Asheville School - Blue and White Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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10 A s h e V i 1 1 e School. THE HOUSE The House, the dormitory for boys of the lower forms, is of pleasing architecture, substantially built of brick and cement, and tasteful in finish. It is heated by steam, lighted by electricity, and equipped with an excellent sys- tem of ventilation, and with ample lavatories and bath- rooms provided with the best modern plumbing. THE SENIOR HOUSE The Senior House is a dormitory for the use of the boys of the upper two forms. This building is similar to the House in general appearance and construction, and is fitted with all modern conveniences for the comfort of the pupils. It has been named Percy Lawrence Hall, in memory of Millard Percy Lawrence, a member of the Class of 1906. THE SCHOOL The School, built of brick and cement, incorporates the best features of the most approved modern school buildings. It contains the recitation rooms, library, lab- oratories, shops, study, auditorium and club rooms for the different school societies, and is heated by steam and lighted by electricity. GYMNASIUM The gymnasium, the gift of generous and beneficent friends of the school, is a very substantial brick building. It contains five squash courts, four basket ball courts which may be used also for indoor baseball or indoor tennis, rowing machines, the usual apparatus, locker rooms, shower baths and a swimming pool twenty feet wide and seventy feet long.

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As hev i lie School. 9 Washington or to Cincinnati and thence to Asheville in Pullman cars reserved by the school. At the end of each term pupils will be returned to these points in the same manner. When there is sufficient patronage from localities other than those mentioned similar arrange- ments will be made for the transportation of pupils. The site chosen contains about seven hundred acres and is five miles west of Asheville, with which it is con- nected by the Southern Railway and an excellent macad- amized road. The property is bounded on the east by Hominy Creek, which furnishes excellent canoeing facilities for several miles. Ragsdale Creek flows through the grounds for more than a mile. A dam of reinforced con- crete, built across this creek, makes a large pond a mile in length used for swimming and boating and all kinds of aquatic sports. The buildings and play grounds are situated one hundred and fifty feet above the level of the creeks. Much of the land is sufficiently level to make fine fields for baseball, football, tennis, golf and other sports, and a large tract is densely wooded. Within two miles, north and south, mountains rise to a height of four thousand feet. On the east is the range of the Black Mountains culminating in Mt. Mitchell, six thousand seven hundred feet in altitude, the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. On the west are the Balsam Mountains and ranges of the Blue Ridge with Mt. Pisgah, five thousand seven hundred feet in altitude. The views in all directions are very beautiful.

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A s h e V i 1 1 e School. 11 The dining-room and the boiler-house are detached OTHER buildings. This arrangement secures immunity from dan- BUILDINGS ger of fire, since there is no fire in the main buildings. All the water used in the buildings is brought by WATER pipes from mountain springs which are several hundred feet higher than the school and above all habitations. The system of drainage is perfect. All sewage is carried in drains more than a mile from the buildings and emptied into a swift-flowing stream. DRAINAGE The school has its own dairy and gardens, which DAIRY AND provide abundance of pure milk and wholesome vegetables. GARDENS The teachers have been selected with reference to their recognized ability. All the teachers are college graduates who have had successful ex perience in the instruction and management of boys and have prepared themselves for this special work. TEACHERS The principals have the especial care and charge of cARE OF BOYS all the boys. Their desire is to know every boy inti- mately, so that natural aptitudes may be discovered, proper encouragement given, and defects of character remedied. Boys known to be vicious, objectionable, dull, or persistently lazy will not be admitted; if unwittingly admitted they will not be retained.