Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-02
Well Known Alexandria In
stitution to Begin It's
Forty-Fifth Session.
COURSE OF STUDIES.
Systematic and Progressive Line of
instruction From the Primary De-
partment to the High School.

This institution, boarding and day
school for young girls, will begin to-
morrow it's forty-fifth year OF educa-
tional work in Alexandria. Steadily
advancing along intellectual lines since
it's first establishment, it offers to-
day to it's patrons educational facul-
ties of a high order. Its central 10
cation, ample grounds, modern build
ing, well-equipped class room COM
plete courses? of studies and refined
Christian environment are factors that
make for the schools success and tend
to fix the choice of parents who wish
to give their daughters an education
that combines moral, physical and
intellectual training which alone re-
suits in producing perfect woman.
That the education given at St.
Mary's is of this high standard is suf-
ficiently vouched for by the fact that
it is directed,by teaching order that
is noted throughout the United States
for it's enterprise and the success OF
it's methods; founded seventy years
ago by an educator whose influence
over the young was phenomenal, the
Sisters of the Holy Cross today num-
ber one thousand members in the
United States alone, with flourish
ing college for young women at the
Mother House, Notre Dame, Indiana,
and fifty branch institutions of learn
ing scattered over the country from
the north to the south, from San Fran
cisco to New York; among all these
schools St. Mary's Academy in our
city holds an enviable place for its
large enrolment and the success that
has ever attended it.
The education given at st. Marys is
practical and complete, well calculated
to fit young women for life in point
of usefulness to themselves and to 9th
ers. Character development is ever
paramount; the Sisters make it dis
tinctive aim to supplement- the intel
lectual training whose scope is indicat-
ed in their thorough and extensive
curriculum, by assidious cultivation of
gentle and refined manners and above
all by unremitting efforts to incul-
cate the sound moral principles that
form the basis of a Christian life.
The course of studies divided into
three periods of four years eacht
present a systematic and progressive
line of instruction from the elementary
subjects of the Primary Department
through the intermediate stages of a
common school education in the Pre-
paratory Department to the branches
of the high school in the Academic
Department, on the completion of
which the student receives the gold
medal and diploma of graduate.
Twelve years are thus required for the
completion of the English course and
the securing of thorough education
in all Academic subjects.
A very special feature of the school
is the Commercial Course offered in
the Business Department to fit stu
dents for clerical work who have COM
pleted the eighth grade in any school.
Young women who hold St. Mary's
Commercial diploma are now filling
lucrative positions in this city and in
Washington and the marked success
attending this Department has long
since proved the wisdom shown in it's
introduction. The complete course of
two years includes stenography, type
writing, bookkeeping, commercial
arithmetic, spelling, business letter
writing, English, penmanship and com
mercial law; but working knowledge
OF stenography and typewriting or
bookkeeping and arithmetic may be
obtained in short course of one year
after which positions are easily Sc
cured.
ihe Music Department under the
direction of four experienced teachers
offers superior advantages; piano, or
gan violin and all other stringed in.
S'ruments, as we'll as vocal music
ana the theory so necessary to the
perfection of the art, are carefully
tangnt' The students often appear ir
puOnc and in musical or literary en-.