The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-26
Miscellaneous.
Lewiston Falls Academy!

NHIS Institution win enter upon its seventh year
IN august under the management of its present
fPrineipal More than seven hundred students have
peen ~ attendance within the past year. The Trus-
Yes encouraged by its success and not unmindfl of
Lne demands Of the age Tor educated business men
euucatea mechanics men educated with special refer
70 TINS practlcal age and nation, have decided to
add TO the Academic Course two DepartmantsE
commercial and Scientific and Industrial Depart
Ihe Commercial Department.
The design of this Course is to furnish Young men
" SUN ~ seTuctlon as will enable them to engage
at once IN any branch Of commercial business nj viii
combine the Theoretical and Practical. Rooms anti
able ior Banking, Business ofices, Telegraphing,
s tha Ns Dookkeeplng &C., have been engaged
Competent and experienced teachers have baar on
gaged and more will be added as the exigencies Of
this department shall require. 1t is intended 10 fT
nish instruction equal to that obtained in the hest
Commercial Colleges. One easily perceive the adj
Vansages winch may De derived from the connection
ough knowledge of the Modern languages can be oh
tained-a knowledge indispensable to business men
in many parts OF our Union.
l The Branches Taught r r
Are Bookkeeping in all its forms Commercial Law
Commercial Arithmetic; Business Correspondence !;
Unusual Facilities
Are offered to ladies desiring to pursue Penmanshp
and Bookkeeping There will be a 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 occupy two wears
and include instruction by lessons in those branches
of the Abstract Mathematics not taken up In fine
academic Course; Land Surveying; Geometrical
Drawing; Mechanical Drawing; Architectural Draw
ing; Shades, Shadows and Linear perspective; As
tronomy; Navigation; Levelng; Mechanics; Loca-
tons OF Roads; Calculating Excavation and Embank-
ment Construction of Roads; Strength Of Maserials
Bridge Construction; Mechanics of Machinery and
engineering; Mechanical Principles of Architecture
Masonry; Stone Cutting; Geology: Mineralogy; the
French and German Languages, and History In
sruction win also be given BY Lectures in Physical
Geography; Logic and Political economy
As much time will be given to feld-work with the
Compass, Surveyors Transit and Engineers Level
as the arrangement of studies win permit.
A THE STUDIES OF THE FALL TERM s4a
first of the course)ar
analytical GeoBaetyy,. Surveyih0, Geon,etri-
H cal DrdtCt1tq, and French. s8al e.
6 TUITION
FULL COMMERCIAL COURSE.
Payable in advance and emitting the student
Il 70 the privilege OF completing all the studies
ment, $4,000
Fenmanship, twenty lessons, tt M 300
ACADEMIC COURSE ~nil'f
Common English Branches, per term, $50
Higher English Branches, per term I.lUI 600
Languages per term, M $50
shA1u OOuIse, per rerln, 500
MUSIC with use OF instrument, per term, 1900
Painting and Drawing, from 200 to 1000
from ~ NJ = - - 800 to 400
sTER, Auburn, Maine.
0lH sftfr Calendar. filrf.fi4t Isl. f
Fall Term commences Monday, August 2Sth, 1868.
Winter Term commences Monday, Nov. Goth, 1865.
spring Term commences February 18th, 1866.
Summer Term commences May 7th, 1866. -1j
4thass NAHUM MOlsRILL, - .f.-r..s
Sec'y OF Board of Trustees.
Auburn, July 18th, 1865 july 20 S AVID