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Matthew G. Rotch
2 Dr. Dearborn,
1
Mark D. Perkins,
1 Albert G. Starrett,
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Wm. G. Bruce,
1 Rev. Mr. Herbert,
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Total, 102 shares.
The names comprise an undoubted majority of all the legal voters in the district, and also some women who had no male representatives in their families. As was to have been expected, Dea. Wm. Conant, Mr F O. Kittredge, Dea John Bruce, Dr. J K Smith, and Dea J A Starrett were the largest subscribers. The amounts were not large, but for the immediate purpose they were sufficient. The num- ber of shares at first subscribed was 102, and the capital stock amounted to $510. Later when the Academy had been incorporated, and a commodious new Academy building was called for, these same men and women subscribed what were, for them, large sums for the object they had so much at heart.
The school-house was a very well constructed building, with a district school-room and entry on the first floor, and a room for "high- er education," reached by a stairway in the corner opposite the dis-
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trict school entry, and an ante-room over the same. To the admiring youth and their ambitious parents it seemed a very spacious and commodious educational home. Just when it was opened for use does not appear, But at the June session of the Legislature, 1850, the following act of incorporation was passed, it being Chapter 105, of the Laws of 1850 :
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty. An act to incorporate the Appleton Academy.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives in General Court convened that Nathaniel Bruce, D. W. Baker, Wm. Conant, S. G. Dearborn, J. A. Starrett, F. O. Kittredge, their associates and successors, be and hereby are incorporated by the name of the Appleton Academy, and by that name may sue and be sued. pros- ecute and defend to final judgment and execution, and shall be and hereby are vested with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities which by law are incident to corporations of a similar character.
SECTION 2. That said corporation is hereby authorized and empow- ered to acquire by purchase or otherwise, suitable buildings for ac- ademical purposes, and may hold real estate to the amount of three thousand dollars, and the same may sell, convey and dispose of, at pleasure, and may receive by donation or otherwise personal estate to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, the interest of which shall be expended to defray the expenses of said Academy.
SECTION 3. That said Academy shall be located in the town of Mont Vernon, in the county of Hillsborough, and Nathaniel Bruce, D. W. Baker, and William Conant or any two of the aforesaid grantees, may call the first meeting of said corporation by giving ten days' personal notice or by posting up three notices of the time and place of meeting in the most public places in said town of Mont Vernon, at least fifteen days prior to said meeting. at which meeting, or some subsequent one, they shall choose all necessary officers and adopt such rules and regu- lations as may be necssary or useful, not being contrary to the laws of the State.
SECTION 4. The legislature may alter, amend or repeal this act at any time when the public good may require it.
N. B. BAKER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
RICHARD JENNESS, President of the Senate.
Approved July 13, 1850.
SAM'L DINSMOOR, Governor.
The "Grantees and Associates" were summoned to meet at "Academy Hall," on Monday, August 5, 1850, at five o'clock p. m., "to see if they would accept the act of incorporation," and, if they did, "to choose all necessary officers, and adopt such rules and reg- ulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the objects of the grantees." The notice was signed by Nathaniel Bruce and William Conant, two of the grantees, authorized to call the first meeting.
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It appears from this that the "Academy Hall" must have been finished. The grantees met and were called to order by Nathaniel Bruce who was chosen mo lerator, and Dr. S. G. Dearborn, clerk, pro tem. It was voted to accept the act of incorporation, and that share- holders might become "associate grantees," and Newell D. Foster, Dea. John Bruce, Thos. H. Richardson, Thomas Cloutman, Isaac C. Richardson and James Bruce were added to the list of grantees. Messrs. N. Bruce and Dr. Dearborn were appointed to draft "rules and regulations for the corporation," and the meeting adjourned to meet "on Monday next."
At the adjourned meeting by-laws were reported and adopted, and a committee was chosen to invite the rest of the share-holders to become "associates," which seem to have been the same as "grantees."
August 17, an adjourned meeting of the corporation was held, and S. G. Dearborn was elected clerk, and Matthew G. Rotch, treas- urer. William Conant, Nathaniel Bruce, Samuel G. Dearborn, Franklin O. Kittredge, Joseph A. Starrett, James Bruce, and Hiram Perkins were elected as the first Board of Trustees. A large number of shareholders were voted in as associates or grantees.
August 23, a set of By-Laws of Appleton Academy were adopted, and as they show the animus of the founders of the institution the salient points are given herewith.
