- Title
- North Carolina schools and academies, 1790-1840, a documentary history
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- Date
- 1915
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- Creator
- ["Coon, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1868-1927."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina schools and academies, 1790-1840, a documentary history
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Military Schools.
245
TO FARMERS AM) WEAVERS.
IT is desirable (o find a person who may be willing to undertake to
furnish the Southern Military School, at Williamsboro’ in Granville
Go. with all the Homespun Cloth necessary to make the undress Uni¬
form of the Cadets of that Institution. The said cloth to be of a dark
grey color, and corresponding in every respect with a pattern which will
he left at the 'Register Office for the inspection of the applicant. It is
necessary that application be made before the 15th of September nest.
A pattern is also left at the store of Messrs. Hamilton in Williamsboro’.
Raleigh, August 22.
— Raleigh Register, August 25, JS26.
FLAN AM) COURSE OP STUDY OF BINGHAM'S SCHOOL.
ROANOKE INSTITUTION
For Practical Scientific Instruction.
THE Course of Education at this Institution will embrace the fol¬
lowing Departments:
I. Classical. — This Department will include the Greek, Latin,
French and Spanish Languages.
II. The Mathematical will embrace Arithmetic, Algebra, Logarith-
ems, Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Surveying, Conic Sections,
Natural Philosophy, Astronomy and Navigation, and the Natural
Sciences, as Botany, Mineralogy and Natural History.
Particular attention will bo paid at this Institution to Practical Ed¬
ucation. Classes in Mathematics will be practically taught the appli¬
cation of Trignometry to Heights and Distances; Triangular Survey¬
ing; Levelling and Engineering; Gradation of Roads and Streets, the
use of the Barometer, when applied to taking the altitude of mountains
and other eminences. They will frequently he taken out to practice
with the Compass and Chain, Theodolite and Levelling Rods, and ac¬
companied by their instructors, will occasionally take excursions for
the purpose of making observations in Botany and Mineralogy.
III. English. — This Department will include English Grammar,
Penmanship, Book-keeping, Public Reading and Declamation, Ancient
and Modern Geography with the use of the Maps and Globes. Ancient
and [Modern History, Rhetoric, Composition, Criticism, Logic and
Moral Philosophy, Construction of Maps with the principles of Pro¬
jection.
The rudiments of Education, as Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, &c.
will be thoroughly taught, and the Junior Classes will in this respect,
receive particular attention.
Physical Education. — For the improvement of the health and the de¬
velopment of the Physical as well as mental energies of the cadets,
they will be required to practice daily and regularly, Military Exer-
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