The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-05
Mis- cellaneous.
Lewiston Fails Academy!

NHIS Institution win enter upon its seventh year.
Il In August, under the management of it's present
Principal. More than seven hundred students have
been N attendance within the past year. The Trus-
tees enc by its success and not unindful Of
the demands OF the age TOR educated business men.
educated mechanics educated with special refer
to this practical age and nation have decided 70
add to the Academic Course two Departnents-a
Commercial and Scientific and Industrial Depart
ment.
The CommercioI Department..
The design Of this Course is to furnish young men
with sucn instruction as will enable them to engage
at once IN any branch Of commercial business 1t viii
SSe for f BanRing and Praec Rooms suit
in the New Town Block
Competent and experienced teachers have been en-
gagged; and more win be added as the exigencies OF
this department shall require 1t is intended to fur
nisn instruction equal to that obtained in the best
Commerelai Coneges One easily perceive the adj
vantages which may be derived from the connection
OF tins department with the Academy where thor
oIgn q the Modern languages can be OBJ
talnel-a knowiedge Indispensable to business men
In many parts OF our Union
The BrancI.es Tau0ht
Are Bookkeeping IN all its forms: Commercial Law
Commercial arithmetic; Business Correspondence;
Teiesraphing; Penmanship; Photography, &c.
Unusual Facilities
Are offered to ladies desiring to pursue Penmanship
anu Dookc,keepmg: There viii be Course of Lee
lures on commercial Law by gentlemen eminent in
the legal profession. Rooms open day and evening.
, The Scientific and Industrial Department.
The studies of this course will occunv two wears.
anu include instruction by lessons in those branches
q sae ADstract Mathematics not taken up in the
Drawing; Mechanical Drawing; Architectural Draw
ing; Shades, Shadows and Linear perspectiye; AS
t t NAVIGATION; Leyeling; Mechanics; Loca-
ment Construction of Roads, Strength Of Materials
Bridge CONSTRUCTION; Mechanics Of Machinerv and
Engneering; Mechanical Principles Of Architecture;
French and German Languages, and History. In
structo1 VIII also be given by Lectures in Physical
geography; Logic and Political economy.
As much time will be given to fieli-work with the
compass, Surveyors Transit and Engineers Level
as the arrangement of studies will permit
THE STUDIES OF THE FALL TERM
first of the course)a
Anatyttcas GEOMETRY, Surveying, Geonsetri-
cal Drasei,tq, aud French.
TUITION.
FULL COMMERCIAL COURSE.
Payable in advance and emitting the student
70 tne privilege OF completing all the studies
OF the department at any time after the pay f b
ment &ao M
Penmanship, twenty lessons s sts 500
ACADEMIC COURSE. es ~
Common English Branches, per term 6K0
Higher English Branches, per term 4Es 800
Languages, per term, 6b0
Scientific and Industrial Course. per term. S.5O
Painting and Drawing, from 200 to 1000
from - ''sS's LIT = 500 to 400
Post Office Address of the PRINCIPAL. W. T. WER-
sTER, Auburn, Maine. -
go Calendar. - p b 3 ..4sfaf
Fall Term commences Monday, August 2sth, 1866
WINTER Term commences Monday, Nov. Doth, 1866.
Spring Term commences February 18th, 1868.
summer Term commences May 7th, 1866. eef
NAHUM MORRILL,, $685.
s Sec'y OF Board of Trustees.
Auburn, July 18th, 1865. july % S AVID