The annual meeting was fixed for the first Monday in August. The officers of the corporation were a Clerk, a Treasurer and seven Trustees, to be elected by major vote of the shareholders, each share being entitled to one vote. Section 3 was as follows :
"All persons who have paid five dollars or more towards the building which is contemplated for a public school, shall be Associates unless they shall object thereto : and any person who has not already paid anything toward the aforesaid building may become associated with us, on recommendation of the Trustees, and the payment of five dollars to the Treasurer of said corporation, taking his receipt there- for."
The Board were to choose one of their own number as President, who was to appoint "a visiting committee, whose duty it shall be to visit the school from time to time, and make such examination as may be necessary to see that the school is conducted in the best pos- sible manner; and if anything is ascertained by them which they think is wrong, or anything is suggested to their minds which would be beneficial to said school, they shall report the same to the Board of Trustees, who shall forthwith take such action as is necessary in the
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premises. The trustees shall also transact any business to the sus- taining of the aforesaid Academy.
"They may agree with some suitable person to open a school so many terms as may be thought best, during the year, providing he will take the use of the room and open the school upon his own re- sponsibility. But in no case shall they have power to hir teachers without being directed by a special vote of said corporation."
After providing for filling vacancies, etc., the following article, showing the expectations for future prosperity was adopted :
"ART. 9. All moneys received by donation or otherwise, after paying for the Academy building and fixtures, shall be appropriated for the purchase of such apparatus as is most needed, until said Acad- emy is well supplied, and the residue to be retained as a fund of said corporation to be placed at interest with good security.
"ART. 10. As this corporation was not intended for a money- making business, but simply for educational purposes, therefore no officer in this corporation shall receive any compensation for his ser- Vices, except the honor which he may win fulfilling them satisfacto- rily to himself and others."
The Board then organized by the choice of Nathaniel Bruce as President, and Rev. Charles D. Herbert, Dr. S. G. Dearborn, Samuel Campbell, Capt. Timothy Kittredge, George E. Dean, George W. Stinson, John Averill, Ira Kendall, Jesse Robinson, T. H. Richard- son, Rev. Bezaleel Smith, Dea. John Bruce. J. H. Goodale, esq., Rev. J. G. Davis and Edward D. Boylston of Amherst, Rev. E. B. Claggett of Lyndeboro, Dr. Kittredge of Nashua, Dr. Daniel Adams of Keene, Oliver Bixby and Rev. E. N. Hidden of Milford, as a vis- iting commitec. The Rev. Mr. Herbert had just been called to suc- ceed the Rev. Bezaleel Smith as pastor, and the latter had not left town, which accounts for bothi being on the list.
Strangely enough the record book of the Trustees of Appleton Academy does not contain any account of the first term of school which was conducted after the passage of, if not under, the act of in- corporation. It was held in the new Academy Hall, however, in the autumn of 1850. Lucien B. Clough was its first principal, assisted by John Ordronaux, a graduate of Dartinouth, and since a distin- guished professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Columbia College for many years. The first was afterward a most respectable lawyer in Manchester, and the last has long enjoyed wide celebrity for his ability as a public teacher of law and medicine in the city of New York.
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The announcement of the opening of the school appeared in the Farmers' Cabinet of Aug. 15, 1850, and was as follows :
APPLETON ACADEMY AT MONT VERNON, N. H.
The Trustees of Appleton Academy take pleasure in announcing to the friends of education, that they have recently completed their build- ing, and are now prepared to open it to the public.
They feel assured that the pleasant location of this Institution, and the universal interest of the people of ont Vernon will insure success. And they also flatter themselves that they have secured such Teachers as will entitle them to a patronage and give satisfaction to those who may avail themselves of the opportunity offered them.
The First Session will commence Aug. 21, and continue 12 weeks, under the instruction of L. B. Clough, A.B., aided by competent assis- tants. Tuition: Common English Branches, $3.50. Latin and Higher Branches, $4.00.
Board can be had in good families, including rooms and lights, for $1.50 per week. Rooms can be obtained by students wishing to board themselves.
Per order of the Trustees.
For more particular information address
NATHANIEL BRUCE, Eso., DEA. WM. CONANT, D. W. BAKER, ESQ., THOMAS CLOUTMAN, EsQ., F. O. KITTREDGE, EsQ.
The following is a list of the pupils during the term. There was no printed catalogue, but the list was preserved by Principal Clough and furnished by him, in response to a request made by the Rev. C. C. Carpenter, under date of August 16, 1884 :
Averill, Almira J.
