Author Topic: 1854 classes catalog, Private Classical & Mathematical Institute/Hackensack  (Read 4503 times)

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1854 Program Announcement and Catalog of Classes & References for (the) Private Classical and Mathematical Institute Hackensack, N.J. John T. Demarest, Principal (with) an Integral Letter of Reference to a Prospective Students' Guardian from a Graduate. A four-paneled 'flyer' or brochure-catalog for this boarding school in New Jersey; listing pertinent facts for prospective students & their parents: "...This Institute is designed as a Boarding School for Boys, and the number of pupils will be limited to twelve....Youth will be carefully prepared for admission into any College in the United States, or for Commercial and other pursuits. The full course of study, therefore, will embrace a period of four years, and will be, as nearly as possible, according to the following scheme:..."; with list of the studies proposed for each of the 4 years; Latin, Greek, composition, history, arithmetic and algebra, geometry, Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Book-keeping, First Principles of Natural Philosophy, Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Surveying, Navigation, Evidences of Christianity; also "English Compositions required weekly during each year" and "A Biblical recitation on an every Sabbath"; Hackensack is described as "...a beautiful and healthy village, and is accessible three times a day from Hoboken."; the tuition was $ 250 per annum; with an impressive list of references, starting with the "Faculty of Rutger's College" and then listing 11 others, mostly reverends and various esquires; at the back panel is a handwritten letter, not dated and c. later 1850s, from G. Myers Anderson to his Aunt extolling the virtues of this school for her son, "...it will be more like home for him, from my own experience I would give this school preference..." and with a p.s. giving the Barclay stage coach directions to reach the place; each panel approx. 8" x 10"; printed black on a pale blue stock in several typefaces; some edge, tips wear & soil, old fold lines, old bleached-out spottiness; still very good, legible; an interesting ephemeral New Jersey educational history item from the middle part of the 19th century.


I wish the scans were more readable.


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