EDUCATION:
At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful
village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded,
clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries,
instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry,
astronomy, trigonometry the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required),
writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature.
Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.
Charles Dickens, advertisement for Squeers's Academy, Nicholas Nickleby