Clough, M. C.
Averill, Carrie
Clough, Abbie C.
Baldwin, Sabrina F.
Clough, F. V. B.
Baldwin, Susan A.
Conant, Walter S.
Baldwin, Maria S.
Dunbar, Annette E.
Bancroft, Wm. H. C.
Dunklee, G. W.
Batchelder, Charles
Foster, Samuel K.
Batchelder, John A.
French, Almira
Batchelder, Nancy R.
French, Clinton
Brown, -?
Hartshorn, John A.
Bruce, Clarinda F.
Hutchinson, -? Jones, Jane M. W.
Bruce, George A.
Bruce, James P.
Kendall, Emeline
Campbell, Wm. H.
Kendall, Cyrene E.
Campbell, Elizabeth M.
Kittredge, Charles
Cloutman, Sarah Emeline
Kittredge, Harriet E.
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Kittredge, Nancy M.
Smith, Elizabeth J.
Langdell, Frances
Smith, H. Porter
Perkins, Ann M.
Starrett, Henrietta M.
Putnam. Helen M.
Stewart, Edmund P.
Robinson. Mary E.
Stinson. Sarah Ann
Roby, Kilburn
Towne, Emily
Rotch, Albert M.
Wheeler, E. M.
Rotch, Maria Adelaide
Smith, Augusta
Wilkins, Nancy H.
The total number of names above given is 49, which was a very good number to begin with. before the school had fairly been organ- ized. With half a dozen exceptions the pupils were residents in Mont Vernon. Mr. Clough taught but a single term.
Nothing was done towards permanently starting the school until January 26, 1851. when at a special meeting it was voted to make im- mediate arrangement for a Spring session of school, and Dea. Wm. Conant was authorized to procure a teacher.
A week later the Deacon reported that it was thought that the encouragement was not sufficient for a Spring term of school, and it was voted to arrange for a Fall session.
On the 3d of May, 1851, at a special meeting it was voted that individual members of the Board should "gather the necessary infor- mation relative to the school;" and on the 17th of May, Deacons Starrett and Conant were made a committee "to confer with George Stevens in regard to engaging his services as an instructor," and Nathaniel Bruce and F. O Kittredge, were requested to draw up a paper certifying Mr. Stevens' terms. and to present the same to citi- zens soliciting their names to become responsible for the specified sum.
June 16, at another special meeting, Hiram Perkins and Deacon Conant were a committee to secure board and rooms for students, and Esquire N. Bruce. S. G. Dearborn and F. O. Kittredge were ap- pointed to prepare a notice or announcement of the commencement of the school ; and at an adjourned meeting June 23d, the notice was reported and adopted. The committee on board and rooms reported that they "had made ample provision."
August 8, 1851. the stockholders of the corporation elected N. Bruce, moderator ; S. G. Dearborn, clerk ; Wm. A. Stinson, treasur- er; and N. Bruce, J. A. Starrett, Win. Conant, John Bruce, James Bruce, Thomas Cloutman, and F. O. Kittredge, trustees for the en- suing year.
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There is no further record of anything more done by the Board of Trustees this year, except to appoint, at a special meeting held Sept. 12, 1851, a large committee "to visit and report the appearance of the school at its close." No record appears of the agreement made with Mr. Stevens, or of the fact that he was engaged to teach the school at all. But there is extant a copy of the first catalogue that was printed, and its title page shows that it was "A Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors and Students of Appleton Academy at Mont Vernon, N. H., for the Academical year ending August, 1852." "Concord : Steam Power Press of McFarland & Jenks." The year began in August, 1851.
The second page contains the names of the Trustees, Nathaniel Bruce, Esq., Chairman, Dea. Wm. Conant, F. O. Kittredge, Dea. J. A. Starrett, Jno. Bruce, Esq., Thomas Cloutman, James Bruce, S. G. Dearborn, M. D., Secretary. "Board of Teachers : Mr. Geo. Stev- ens, A. B., Principal; Mrs. Elizabeth R. Stevens, Preceptress, and Teacher in French, Drawing and Painting ; Mr. James M. Emerson, Assistant Pupil, and Mr. Josiah M. Blood, Teacher of Penmanship."
It is perhaps a matter of sufficient interest to reproduce the names of these charter members, so to speak, of the Academy, and to give also the other pages of this first catalogue, as showing how the school started out.
STUDENTS-FALL TERM, 1851.
