MAPLEWOOD, PITTSFIELD, MASS. 



This Institction affords the following advantages for a thorough intellectual moral, and 

 physical education ; a large corps of able and experienced professors and teachers ; amply 

 sufficient cabinets and apparatus ; a spacious Gymnasium and other rare facilities for phy- 

 sical exercise ; the best social and moral influences, in a location of unsurpassed beauty 

 and salubrity. 



Its sessions are semi-annual, and commence respectively on the first Thursdays of April 

 and October. 



Ro^nn OP iJvsTxucTiojw 



Rev. CHA'S V. SPEAR, A. M., Rev. JA'S R. BOYD, A. M., Principals. 



Eev. CHARLES V. SPEAR, A. M., 



Moral and Natural Sciences, o.nd Ancient Languaf/es. 



Rev. JAMES R. BOYD, A. M., 



Mental Science, and English Literature. 



OTTO FEUER, 



Modern Languaes, Guitar, and Calisthenics. 



J. L. ENSIGN, 



Organ, Piano, Harmony, and Vocal Music. 



V. KNERINGER, 



Piano, Harp, and Vocal Culture. 



GEO. C. DUNHAM, 



Piano and Organ. 



Miss ELIZA A. SHEPARD, 



Drawing and Painting, 



Miss Z. A CLARK, 



History and Composition. 



Miss ELIZABETH B TYLER, 



3Iothemalics, djc. 



5Ies. ELIZABETH J. BRACE, 



Presiding Teacher in Study Hall. 



Mrs. N. brown. 



Domestic Superintendent. 



Rev. JOHN TODD, D. D., 



Pres'f Board of Trustees, and Lecturer on Biblical Science 



The Course of Study includes most of the solid branches taught in our colleges, and all the Ornamental 

 Branches any where pursued, embracing a period of four years, subsequent to a juTenile or preparatory course. 

 Pupils, however, may receive a partial education in optional branches, or leave at any point in the regular 

 course. Its completion entitles the pupil to the Diploma. 



Physical Education. The grounds of the Institute embrace an area of nine acres, one-half of which is laid 

 out in a garden and lawn, surrounded and intersected by gravel walks, ornamented with arbors and shrubbery 

 and flowers, enlivened with a large artifical fountain, and the whole secluded from public gaze by a dense bor- 

 der of forest and ornamental trees. In addition to this, a large hall, eighty feet in length by forty-five in 

 breadth, is fitted up with the most complete arrangements for calisthenic and gymnastic exercises, where the 

 pupils may engage in attractive sports, and under the guidance of an accomplished teacher, practice exercises 

 adapted to give development and grace to the proportions and movements of the physical system. 



Capacious and commodious vehicles are also provided without charge, for the purpose of affording recreation 

 and exercises together, by excursions amid the surrounding scenery. 



Moral and Social Eduoatiox. The Bible is made a prominent text-book, and it is the aim of the Prinoipals to 

 inculcate its lessons without sectarian bearing. 



The intercourse of the pupils with each other, and with the teachers, most of whom, together with the Princi- 

 pals and their families, reside at the Institute, is regulated in conformity with the usages of refined society. 



Location. Situated on the Boston and Albany Railroad, and at the northern terminus of ths Housatonic 

 Railroad, the Institute can be reached at all seasons of the j'ear in two hours from Albany, Hudson, or Spring- 

 field, and in six from Boston or New Y'ork, while, by means of the telegraph, it is in immediate communication 

 with all the principal places in the country. 



The long ranges of the Hoosic and Taconic Mountains on the east, south, and west of Pittsfield, with Saddle 

 Mountain on the north, enclose a valley of great fertility, appropriately denominated and well known as the 

 " Garden of the Bay State," in the center of which, on a gentle elevation, stand the buildings of the Institute, 

 presenting, especially from the lofty observatory attached to the gymnasium, a commanding and inspiring 

 prospect. 



Expenses. Charge for Board, including furnished room, fuel, and gas-light — and Tuition in all the English 

 Branches of the course. $125 the half year. For Ornamental Branches, an extra charge is made. Further par- 

 ticulars furnished on application to the Principals. 



Extract from Report of the Examining Committee, consisting of Prof. I. N. Lincoln, of Williams College ; Hon. 

 A. H. Laflin, of Herkimer, N. Y. ; Prof. L. Coleman, of Philadelphia ; J. H. Cowan, Bsq., of Knoxville, Tenn. ; 

 Rev. W. H. N. Stewart, Pittsfield; J. B. Alley, M. D., Boston. 



• * * * In conclusion, we would say that we have enjoyed every facility for becoming thoroughly acquainted 

 with the system of female education here adopted and applied. We conceive that the system is both grand and 

 beautiful in theory, and admirable in its practical working ; that it combines a correct and liberal view of the 

 noble and appropriate sphere of woman ; an accurate knowledge of the capacities of the mind, and a discrimina- 

 ting use of the methods best adapted to secure their complete and harmonious development. We believe it is no 

 disparagement to its former distinguished and successful Principals, to add, that in our judgment the Maple- 

 wood Institute was never in safer or better hands ; and we do not see how it could well be better manned than by 

 its present corps of experienced, efficient, and faithful instructors. 



We believe it is second to no institution of the kind in New England, and as such confidently and cordially 

 commend it to all who have daughters to educate, or who feel an interest in the noble cause of learning. 



Pittsfield, ^M^. 11, 1858. 



Persons desiring further information may address the Principals, or inquire of Wm. J. 

 Rhees, Esq., Smithsonian Institution, AVashington, D. C. 



