Regulations and Course of Instruction.
Adopted by the Board of Commissioners, 9th of August, 1844. Baltimore: Printed by James Lucas, 1844.
8vo.; yellow printed wrappers, sewn; lightly worn.
Signed “Wm. F. Frick Esqr.” Frick, a prominent Baltimore lawyer and businessman, served as president of the Baltimore School Board, and is listed in the pamphlet as a committee member “On the school in N. Paca street.” This school, Western High School, opened three months after this pamphlet was published, on Nov. 1, 1844, as the oldest all-girl public high school in the United States.
The pamphlet lays out rules of admission, a detailed three-year course of study, as well as information on governing of the school, discipline, library use, and examinations. The objective of all-girl high schools, stated at the beginning, is to, “by the moral influence of education, develope [sic] and enforce those great principles which lie at the foundation of correct habits and good morals, and constitute the basis of a valuable character.” The course of study divides the school's curriculum into 7 "Subjects of Instruction”: English and Belles Lettres; Mathematics; Natural Philosophy; Natural History; Chemistry; Moral, Mental and Political Sciences; and Music, and lists the books to be studied for each.
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