GENTLEMEN.
NAME.
RESIDENCE.
NAME. Hutchinson, Jesse L.
RESIDENCE.
Batchelder, John A.
Blood, Josiah M.
Brown, Joshua
Brown, Leonard J. Bruce, George A.
Buzell, George B. Campbell, William H. Mont Vernon
Cleaves, William L. Conant, Albert
Smith, David A.
Mont Vernon Mont Vernon Antrim
Conant, Charles E.
Conant, Harlan P.
Dudley, Lorenzo E. Emerson, James M. Goffe, Nathan
Mont Vernon Mont Vernon Mont Vernon Mont Vernon Mt. Holly, Vt Barnstead Bedford Barnstead Amherst Milford
Upham, Phineas E. Vent, Charles F.
Wheeler, John E.
Amherst Pittsfield Amherst
Hanson, Caleb W. Hartshorn, John L. Hutchinson, Elias S.
Mont Vernon Hollis Mont Vernon Amherst Mont Vernon North wood
Marden, George A. Norton, John Hudson, N. Y Pittsfield Bedford
Paige, Benjamin F. Parker, Charles I. Rotch, Albert A. Smith, Daniel H.
Stearns, Charles H. Lowell, Mass Stuart, Edmund Amherst Pittsfield Thorndike, Thomas H. Trow, Henry H. Mont Vernon
Milford
Kittredge, Charles M. Mont Vernon Mont Vernon
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LADIES.
NAME. RESIDENCE.
Adams, Lucy M. K. Littleton, Mass
Perkins, Ann A.
Averill, Caroline S. Mont Vernon
Averill, Sarah F. Mont Vernon
Baldwin, Maria S. Mont Vernon
Baldwin, Mary Mont Vernon
Baldwin, Susan A. Mont Vernon
Batchelder, Mary J.
Mont Vernon
Batchelder, Nancy R. Mont Vernon
Beard, Sarah W.
Mont Vernon
Brown, Rebecca D.
Mont Vernon
Campbell, Elizabeth M.
Mont Vernon
Smith, Theresa M.
Deering
Stevens, Caroline A. Mont Vernon Starrett, Henrietta M.
Mont Vernon
Underwood, Ellen J. Amherst
Weston, Mary J. Mont Vernon
WINTER TERM, 1851-2.
GENTLEMEN.
NAME.
RESIDENCE. NAME. RESIDENCE.
Blood, Josiah M.
Hollis
Hutchinson. Andrew B.
Mont Vernon
Brown, Joshua
Mont Vernon Mont Vernon
Hutchinson, Elias S. Milford
Hutchinson, Hayward Milford
Coburn, George E. Conant, Walter H.
Mont Vernon
Marden, George A.
Mont Vernon
Dunbar, Stephen H.
Mont Vernon New Boston Barnstead
Parker, Francis W.
Piscataquog
Emerson, James M. Hanson, Caleb W.
Barnstead
Rotch, Albert A. Mont Vernon
Hanson, John
Barnstead
Thorndike, Thomas H. Pittsfield
Upham, Phinehas C. Amherst
LADIES.
NAME.
RESIDENCE.
NAME. Marden, Sarah L.
RESIDENCE. Mont Vernon
Baldwin, Maria S.
Mont Vernon
Parker, Phílinda P.
Piscataquog Mont Vernon
Baldwin, Susan A.
Mont Vernon
Perkins, Ann A.
Brown, Rebecca D.
Mont Vernon
Perkins, Emily L. Mont Vernon Mont Vernon
Campbell, Elizabeth M.
Mont Vernon
Perkins, Mary F. Rotch, Maria A. Mont Vernon
Cloutman, Sarah E. Mont Vernon
Smith, Maria S. Mont Vernon
Hartshorn, Elizabeth S. Amherst
Hutchinson, Georgianna, Milford
Stevens, Caroline A. Mont Vernon Sawyer, Miranda L. Mt. Holly, Vt
Jones, Jane M. W. Amherst
SPRING TERM, 1852.
GENTLEMEN.
.
Kendall, Elizabeth C. Mont Vernon Kittredge, Harriet E. Mont Vernon Parker, Philinda P. Piscataquog
NAME.
RESIDENCE.
Mont Vernon Mont Vernon Mont Vernon Amherst Lyndeborough Robinson, Harriet A. Mont Vernon Robinson, Mary E. Rotch, Maria A.
Perkins, Emily L. Perkins, Mary F. Phelps, Sophia E. Rand, Nancy E.
