Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-11-20

NufILS will be received into this Institution. de-
IL signed for the efficient and thorough education
CT young ladies' Monday the 7th 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 SIS $3.50
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 per annu,n, $3.50 90
Washing (if reqnired,) per session, II 90
Bedding, per session, 1- q. se-z eco
Pew Rent per session, - - @ l00
EXTRA CHARGES.
Dancing, $1,000
Painting oil, twenty lessons 500
e water color, twenty lessons, 500
- pastel, twenty lessons, 500
monochroI,atic, twenty lessons, 500
Ornamental leatherwork, twenty lessons, SEQ
Drawing Crayon. twenty lessons, 500
Pclcilins. per session, G 90
Nusic-lnstrumeItal, per session. 20 90,
Use of Piano for practicing, per session, 500
Stationery Senior Department. per session. 800
Junior Department per session, 200
The charge kE 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 taught in classes, and the lesson made
as interesting as possible one advantage of this sys
in the class docs not dcpc, the instruction they
may, or may not. receive at home. The course of
study in the Junior Department comprises Towns
Spelling; Mi.chelfs Outline Maps Grammar Child's
, History of the United States Study of Words ::
Scholars cempanion: Parley's Common School
History, Morses Biography Peterson's Familiar
Science First Lessons in Composition Quackcnbos
Outlines of English History Arithmetic; Writing
leading.
In. the Senior Department, large portion of the
met .f
and conversation The lessons are fully explained
aud abstract. prepared by the teacher is dictated
These dicti.ions written in blank book and
afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity
Of each pupils possessing textbook is obvated ;
and as each one prepares abstract weekly it cannot
h. objected, that they Will not learn to gcncraze for
themselves. There is also weekly class for the ex
tension q general information. and the discussiono 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 i'll every month the classes are
reviewed. Parents invited to visit the class
roonis on these days that they may tho manner
iii which the school is conducted, and Judge of the
improvement made.
1h1 pupils in the Senior Department have access to
q we'll chosen library. N
The course Of study in the Senior Department COM
pris,ss ScISlars Companion Trench ON Words {:
omellics Philosophy of Natural History; Goodrich
Geography and History, Ancient and Modern ;
/ Composition AMI rhetoric, Quackenbos Wayland' S
Moral Science Ma, khams History of England ;
Li"cota's Batany; Buttons Grammar Mrs. Phelps
Chemistry Shaw English Literature; Daries dige5ra
Huriitts Geography of the Heavens.
kamcs Elements OF Criticism !; Buffers Analogy ;
English, Past and Present, Trench Mental Philoso-
ply; Universal History; Cousin On the Good, the
keeping Putt aud Ainold's Medieval Geography
and History Sisinondis Literature of the South of
Europe; Composition
TGxr-Books IN FRENCH.
Jewetts Olendorif ltoemcr's Idion,s Dc Firas
Reader Chouauet's Dialogues; Historic dc France ;
lie Grandpc Literature Franchise Noel ct Chap
sails Grammar Picciola; Gengembrcs Method ;
Mabirc's Conversations.
The boarding pupils are not permitted to 60 out
unacconpanicd by a teacher, They take daily exer-
else in the open air and subjected to no restraints
other than those essential to well-rcguated family
Housekeeping is taught ii 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 testimonial is awarded TO excellence
Wednesday afternoons devoted to plain and
ornamental Needle-work, and every pupil is taught
to 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 srittea excuses from their
parents, for unprcpared lessons, arc 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 Nv
The terms for day pupils are, tuition in English
French, Latin, and Drawing. s25 per session, Junior
Department slo-payable in advance. Extra branches
as above "a
The Principal is permitted to refer to the following
scntlemcn:
The Hon. VIM L. Marcy, sec'y Of State. Washington.
Jefferson Davis, Sec'y of War;
g Judge Wayne, Snip. Court U. S. Savannah.
9. Seymour, Itchfeld.
s. p Beers, -sss s
George c. Woodruff, Esq,
Doct. Henry W. Buell.,
Henry R. Colt, ESQ,
Ltchfeld, June, 1856