The Portland daily press., 1865-08-08
Miscellaneous.
Lewiston Falls Academy +!

THIS Institution will enter upon its seventh year.
in August, under the management of its present
Principal More than seven hundred students have
been In attendance within the past YEAR I'he Trus-
tees encouraged by its success and not unmndful of
the demands Of the age TOR educated business men,
educated mechanics, men educated with special refer
ence to this practical age and nation have decided to
add to the Academic Course two Departments--a
Commercial and Scientific and Industrial Depart
ment.
~ The Commercial DepGrtment.
The design Of this Course is to furnish young men
with such instruction as will enable them engage
at oncei any branch ofcommercial business. 1t will
combine the Theoretical and Practical. Rooms suit
able for Banking, Business Offices, Teegraphng,
Penmanship, Bookkeeping, &C., have been engaged
in the New Town Block.
Competent and experienced teachers have been en-
gageq and more Will be added as the exgencies OF
this department shall require 1t is intended to fur
nsh instruction equal to that obtained in the best
Commercial Colleges. One easily perceive the adj
vantages which may be derived from the connection
Of this department with the Academy, where thor
ough knowledge of the Modern languages can be OBJ
tained-a knowledge indispensable to business men
m many parts OF our Union.
The Branches Taught
Are keeping in all its forms Commercial Law:
Commercial Arithmetic; Business Correspondence;
Telegraphing; Penmanship; Photography, &C. 1a
y 4t4 LA 4A g Unusual FactJities y 3 3 see
Are offered to ladies desiring to pursue Penmanship
and Bookkeeping There will be Course of Leo
lures on Commercial Law by gentlemen eminent in
the legal profession. Rooms open day and evening.
The Scientific and Industrial Departmen,.
The studies of this course will occupy two years,
and include instruction by lessons in those branches
Of the Abstract Mathematics not taken up in the
Academic Course; Land Surveying; Geometrical
Drawing; Mechanical Drawing; Architectural Draw
ing; Shades, Shadows and Linear perspective; As
tronomy;- Navigation; Levelng; Mechanics; Loca-
tions of Roads; Calculating Excavation and Embank
ment; Construction Of Roads; Strength of Materias
Engineering; Mechanical Principles Of Architecture;
Masonry; Stone Cutting; Geology: Nineralogy; the
French and German Languages, and History In,
Geography; Logic and Political economy. m
AS much time win be given to feld-work with the
as the arrangement of studies will permit.
THE STUDIES OF THE FALL TERM -,si
fH first of the course) are .,.,.
Analyticos Geometry, Surveying, GeoDsetri-
cal DrGsOistd, and French. y4i
Aasi 70 TUITION @ oaa sefs.
sam9 ~ FULL. COMMERCIAL COURSE
Payable in advance and emitting the student
to the privilege Of completing all the studies
Of the department at any time after the pay
Penmanship, twenty lessons, 800
ACADEMIC COURSE.
Common English Branches, per term. "a s7a. $50
Higher English Branches, per term, 900
Scientific and Industrial Course, per term, $50 $50
Music with use of instrument per term, sg5yc 1900
Painting and Drawing, from 200 to 1000
Board In families, per week, including room,
nom salier2 efa q ea5aairlie 500 to 400
Post ofice address of the Principal, W. T. WEB
sTER, Auburn, Maine. ,, a. ayii.fs
.--nt Al si=eia e Calendar. .aaet
Fall Term commences Monday, August 2sth, 1885,
Winter Term commences Monday, Nov. goth, 1865.
Spring Term commences February 18th, 1866.
Summer Term commences May Tth, 1866
NAHUM RoRRILL,