Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-16
The Gould Seminary,

The Gould Seminary, An English and French, Boarding and Day
 School fo Young Ladies.
 LIT e HFIELD, CONN.
 G. H. HOLIISTElt. Esq, PRESIDENT
 MISS S. HOGAN. PRINCIPAL.
 ASSISTANT TEACHERS MISS H. J. STYLES. MISS S. A. STYLES EHUPIIS will bs received ints this Institution. de- -A- signed for the efficient and thorough education oi young ladies. on 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 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 Needie-Work, per annum, S2o0 % Washing. If required ger session. 12 % Bedding. per session, 200 Pew Rent, per session, co
 EXTRA CHARGEs Dancing, s12 co PAntinS-ol twenty lessons, 500
 :. water color, twenty lessons, 800
 pastel. twenty lessons. 800
 monochromatlc. twenty lessons, 500 Ornamental leather-work twenty lessons, 800 Dra"lng-Crayon. twenty lessons 800
 ; pcncilng, per session, 600 1luslc-lnstrunlental per session, 20 % Use Gt Piano for pIactcing. per session. 5OO Stationery, Senior Department. per session, co
 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 taught in classes and the lesson made as interesting possible; advantage of s Sys- ten 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 Outline Maps Grammar ChiIds History of the United States; Study of Words Scholars Companion; Parleys Common School History; MoTses Geography Pctersons Familiar Science: First Lessons in Composition Quackenbos Outlines of English History; Arithaetc Writing Reading.
 In the Senior Department a large portion of the instruction given is in the form of familiar lectures and conversation The lessons are fully explained and abstract, prepared by the teacher is dictated These dctations are written in blank book and afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity "f each pupil possessing textbook is obviated and as each one prepares abstract weekly it cannot be objected that they will not learn to eeneraiZe for themselves There is also a weekly class for the ex tension of general information and the discussion of the leading events of the day. Weekly Lectures will e delivered on Physiology, Philosophy History
 
 On the first Friday in every month the classes are reviewed. Parents invited to visit the class rooms these days that they may see the manner in which the school is conducted, and judge of the improvement male. The pupils in the Senior Department have access to 8 wcil-choScn library The course of study in the Senior Department com prses Scholars Companion Trench on Words Slaele's Philosophy of Natural History Goolrich's Geography ana History, Ancient and Modern Composition and Rhetoric, Quackenbos Wavland's Moral Science: MakLam's History of England LlnroIhS H@tn,Y; BulIons Grammar Mrs Phelps CAsmisty Shaws English Literature: Uur,es AIqeJra Buritt's Geography "f the IIcavcns
 Names Elements of Criticism: Buffers Analcor English. Past and Present, Trench Mental Phiits,- phy: Universal History Cousin. on the Good. the Beautiful, and the True; Davies Geometry Book Keeping Putz and Anolls Medieval Geography and History SiSmondis Literature of the South of Europe; Composition.
 TExr- Books N FRENCH
 Jewetts Ollendortf; Rocmcrs IioDs De Fivas' Reader; Chouquet's Dialogues Historic de France 1e Grand perc Literature Franchise Noel ct Cbap- sais Granlmr Piceiola; Gcngcmbres Method MLi,ire'S Conversations.
 The boarding pupils are not permitted to go out unacconp lnicd by teacher. They take daily excr- ciae in tho open r. and subjected to no restraints. other than those essential to wcll-rc.uatcd family House keeping is taught ii desired Each pupil will supply herself with a dressing case w"Tk-box toilet and table napkins and ring
 
 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 a.d ornamental Nccdlework. and every pupil is taught 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 wruten excuses from their parents. for unprcpared lessons are allowed time during school hours for their preparation In the Senior Department tine pupils arc required to study one hour and half at home aRd those in 1 the Junior Department but hour. The terms for day pupils are tuition in English l French, Latin, and Drawing. 25 per session Junior bepartm Itsl2-payable in advance. Extra branches above. The Principal is permitted to refer to the following gentle en-: The Hon. Wn. L. Marcy sec'y of State Washington '' :. Jefferson Davis. Sec'y of War; .' ' |" Judge Wayne. Sup Court t. $. Savannah ' Q. $. Seymour, Ltcltield.
 '' r. Beers, George c. Woodruff Esq, Doct H.nrv ". Bucl Henry oit Esq