Mont Vernon Mont Vernon
Sawyer, Miranda L. Mt. Holly, Vt Smith, Augusta S. Mont Vernon Mont Vernon Smith, Elizabeth J. Smith, Maria S. Mont Vernon
Cressy, Martha F. Beverly, Mass Hartshorn, Elizabeth S. Amherst
Hutchinson, Georgiana Milford
Bruce, George A.
Campbell, William H. Mont Vernon
Morrill, Ashley C. Canterbury Pittsfield ·
Paige, Benjamin F.
Baldwin, Almira J.
Mont Vernon
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NAME. RESIDENCE.
NAME.
RESIDENCE.
Adams, Leonard B. Littleton, Mass
Kittredge, Charles F. Mont Vernon Kittredge, Charles M. Mont Vernon
Adams, John W.
Littleton, Mass
Blood, Josiah M.
Hollis
Marden, George A. Mont Vernon
Bruce. George A.
Mont Vernon
Moore, Gilman D. Bedford
Buzell, George B. Northwood
Fisherville
Campbell. William H. Mont Vernon
Conant, Walter H. Mont Vernon
Parker. Francis W.
Emerson, James M. Barnstead
Perkins, John T.
Fletcher, Edward Littleton, Mass
Roby, Kilburn H.
Mont Vernon
Hanson, John
Barnstead
Hutchins, Charles L.
Concord
Hutchinson, Andrew B.
Mont Vernon
Trow, Arthur A. Mont Vernon
Hutchinson, Hayward
Milford
Upham. Phinehas C. Amherst
Hutchinson, Justin E.
Milford
Vent, Charles F. Pittsfield
Hutchinson, Jesse L.
Milford
Wheeler. John E. Amherst
LADIES.
NAME. RESIDENCE. NAME. RESIDENCE. Kittredge, Lauretta E. * Mont Vernon Mont Vernon
Beard, Sarah W. Mont Vernon
Manning, Mary E.
Bragg, Cordelia M. J. *
Mont Vernon
Bruce, Frances C.
Mont Vernon
Bruce, L. Augusta
Mont Vernon
Otis, Elizabeth E.
New Boston Parker, Emily J. Piscataquog Parker, Philinda P. Piscataquog Perkins, Ann A. Mont Vernon
Perkins, Mary F.
Mont Vernon
Rotch, Maria A.
Mont Vernon
Starrett, Henrietta M.
Mont Vernon
Stevens, Caroline A.
Mont Vernon
Stinson, Mary A.
Mont Vernon
Stinson, Sarah A.
Mont Vernon
Jones, Jane M. W. Amherst
Underwood. Ellen J. Amherst
Wallace, Marion Manchester
Wilson, Georgianna E.
Mont Vernon
* Students in Drawing.
SUMMER TERM, 1852.
GENTLEMEN.
NAME.
Adams, John W.
RESIDENCE. Littleton, Mass Mont Vernon Mont Vernon Barnstead Amherst
Fisherville Mont Vernon
NAME. RESIDENCE.
Ramsdell, George A. Milford Bruce, George A. Ramsdell, George T. Milford Conant, Harlan P. Rotch, Albert A. Mont Vernon Emerson, James M. Smith, H. Porter New Alstead Hartshorn, John L. Thorndike, Thomas H. Pittsfield Tuten, Edward T. Mont Vernon Kittredge, Charles F. Mont Vernon Morrill, Ashley C. Perkins, James W.
Vent, Charles F. Pittsfield
Adams, Lucy M. K. Littleton, Mass
Baldwin, Susan A.
Littleton, Mass Moore, Hannah St. Stephens, N. B Morrill, Mary A. Fisherville
Butterfield, Ann W. New Boston
Campbell, Elizabeth M.
Mont Vernon
Cloutman, Ellen R. " Mont Vernon Cloutman, Sarah E. Mont Vernon Davis, Harriet W. Brownsville, Me
Hutchinson, Georgianna. Milford Hutchinson, Laura A. Milford Hutchinson, Mary Josephine
Milford
Kimball, Sarah E. Littleton, Mass Kittredge, Harriet E. Mont Vernon
Starrett, William S. A.
Mont Vernon
Thorndike, Thomas H. Pittsfield
Piscataquog Mont Vernon
Hanson, Caleb W. Barnstead
Smith, H. Porter
New Alstead
Morrill, Ashley C. Parker, Charles J. Bedford
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LADIES.
