West Durham Seminary
1860

Transcribed by Sylvia Hasenkopf from the original document located at the Durham Center Museum.

Catalogue Of The
Teachers and Students
Of The
West Durham Seminary

For the Year 1860

Albany:
Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers
1860

Teachers.
Z. L. Newell, Principal
Miss Anna E. Lenon, Assistant
Students.

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Gentlemen’s Department

Students

Ladies Department

Summary

Gentleman……………………….30

Ladies……………………………26

Total……………………………..56

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Graduating Course
For Ladies and Gentlemen.

This course of study is completed in three years, and is
designed for those who finish their studies in this Institution.

None can enter upon it without sustaining a satisfactory
examination in the common English branches.

First Term

Second Term

Third Term

First Term

Second Term

Third Term

First Term

Second Term

Third Term

Another course is arranged, designed for Teachers in district schools, which will be thorough and systematic. Young men are fitted for College, and the classic department will receive all the attention its importance demands. No assistants will be employed but such as are fully competent.

Classes will be formed in Surveying and Civil Engineering at any time it is deemed necessary, or pupils wish to pursue those branches. Also in the ornamental branches classes will be formed when necessary.

Instrumental Music will be under the supervision of an accomplished Instructress, whose aim will be to advance pupils with thoroughness and rapidity in this interesting science.

Vocal music will receive particular attention. It is engaged in daily by every student, and is made a pleasant pastime.

MISCELLANEOUS

Reading is made one of the prominent features of a thorough education, and all are required to engage in it daily.

Writing and Spelling receive particular attention. Our motto is, no one can be educated who is not a good reader, writer, and a correct speller.

Composition writing is considered a most important branch, and the instructions in it are thorough; and from it no pupil is excused.

Declamation is engaged in by all the young gentlemen, and none need ask to be excused from it.

An Apparatus will be purchased as soon as consistent with the demands of the Institution, to which additions will be made as often as needed.

LIBRARY

A Library is already formed, to which new and valuable selections will constantly be made.

This Institution is pleasantly situated upon the side of the Catskill mountains, presenting the most beautiful scenery of any location of the kind in the world. Three sister states can be seen at a single glance; the highest peaks of the Green mountains, and the highest points of the mountains in Connecticut are visible. Its beautiful scenery, its bracing atmosphere, its pure water, its ease of access render it one of the most desirable locations in the State. It can be reached by stage from Catskill three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings, and three time a week from the west, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Pupils from New York city can leave during the summer season, at five o’clock, by boat for Catskill, and thence by stage to Durham, where they arrive at ten o’clock on the next morning.

MORALS

The Seminary is located in a highly respectable community of farmers, and is destitute of those evils which affect all large villages. There is no place where intoxicating drink is sold; and it is doubted whether there is a situation in the state where pupils will be so free from the allurements of vice.

ATTENTION TO PUPILS

As the number of boarders that the Hall will accommodate is limited to twenty, those pupils will have the care and instruction of the Principal at all times. All will enjoy the benefits of a well regulated Christian family. None need apply for board at the Hall who are not willing to be restrained by the family regulations. Each pupil is required to be courteous in his behavior.

GOVERNMENT

The government is mild yet firm; the good sense of the pupil is appealed to, and personal reputation rather than the fear of punishment, is made a motive for good behavior. Those who cannot be controlled by good and wholesome regulations after a fair trial, will promptly be removed. It is the sincere wish of the Principal that parents and guardians will not supply students with spending money. They should be supplied with all that is necessary when sent to the Institution.

The year is divided into three terms, viz., two of 15 weeks each, and one of 12.

The first term for 1860 will commence January 4^th, and continue 15 weeks.

The second May 9^th, and continue 12 weeks.

The third September 12^th, and continue 15 weeks.

TUITION

In the Lower English branches, per term of 12 weeks,………$3.00

Common,………………………………………………………3.50

Higher………………………………………………………….4.00

Greek and Latin………………………………………………..5.50

Music on the Piano…………………………………………….8.00

With use of Instrument………………………………………..10.00

Melodeon………………………………………………...……10.00

Vocal Music……………………………………………………1.00

Board at the Hall, including washing and fuel, $2.00 per week. Students furnish their own toilet soap, lights and matches. No deductions allowed except in case of sickness. All bills must be paid promptly at the close of each term.

REFERENCES

The Students are the references.

1. Students will attend church and Bible class every Sabbath.
2. Students will not attend parties of any kind without the consent of the Principal.
3. No profanity allowed.
4. Students rise at the ringing of the bell.
5. Other regulations made as circumstances require.
   

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