OF

THE FREE ACADEMY

OF THE

CITY OF NEW YORK.

SEPTEMBER, 1854.

NEW YORK:

EDWARD O. JENKINS, PRINTER, 114 NASSAU STREET.

THE FREE ACADEMY.

THE FREE ACADEMY of the city of New York was established in 1848 by the Board of Education of the city of New York, in pursuance of an Act of the Legislature of the State, passed May 7, 1847, for the purpose of providing higher education for such pupils of the Common Schools as may avail themselves of its advantages. It is under the general superintendence of the Board of Education; but it is specially under the supervision of an Executive Committee, for its care, government, and management, appointed by the Board. All its expenses for instruction, apparatus, library, cabinet collections, books, and stationery, are paid out of the public treasury.

The students are admitted in annual classes, and the full course of study embraces five years.

The Board of Education is authorized by law to confer the usual collegiate degrees on the recommendation of the Faculty.

Graduates may

studies at option.

become Resident Graduates, and continue their

The Academy is situated in Twenty-third street, at the corner of Lexington Avenue; and its academical exercises, during term time, continue daily, (except Saturday and Sunday,) from a quarter before nine o'clock A.M., to three o'clock P.M.