Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-26
The Gould Seminary, An English and French, Boarding and Day School fO Young Ladies.
 L1TcHFIELD, CONN.
C, H. HOLLlSTER, Esq, PRESIDENT. Miss s. HOGAN, PRINCIPAL.

ASSISTANT TEACHERS
 MISS H. J. STYLES. MISS s. A. STYLES DUPILS will be received into this Institution de- II signed for the efficient and thorough education th young laes on Monday the 7th day of July next
 The scholastic year Is divided into two sessions commenting 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 he received for less than one year unless some definite arrangement k made to the contrary before entering.
 Board and Tuition in English. French, Latin, Draw
 Ing: ana Needle-wolk per annuRl, $2o0 % Washing. tiff reqeired.) per session, 1900 seooihg, per session, 200 Few Kent, per session, f},
 EXTRA CuARGm
 Dancing, SIP % i"iiuhs-oi'. twenty lessons, 500
 water color, twenty lessons & oO
 pastel twenty lessons. & OO
 monochrouiatic, twenty lessons $ OO Ornamental leather-work, twenty lessons Sno Drawing-Crayon. twenty lessons, 500
 Fenciling, per session, GOO Muslc-lnstruhlental. per session, 20 % Use of Piano for practicng, per session, 500 Stationery. senior Demr tlnent per session, 800
 Junior Department per session. 200
 The charge for Stationery includes pcns 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 are taught in classes and the lesson made interesting as possible one advantage of this sys tenn is that all are bepeited alike, and the standing ill 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 s Spelling; Mitchelfs Outline Maps Grammar; Childs $ History o! tue United States: Study of Words !; Scholars Companion: Parleys Common School History; M"rse's Geography ; Pctelsons Familiar Science First Lessons in Composition Ouackenbos Outlines of English History: Arithmetic; Writing Reading.
 In the Senior Department large portion of the instruction given is in the form of familiar lectures a;ld conversation The lessons are fully explained and an abstract prepared by the teacher is dictated hese dctatlons are written in blank book and afterwards committed to memory thus the necessity of eash pupils possessing tex.a,ok k obviated and as each cne prepares abstract weekly it cannot be objected that they will learn generaiize for themselves There is also weekly class for the ex tension nf general information and the discussion o 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 c]as. these days, that they may see the manner in which the school is conducted, and judge of the improvement made.
 The pupils in the Senior Department have access to we'll chosen library.
 The course oi study in the Senior Department com prises Scholars Companion Trench on Words i; Snsllies Philosophy of Natural History Goodrich $ Geography and History, Ancient and Modern i: Composition and Rhetoric Quackenbos Wayland's Moral Science: MaIkllaln's History of England :: L'ncola's R~any: Builion's Grammar Jtrs Phelps Chsmiary Sl,aw's English Lteraure Daries IlqeLra Burritt's Geography of the Heavens.
 kanes' 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.
 TExr-BeoKs IN FRENCH,
 Jewett's O!lendor1f; Roemer's Idioms De Fivas' Render; Chouauets Dialogues Historic de France Le Grand-pere Litterature Franchise Noel ct Chap sal (tammar; fic,iola; Gengembres Method Mabire's Conversations
 The boarding pupils not permitted to go out by teacher, They take daily exer cse in the open air. and aresuhcct to no restraints other than t1osc essential to we'll regulated family House keeping is taught if desired
 Each pupil will supply herself with dressing case, work-hox. 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 hoNse, except at table when English is spoken and cheerful conversation encouraged.
 Day pupils who bring acrinen excuses from their parents, for unrrepared 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, Latin, and Drawing s25 per session. Junior nepsrtln payable in advance Extra branches as above.
 Ihe Principal is permitted to refer to the following gentle
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