is awarded to excellence, | "Wednesday afternoons arc devoted to plain and ornamental Needle-work, and every pupil is taugh, to sew neatly
 | French is the language of tho School and of the house, except at table, when English is spoken, and chcerfal conversation encouraged. l Day pupils who bring rratea excuses from thei, parents, for unprepared lessons. allowed tims during school hours for 1heir preparation. In the Senior Dcp4 6ent, the pupils are required to study one hour and da half at home and those in taa Junior Department but one hour The terms for day pupils are, tuition in English French, Latin and Drawing. S2s per session. Junior Department sl2-payablc in advance Extra branches as above.
 The Principal is permitted to refer to the following gentlemen The Hon. Wm. L. Marcy, secy of State Washington. '' Jefferson Davis Secy of War, .. Judge Wayne, Sup. Court, U. S. Savannah. ' o. $, Seymour. Litchfieid- 's S. F. Bcers,~
 Gaorge O Woodruff, Esq. Doct Henry ". Buell., Henry K Colt, Esq Ltohfield. June, 1856. EN F tAg a n n n N