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Story April 16, 1829

Lynchburg Virginian

Lynchburg, Virginia

What is this article about?

Proposal for establishing educational institutions including a high school on one of the Islands or at Athens to prepare young men for professions, a high school for females, and a Lancasterian model school, with funding needs for books, apparatus, and building.

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Centuries; and with as the anxiety of the youth acquire useful learning, that they submit to plates scratched, with figures, and passed round in class school.—Thus are scraped, atd tia ac. that would appal the scholars ot an English academy conveniences from the want of all. trs. paper, so that one might serve a whole class. year for a few years, utter which the mustitu- be fully rected uit five thon and doilars a The objeets now propused, it is thought, can es. "It is, first. the establisnment of a high hons, it is thought, will meet Hreir ow n expep. prepare young men for the study of the usefil school, on one of the Island-, or at Athens i and instruction ofelementary schools. Ser. grofessions, and more particularly for the care sion of femal Third; to fourl aLancasie- aodly, to institu'e a high schoo! for the instrne- rian school, ns a model for mhers." B woks, apparatus and bsuildimg, mut also bu provided.

What sub-type of article is it?

Historical Event

What themes does it cover?

Moral Virtue

What keywords are associated?

High School Elementary Schools Lancasterian School Education Proposal Athens Islands

Where did it happen?

One Of The Islands, Or At Athens

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One Of The Islands, Or At Athens

Story Details

Proposal to establish a high school to prepare young men for professions and elementary schools instruction; a high school for females; and a Lancasterian school as model, requiring five thousand dollars and provisions for books, apparatus, and building.

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