Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE Academy Keeper. [Price One Shilling] THE Academy Keeper: Or VARIETY of useful DIRECTIONS Concerning the Management of an ACADEMY, THE TERMS, DIET, LODGING, RECREATION, DISCIPLINE, and INSTRUCTION of YOUNG GENTLEMEN. WITH THE Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions. AS ALSO Necessary RULES for the proper Choice and Treatment of Academy-Wives, Ushers, and other menial Servants: with the Reasons of making them public. _Quando pauperiem, missis ambagibus, horres; Accipe, qua ratione, queas ditescere._ HOR. LONDON: Printed for THO. PEAT, No. 22. Fleet-Street. M.DCC.LXX. Transcriber's Note: In the Contents, Chapter IX has been changed to read "Ushers" only and Chapter X, "Other Servants", which was not included in the original text, has been added. Sect. 14 in Chapter IX is missing from the original text. INTRODUCTION. After many unsuccessful experiments, made some years ago, to retrieve a declining fortune, I was lucky enough at last to marry the mistress of a boarding-school: her circumstances were not, indeed, at the time of our marriage, very considerable. But as I was neither unacquainted with the world, nor the more useful sciences, by a peculiar attention to the tempers of the boys, and the dispositions of their parents, by a flexibility of face, for which I was always remarkable, the assistance of a northern degree, and a tolerable share of assiduity; I soon accumulated a large fortune with credit. My eldest daughter I afterwards married to a favourite usher, resigned to him the school, and for his service drew up most of the following rules. After his decease I favoured many others with a copy, who adhered to them with equally great advantage, and added a few to their number: I therefore should not acquit myself properly as a citizen of the world, if I did not give every one an opportunity of seeing them who may have occasion to use them. Many alterations in the mode of education render them indeed, at this time, peculiarly necessary. Mothers, not school-masters, have with great propriety of late, the sole direction of their children's studies; as also what punishments shall be inflicted on them; what diversions must be allowed them; what degree of insolence they may express to their ushers; and what liberties they may take with their school-fellows. These are circumstances formerly unknown, and many, by a too great inattention to them, and an adherence to the ancient plan, have lately been ruined.