Litchfield enquirer., 1857-01-22

Use ct Plano for practlclng, per session, . % stationery, Senior Department, per session, 5 co Junior Department, per session, % 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 Tine pupils taught in classes and the lesson made as interesting possible one advantage of this svs- tenn s that all are benefited alike and the standing in the class docs not depend the instruction they may, or may not, receive at home The course of study in the Junior Department comprises Town S Spelling; Mitchells Outline Maps Grammar; Child S History of the United States; Study of Words : Scholars Companion Parleys Common School History; Morse's Geography Petelsons Familiar Science First Lessons in Composition Qlackenbos 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 are fully explained. sand an abstract prepared by the teacher is dictated These dictatlons are written in blank book and afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity of each pupils possessing textbook is obyiated : and each prepares abstract weekly it cannot be objected that they will not learn gcneralizc for themselves. There is also weekly class for the ex tension of general information and the discusson'o 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 in every month the classes are reviewed Parents invited to visit the class rooms these days. that they nay see the manner ia which the school is conducted and judge of the improvement made.
 The pupils in the Senior Department have access to a well-chosen library.
 The of study in the Senior Department com prises Scholars Companion Trench on Words Smellies Philosophy of Natural History Goodl ch' Geography and History, Ancient and Modern Moral Science; Markhans History of England Lincoins Botany; Bullions Grammar Mrs. Phelps' Chemistry Shaws English Literature; Daues' Agebra Burritt's Geography of the Heavens.
 Kames' Elements of Criticism !; Buffers Analogy ; English, Past and Present, Trench Mental Philoso- phy; Universal History Cousin on the Good, the Beautiful, and the True; Davies Geometry Book Keeping Putz and Arnold's Medieval Geography and History; Ssmondi s Literature of the South of Europe Composition. s.. TExr-BooKs IN FRENCH Jewctts ollendorff Roemer's Idioms De Fivas' Reader; Chouquet's Dialogues; Histore de France :: Lc Grand-pere; Literature Franchise Noel ct Chap sals Grammar; Piceiola; Gengembrc's Method |; Mahire Conversations. . The boarding pupils not permitted to go out unaccompanied by teacher They take daily cxer- else in the open air. and subjected to no restraints other than those essential to well regulated 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
 
 sent home A testimonial is awarded to excellence
 "Wednesday afternoons arc devoted to plain and ornamental Needle work, and every pupil is taught to sew neatly. A@
 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 urinen 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, atin. and Drawing. s25 per session, Junior Departm tS12-payable in advance. Extra branches above.
 The Principal is permitted to refer to the following gentle en .tg- e-r The Hon. Vim. L. Marcy, sec'y of state Washington '' :" Jefferson Davis, Sec'y of War, q.
 ' '' Judge Wayne, Sup. Court U. S. Savannah .-'' :" Q. S. Seymour, itchfeId. s' |" S P. Beers, ss .s @ !; s George c. Woodruff Esq, ''
 Doct. Henry W. Buell., q
 Henry R Goit Esq, agi.'