Litchfield enquirer., 1856-08-14
The Gould Seminary, An English and French, Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies.
 LITC CHFIELD, CONN
G. H. HOLLISTER, Esq, PRESIDENT. MISS s. HOGAN, PRINCIPAL.

MISS S. HOGAN, PRINCIPAL.
 ASSISTANT TEACHERS, MISS H. J. STYLES. MISS S. A. STYLES. EDUPILS will be received into this Institution, de- 1T signed for the efficient and thorough education of young ladies' on Monday the 7th day of July next
 The scholastic year is divided into two sessions commencing the first Wednesdays of November and May next, each followed by a vacation of four weeks.
 The number of boarding pupils will be limited none will be received for less than year. unless some definite arrangement is made to the contrary before entering. Board and Tuition in English, French, Latin Draw
 ing, and Needle-work, Der annum, S25O col Washing, (if required per session, 12OOl Bedding, per session, 200 Pew Rent, per session, 1OOI
 EXTRA CHARGES
 Dancing, SIP Painting-oil, twenty lessons, 500
 water color, twenty lessons, 500
 pastel, twenty lessons, 500
 monochromatic, twenty lessons, 800 Ornamental leather work twenty lessons, 500 Drawing-Crayon, twenty lessons, 800
 Pencing, per session, 600 Music-Instrumental per session, 20 % 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 copybooks. 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 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 Towns Spelling; Mitchell s Outline Maps Grammar; Chiids History of the United States Study of Words Scholars Companion; Parley's Common School History; Morse $ Geography Petcrson's Familiar Science First Lessons in Comp mposition, Quackenbos Outlines of English History; Arithmetic; Writing Reading.
 In the Senior Department, large portion of the instruction given is in the form of familiar lectures and conversation The lessons are fully explained and an abstract prepared by the teacher is dictated These dctations are written in blank book and afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity of each pupils possessing textbook is obviated and each one prepares abstract weekly it cannot bc objected that they will not learn to generaze 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 will be delivered on Physiology Philosophy History. Astronomy, Literature and the Fine Arts
 on the first Friday in every month the classes are reviewed. Parents invited to visit the class rooms 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 | a well-choscn. library.
 The course of study in the Senior Department conn., prises Scholars Companion Trench on Words /; Smellies Philosophy of Natural History: Goorich's Geography and History, Ancient and Modern ; Composition and Rhetoric, Quackenbos Wayland's Moral Science; AaIkhams History of England ; Liacola's Botany; Bullion's Grammar Mrs. Phelps Chemistry Shaw English Literature; Dales' Ak1ebra Burritts Geography of the Heavens. kames Elements of Criticism i; Buffers Analogy :; English, Pest and Present Trench Mental Philoso- 1 phy; Universal History Cousin on the Good the Beautiful and the True: Davies Geometry : Book Keeping; Putz and Arnolds Medieval Geography and History; Sismoudis Literature of the South of | Europe; Composition.
 l TExrBooxs IN FRENCH. Sewetts Ollendorff; Roemers Idioms De Fivas' Reader; Chouquets Dialogues Historic de France : le Grand-pere Litterature Franchise Noel ct Chap sais Grammari Hcoiola Gengembres Method : Mahire's Conversations.
 l The boarding pupils are not permitted to go out unaccompaniod by teacher They take daily excr- else in the open air. and subjected no 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 k-box, toilet and table napkins and ring silver fork and spoons. umbrella and over-s 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 are devoted to plain and ornamental Needie-work, and every pupil is taught l 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 wriaen excuses from their parents, for unprepared lessons, are allowed time during school hours for their preparation in the Senior Department, the pupils are required | to study one hour and half at home; aud those in the Junior Department but one hour.
 The terms for day pupils are, tuition in English French, Latin, and Drawing S25 per session. Junior department sl2-payable in advance. Extra branches