Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-07-22
Valley Female College, Winchester,
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Rev. B.; ARBoeAsT, a. NJ. President The
Seventh Annual Sessloa begins First wednes-
day ln,Septemoer, 1879.
The Valley Female College is now pernla-
nently established Institution OF learning, hay
ing grown steadily in favor with the public for
just closed, has been the most prosperous IN its
career, the boarding patronage having
creased more than Twenty-Five per Cent. while
many we'll established and we'll conducted
schools losta per cent of patronage equal to
this. III consequence of financial distress in the
g This is strictly a Select Boarding School.
admitted to its halls The President. his wife,
and all the teachers, together with the board
g All nafe one me d ia and meet at
endeayor is made TO make the school not only o
place to learn books, and to learn them tho
roughly, but place to acquire ease and grace
s. No young lady ever. leaves the College
ldent's wlfo, or a lady teacher.
e. No debts are contracted by the pupils with
out the express Permission of the parent
guardian. and the President assumes n respou-
slbility for any debts made by direction or PEI
5. The young ladies attend church twice on
Sabbath. and H meet in the , college chapel each
President, or. in his absence, by teacher.
6. Special arrangements are made for post
encouraged to continue in the college after
graduation. as many years as possible. free of
are, taught Latin. Greek. German, French
Italian, Spanish, or advanced mathematics, up
o
this way the advantages of u Normal school are
connected with the college course, and young
desiring to cpitivates their minds far beyond
wnat can be done in the brief years of Il COLLEGE
course F can DO 50 with the very hest Of Of 'elPsm
last year were read through all of the following
books III German Goethe,s Faust, Eemont Her
Grimm, and the German Ballad Book. Ii
Italian. the larger part of ,Daute's. DIvtoa
liere. Corneile and Madame de Stael, six books
of Homer's Had, two books of Herodotus and.
in Latin. all Of saIlust's Jugurthine War and
Conspiracy of Catallmc. VirCiI's pastoral poetry,
Cornelius Nepcs and Ovid,s Metamor phoses.-
These YOU g ladies' bad read before all OF Cesar,
all of Yirgil's Enejd, and all of Horace. The
object was to give them such thorouRhness in
teach any of these authors, but TO read with
case and appreciate the latin writer's.
and eGnaI To anV in ar the va sS of
TDry contain 80 rooms, with q capacity for
seventy-fve bnarders.
ings, two hundred feet of porches. clever feet
wide, built expressly to give the young ladies
weather.
g. There are three acres of most t9stefnly
rear of the c"lego buildings strut off from tho
public view, where the young Indies conduct
public observation. subject only to tire con-
trol and direction of the lady teachers
J., III: vocal aud liIstru mental music arc Taught
sized by tue parent or pupil
II Minister'S children arc received free of
tnitlOn with some reduction in board.
- AS an evidence Of The heal hfn1ness of the
locality, we are prepared to state, that with n
family Of forty in NUN Der during the collegiate
year leIo-9, the entire bills of physicians did
not aggregate S15.' -
10. II Wow of the resumption of specie pay
ments and the reduced prices of provisions, we
have moderated our rates much below What we
char ged few years AGO.
The entire bills for AT weeks. without
music, are $4,000
This includes board, tn tlon the entire Eth
modern
guagcs. It also includes lights. fuel and fur1l-
ished rooms. It does not Include was Jag,
which is put ont. aud costs sl.50 per month.
The same. with inStrun entail music costs 325g 90
Tho same. with instrumental! and vocal
music, special lessons. cuats-..---....S $500 90
Absolutely no other Extras. For further ill.,
formation, apply BY letter for a'n@ue IL.
d. ARBOGAST,
1t. %inGlester, Va.