Crawfordsville high school, annals, Nov. 1833

Description:	Letter announcing the establishment of the Crawfordsville High School, soliciting students, and describing the prospects for the institution. 1833 Nov. Crawfordsville High SchoolThe Board of Trustees of the Crawfordsville Classical & English High School take this method to inform the citizens of this place and the public generally that they have obtained a teacher from the East to take charge of the school. He is now on his way and is expected here in a few days. He comes well recommended & has with him a considerable number of books and other donations for the use of the school. The first session will commence on the first Monday of December next & continue four months. Price of tuition $4.00 for the English department and $6.00 for the classical per session.Board for a considerable number can be had at one dollar per week. Young men wishing to attend would do well to apply early as we may not be able this session to accommodate with Board in the institution all who may apply.By order of the Board, John Thomson, Sec. of the Board.P.S. It is to be understood that the school is to be conducted on the Manual Labor plan. Students will have the privilege of working from one to two hours each day earning what their labor may be worth. The editors of the papers published at Lafayette, Greencastle & Rockville will please to give the above three in sections & forward their bills. Crawfordsville, Nov. 2d, 1833.As the interest of education is conceded to be a matter of the highest importance, it is to be hoped that this magnanimous effort to add another to the numerous institutions of the kind, will meet with the encouragement it so justly merits. The site selected is a beautiful eminence a half mile west of town; the buildings tho not large are commodious, peculiarly calculated to render the situation of students pleasant & agreeable. There is perhaps no situation in the Wabash Country affording greater advantages to an institution of this kind than Crawfordsville. Crawfordsville, the extensive fertile country by which it is surrounded, the industrious population which are rapidly forwarding the business of agriculture - the remarkable health which has prevailed since the earliest settlements were formed, the general morality of the people warrant its friends in the indulgence of the highest hopes of its future, prosperity and importance: and we doubt not but that the institution established here under so many favorable circumstances will move forward prosperously and more than realize the most sanguine hopes of its friends. Crawfordsville Record.
Origin:	1833
Created By:	Hovey, Edmund O. (Edmund Otis), 1801-1877
Publisher:	Wabash College
Source:	http://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15705coll36/id/20
Collection:	Wabash College - The Hovey Scrapbook
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Subjects:	Wabash College

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