Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 : $b being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school
History
Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 : $b being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school
Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.) -- History
Persons truly polite will treat their superiors with respect and
deference and their equals with affability and complaisance. They will
never be boistrous or rude in their manners will never talk or laugh
loud will avoid all vulgar and profane words as both mean and sinful.
They will never consider loud laughing a mark of wit or romping
indicative of sprightliness. They will never smile at the mistakes of
those who may happen to be more ignorant than themselves, will never
make reports of the fault and failures of their misfortunes, but will
on all occasions treat others as they would have others behave to
them.
(14) Talebearing and scandal are odious vices, and must be avoided:
neither must you flatter your companions by remarks on their beauty,
dress or any slight accomplishment in order to increase their vanity.
(15) While you are forbidden to report things to the disadvantage of
your companions, you are at the same time requested to inform one of
your teachers if you know of any conduct deserving of reproof not from
malice but a true friend lest the fault should become a habit too
strong to eradicate in future.
(16) Every person is bound to conform to the rules of the family where
she resides. She must never go out of an evening without the
permission of the heads of the family where she resides, read no
books, engage in no amusements without their knowledge and
approbation.
(17) Speaking or moving once whether with or without liberty will take
off the extra and more than once will give ¼ of a miss. Two hours
holiday lost for noise in the same week will take off 30 credit marks.
(18) Every person is forbidden to tell or be told in their lessons.
The course of study prescribed for those who wish to take degrees will
consist of the following branches—
Morse’s Geography, Webster’s Elements English Grammer, Miss Pierce’s
History, Arithmetic through Interest, Blair’s Lectures, Modern Europe,
Ramsey’s American Revolution, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Paley’s
Moral Philosophy, Hedge’s Logic and Addision on Taste.
If any person wishes to obtain the last honors of the school it will
be necessary for them to have finished this course, and to have
accomplished it in order. Should any person wish to study any of these
branches to the exclusion of the rest they are at liberty to do it but
they will be considered as having declined being candidates for the
degree.
The candidates must answer 8/9 of their questions in all branches in
General Examination. They must at no time have lost their whole
holiday and in order to ascertain this they must have credit mark.
They must never have lost more than one hour of their holiday for the
same result in their certificate, must never have lost 3 hours holiday
for noise and must have to be shown at the close of the school three
months journal or eight dissertations.
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