Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-12-25

weeks.
The number of boarding pupils will be limited !;
meme will be received for less than one year. unless
some definite arrangement is made to the contrary
before entering.
Board and Tuition in English, French Latin, Draw
ing, and Needle-work, per annum, $3.50 90
s ssshss pr ssssss per session. 'sS SS
Pew Rent, per session, 100
Extra CHARGES
Dancing, SIG 90
Painting oil, twenty lessons, 500
wator COLOR twenty lessons, 500
pastel, twenty lessons, 500
monochromatic, twenty lessons, 500
Ornamental ieather-work, twenty lessons, 500
Drawing -Cnyon, twenty lessons, SEQ
:. Penciling, per session, 600
Mnsic-lnstrumcntai, per session, 5000
Use of Piano for practicng, 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 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
as interesting as possible one 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 Child's
History of the United States Study of Words !.
Scholars Companion; parley's Common School
History; Morse's Geography /; peterson's familiar
Science Pirst Lessons in Composition, Quackcnbos:
Outlines Of English History; Arithmetic; Writing !;
Reading.
In tho Senior Department; large portion of the
Instruction givcn is in the form of familiar lectures
and conversation The lessons are fully cxplaired
gard an abstract prepared by the teacher Dictated
These dictations ere written in blank book and
afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity
of each pupils possessing textbook is obyated ;
and each one prepares abstract weekly it cannot
he objected that they will not learn to generaae for
themselves There is also weekly class for the ex,
tension OF general information and the discussionso
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 are invited to visit the class
rooms these days. that they may see the manner
ia which the school is conducted and Judge Of the
improvement made.
The pupils in the Senior Department have access to
well-ehosen library.
The course of study in the Senior Department COM
priscs Scholars Companion Trench on Words :
Smelle's Philosophy of Natural History Gooirich's
Geography and History, Ancient and Modern
Composition and Rhetoric, Quackenbos Wayand's
Moral Science; Mafkham's History of England J;
Iiaco,n's Botany Bullion's Grammar hrs Iihslps'
Chemistry Shaw English Literature; Diaries AigcJra
Burritts Geography Of the Heavens.
kames Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy :;
English Past and Present, Trench Mental Philoso
ply; Universal History Cousin, on the Good the
Beautiful, and the True Davies Geometry Book
Keeping; Putt and Arnolds Medieval Geography
and History Sismondis Literature of the South OF
Europe; Composition.
TExr-BooKs IN FRENCH.
Jewett's Ollendorff; Rocmers Idioms De Ffyas'
Reader, Chouquets Dialogues; Historic dc France
Le Grnrrdpere Literature Franchise Noel ct Chap
sails Grammar; Piccioia; Gengembre's Method
Mabire's Conversations.
The boarding pupils are not permitted to 60 out
Thev tax s1ai
else In the open air. and are subjected to restraints
other than those essential to wel-regulated family
Housekeeping is taught ii desired.
Each pupil will supply herself with dressing
case, workshop, 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 are devoted to plain and
ornamental Needle and every pupil b taught
to sew neatly. -
French is the language Of tine School, and Of The
house, except at table, when English b spoken, and
cheerful conversation encouraged.
Day pupils who bring rrinea 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 and 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 payable nadvancc. Extra branches
as above
The Principal permitted to refer to the following
gentlemen:
The Hon. VIM. l. Marcy. scc,y of State, Washington.
" :. Jefferson Davis, Scc'y of War,
:. 2 Judge Wayne, Snip. Court, U. S. Savannah
9. S Seymour, Ltchfeld.
George C. Woodruff Eeq., /"
Doct. Henry W. Buell., g
Henry r. Colt, ESQ.,, -
Ltchfeld, June, 1856.