NAME. RESIDENCE. Bragg, Cordelia M. J. *
Mont Vernon
NAME. RESIDENCE. Kittredge, Ellen J. Mont Vernon Kittredge, Lauretta E.
Cleaves, Augusta, L. Mont Vernon
Mont Vernon
Cloutman, Ellen R. * Mont Vernon
Perkins, Mary F.
Mont Vernon
Cloutinan, Mary E. Mont Vernon
Rotch, Maria A.
Mont Vernon
Conant, Martha E. Mont Vernon
Stinson, Mary A.
Mont Vernon
Elliott, Sarah E. Amherst
Upton, Jane *
Mont Vernon
SUMMARY.
Fall Term.
66
Winter Term,
38
Spring Term,
66
Summer Term,
28
Total, 198
TEXT BOOKS.
ENGLISH.
American School Reader; Smith's Quarto Geography; Weld's New Grammar; Parker's Aids to English Composition: Weld's Parsing Book; Paradise Lost; Goodrich's Pictoral History; Worcester's Ele- ments of Universal History; Comstock's Natural Philosophy; Com- stock's Chemistry, Revised; Wood's Botany; Hitchcock's Geology; Abercrombie's Intellectual Philosophy; Wayland's Moral Science; Cut- ter's Physiology; Colburn's Decimal Arithmetic; Adains' Arithmetic, Revised; Robinson's Algebra; Robinson's Astronomy; Davies' Survey- ing; Davies' Legendre's Geometry; Preston's Book-keeping; Wilson's Punctuation; Greene's Analysis.
LATIN.
Weld's Latin Lessons and Reader; Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar; Cæsar's Commentaries; Cicero's Select Orations: Sallust; Virgil; Cicero de Senectute; Horace; Livy; Ovid: Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Andrews' or Leverett's Latin Lexicon; Butler's Atlas Classica; Ramshorn's Latin Synonyms; Anthon's Classical Diction- ary; Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities.
GREEK.
Crosby's Greek Lessons; Crosby's Grammar; Crosby's Xenohpon's Anabasis; Greek Testament; Homer's Iliad; Liddell and Scott's or Pickering's Greek Lexicon; Sophocles Greek Verbs; Arnold's Greek Prose Composition.
FRENCH.
Bugard's French Translator; Telemaque; Charles XII: Racine; Madame DeStael's L'Allemagne; Surrenne's Dictionary; Ollendorff's Exercises.
GENERAL REMARKS.
This Institution has now been in operation one year. The success
Harwood, Mary J. * Mont Vernon * Students in Drawing.
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which has attended it encourages the Trustees in the prosecution of their original plan, to make it a permanent school. The uncommon fitness of the locality requires no comment to recommend it to all who have vis- ited the place. Fanned by the purest of New England's breezes, it also enjoys the healthiest moral tone. Transgression is difficult where there are no possible incans by which to transgress.
All scholars are required to attend church upon the Sabbath, also a Biblical exercise.
Especial attention will be given to such as may wish to fit for Col- lege. It is intended to make the instruction in the Classical Depart- ment of the most thorough character, and to present advantages sur- passed by none, to those who may enter epon such a course of study. While no branches shall suffer neglect, Classical and Aathematical studies shall receive their place as the foundation of a thorough educa- tion.
A Teachers' Class will be formed in the Fall and Spring Terms, if desired.
APPARATUS.
A new Philosophical Apparatus will be procured before the com- mencement of the Fall Term. The school-room is already adorned with Geographical Maps, and both Lambert's and Cutter's Physiological Charts.
LECTURES, ETC.
The Teachers will, in the course of each Terin, give lectures upon Philosophy, Chemistry, Physiology, Geography, Teaching and Morals. Physiology will be made a general exercise. There is also a general exercise daily in Mental Arithmetic.
WEEKLY EXERCISES.
There will be weekly exercises in Declamation, Composition, Spell- ing, Analysis of words, and Punctuation. The prominence which will be given to any one of these branches will depend upon the deficiencies of scholars.
FRENCH, DRAWING AND PAINTING.
To those who may wish to pursue these branches, unusual facilities are afforded here. Skillful instruction will be given in Pencil Draw- ing, Black and Colored Crayoning, Painting in water colors and oils.
EXAMINATIONS.
Public examinations are had at the close of each Term, under the charge of a committee selected by the Trustees.
CALENDAR.
There are Four Terms annually of Eleven Weeks each, commencing for the ensuing year as follows:
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