Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-12-18
. The Gould Seminary,
An English and French, boarding and Day
school TO Young Ladies.
LITCHFIELD, CONN.
@. II. HoILIsTER, Esq, paEsIDasr.
MISS S. HOGAN, PRINCIPAL.

MISS S. HOGAN, PRINCIPAL.
AssIsfASr TkAcalxRs,
MISS Fl. ]. STYLES. MISS s. "A. STYLES.
nUPIIS will be received into this Institution de-
u signed for the efficient aud thorough education
of young ladies' on Monday the 7th day Of July next
commencing on the first Wednesdays of November
and May next, each followed by d vacation Of four
weeks.
The number of boarding pupils viii be limited
none will be received for less than year. unless
some definite arrangement is made to the contrary
Board and Tuition in English, French, Latin, Draw
ing, and NecdIe-work, per annnm, $3.50 90
Washing, Of required. per session, zoe
Bedding, per session. 200
Pew Rent, per session, 100
Dancing. $500
Painting -oil, twenty lessons, 500
. water color, twenty lessons, 500
pastel. twenty lessons, 500
monochromatic, twenty lessons, 500
Ornamental leathcr-work, twenty lessons, 500
Drawing -crayon. twenty lessons 800
Penciling, per session, 500
Music-Instrnmcntal per session, 90 90,
Use Of Piano for practicing, per session, 500
Stationery, Senior Department, per session, 500
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
as interesting as possibe advantage Of this sys-
tenn is, that all are benefited alike, and the standing
In the class does not depend the instruction they
may, or may not, receive at homo. The course Of
study in the Junior Department comprises Towns
Spelling; Mitchell Outline Maps Grammar Child's
History Of the United States; Study Of Words
Scholars Companion; Parlcys Common School
History; Morses Geography; Pctersons Familiar
Science; First Lessons IN Composition, Quackenhos
Outlines Of English History; Arithmetic; Writing
Reading
In the Senior Department, large portion Of the
instruction given il in the form Of familiar lectures
and conversation The lessons are fully explained
md an abstract prepared by the teacher il Dictated
These dictations are written in blank book. and
afterwards committed to memory thus the nccessity
OF each pupils possessing a textbook is 0byiated
and each prepares abstract weekly Il cannot
he objected that they will not learn togeneralize for
themselves. There is also weekly class for the OK
tension of general information and the dscussonsof
the leading events of the day. Weekly Lectures
viii be delivered on Physiology. Philosophy History
Astronomy, Literature, and the Fine Arts.
On the first Friday in every month the classes arc
reviewed. Parents are 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
The pupils in the Senior Department have access to
well-choScn library. ~
The course of study in the Senior Department com
prises Scholars Companion; Trench on Words;
5mellics Philosophy OF Natural History Goodrich,s
Biography and History, Ancient and Modern
Composition and Rhetoric, Quackenbos Waylands
Moral Science; Markhams History of England;
Lincotn's Botany; Billions Grammar ; Mrs. Pheips'
Chemistry Shaws English Literature; Ddries' 1ge5ra
Bnrritt's Geography of the Heavens. #@
Kamcs Elements Of Criticism Buffers Analogy;
English, Past aud Present Trench Mental Philoso-
ply; Universal History Cousin, on the Good, the
Beautiful and the True: Davies Geometry; Book
D,,k- H.
and History; Sismondfs Literature Of the South OF
Europe; Composition. "
TExr-BooKs IN FRENCH
Jewett's Ollcndorf; Rocnlcr's Idioms De Fivas
Reader, cho'iqnets Dialogues Historic de France
LIE Grand pere; Literature Franchise Noel ct Chap
sails Grammar; Pcciola Gengcmbre's Me.hod
Mabirc's Conversations.
The boarding pupils not permitted to go out
unaccompanicd by teacher, They take daily excr-
sc in this open air. and subjected to restraints
other than those essential to wclI-rcgulated 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-sboes a
Each article Of Clothing is to be marked in fun
Every recitation is recorded, and quarterly report
sent home. testimonial isawardcd to excellence
ornamental Needle-work, aud every pupil 10 taught
to sew neatly,
French is the language Of the School, and Il IL
house except at table, when English Is spoken, and
cheerful conversation encouraged
Day pupils who bring xvasca excuses from their
parents, for unprcpared lessons me allowed time
during school hours for their preparation.
In the Senior Department, the pupils are required
70 study one hour and half at homo; and those in
the Junior Department but one hour.
The terms foraslay pupils are. tuition II English
French. Latin, and Drawing. s25 per session. Junior
Department. 81 payable inaivance. Extra branches
as above.
The Principal pcrmItscd to refer to the following
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