Source:A-card-1832-09-18
Wm. B. Lacey. "A card." Pittsburgh Gazette, Sept. 18, 1832, [p. 3]. Newspapers.com 96013217.
THE undersigned, being informed that a belief obtains, in the City of Pittsburgh, that charges for board and tuition in the 'Western Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies,' are fifty per cent. higher than they are in any other Seminary of the kind west of Baltimore, begs leave to state that the belief is not founded in fact. In the 'Institute,' board, candle light, fuel, tuition in Callisthenics, weekly lectures on etiquette and polite manners, pew rent, &c., amount to 110 per annum, and no more. Instruction in the various branches of a thorough and finished English education, during the summer time, $40, making in all $150. And the charges for Ornamental branches are proportionably moderate. The undersigned, in fine, engages to have Young Ladies entering the 'Institute' by the year, and paying their bills quarterly, in advance, boarded and instructed in all the solid and polite branches of Female education, in a style of elegance and accuracy, not surpassed in any Female Seminary in the U. States, for $200 per annum., which he believes is the amount charged by other respectable teachers in the neighborhood. According to this proposal and the terms of the prospectus, published July 4th, 1832, the price of boarding and teaching young ladies in the 'Institute' will vary according to the branches taught, from 126 to $200 per annum. [Signed] WM. B. LACEY.
President of the Western Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies.
Erin Hill, near Pittsburgh, Sept. 18.—3t
