Litchfield enquirer., 1857-01-08


 some definite arrangement is made to tha contrary before entering.
 Board and Tuition in English French, Latin, Draw ing, and Needle-work, per annum, S25O % Washing, If required per session, 1900 Bedding, per session, 200 Pew Rent, per session, 100 EXTRA CHARGES. Dancing, SIP % , Painting g-oil twenty lessons, 60 water color, twenty lessons, 800 pastel, twenty lessons, 500 monochromatic, twenty lessons, 500 Ornamental leather-work, twenty lessons 500 Drawlng-Cravon. twenty lessons, 800
 Penciling, per session, 6 co Music-1nstrumcntal, per session, 20 % Use of Piano for practcing per session. 500 stationery, Senior Department, per session, 3 % Junior Department, per session. 2GO
 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 dopartments Tn the Junior Department the instruction is chiefly oral The pupils are taught in classes and the lesson made as interesting as possible 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 home. The course of study in the Junior Department comprises Town $ Spelling; hitchells Outline Maps Grammar Child s History of the United States; Study of Words :; Scholars Companions Parleys Common School History Morses Geography Pctersons Familiar Science; First Lessons in Composition 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 fully explained hand abstract prepared by the teacher is dictated These dlctations are writton in blank book and afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity of each pupils possessing textbook is obviated and as each one prepares abstract weekly it cannot be objected, that they will not learn to gencraize for themselves. There is also weekly class for the ex tension of general information and the discussonsof 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 on these days, that they may see the manner in which the school is conducted and i,dqe of the improvement made.
 The pupils in the Senior Department have access to a wcl-chosen library.
 The course of study in the Senior Department com prises Scholars Companion Trench Words !; Smellics Philosophy of Natural History Goodrich Geography and History, Ancient and Modern: Composition and Rhetoric, Quackenbos Wavland's Moral Science; Markham's History of England :; Ltncolns Botany; Bullion's Grammar Mrs Phelps Chemistry Shaws English Literature; Dares AAgebra Burritts Geography of the Heavens kamcs Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy ; , English, Past and Present. Trench Mental Philoso- phy; Universal History Cousin, the Good the Beautiful, and the True; Davies Geometry Book Keeping Putz and Arnolds Medieval Geography and History; Sisnondi's Literature of the South of Europe Composition
 TExT-BooKs FRENCH. Jewetts Ollendorf; Roemer's Idioms De Fvas' Reader; Chouquets Dialogues Historic de France :: Le Grand-perc; Literature Francase Noel ct Chap sals Grammar; Picciola; Gengembre's Method :; Mabires Conversations
 The boarding pupils not permitted to go out unaccompanied by teacher, They take daily excr- else in the open air and subjected to no restraints other than those essential to wellreguated family Housekeeping is taught if desired Each pupil will supply herself with a 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 A 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 ,crtten excuses from their parents, for unprepared 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
 The terms for day pupils are. tuition in English. French atin, and Drawing. S25 per session, Junior Departm tts12-payable in advance Extra branches
 The Principal is permitted to refer to the following gentle en-
 The Hon. Wm. L. Marcy, Sec of State. Washington.
 Jefferson Davis, Scc'y of War,
 < Judge Wayne, Sup. Court. U. S. Savannah.
 O. s. Seymour Ltchfeld
 '' S. P. Beers
 George c. Woodruff, Esq, /"
 Doct. Henry W. Buell.
 Henry R. Colt, Esq, "
 Iitchfcld Junes 1856.