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A day school as well as a boarding school, the Female Institute had as its goal to prepare young women for the “cheerful discharge of the duties of life.” The curriculum approved by the Trustees offered a one year preparatory class and a three-year regular program consisting , for the most part, of subjects now considered appropriate for high school study. Requirements included precise grading of recitations and deportment, public examination at the end of each session, daily exercise in the open air, attendance at daily religious services in school and daily recitation of the Bible, participation at a weekly prayer meeting, and attendance at a Bible class once and a public worship twice every Sunday. “At the end of that year the committee that was in charge of the Institute was almost ecstatic in describing the progress of the Institute, and in words that must surely have rung pleasantly in the ears of those who were embarrassed by the poverty of the University as a whole, affirmed that the Institute from a pecuniary standpoint, ‘has paid, is paying, and will pay better than any other (department) of the school’. ” Tuition for the Female Institute: Preparatory course- $20, Regular course -$30. Each student paid for board, room, lighting, and heating $2.25 a week, and for washing one dollar a week; Day pupils were charge a dollar a year for fuel. Prosperity of Female Institute gave rise to the idea of expansion and the Board of Trustees authorizes the disposal of the building for no less than $6,000, provided that the right be retained to continue to use this building until such time as another one might be ready for the Institute to occupy. - Oliphant 1864: Miss Taylor resigns as Principal of the Female Institue after disagreements with the local Baptist minister. References
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1854: Miss Amanda Taylor takes over the principalship of the Female Institute. She agrees to take charge of the boarding department jointly with Mrs. D. E. Kean, who was teacher of mathematics in the Institute. During her first year in the position, Miss Taylor prepares a curriculum for the primary department and the regular course while the Institute acquires a library and a literary society and publishes its first catalogue.
- Theiss