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

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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.

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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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12 Asheville School. Asheville has many excellent physicians and surgeons, one of whom is connected with the school. A trained nurse is a member of the school household. PHYSICAL The school physician makes examinations each year, EXAMINATION - , j 11 i j -u that he may find all weaknesses and prescribe proper exercises to remedy them. EXERCISE Each pupil is required to exercise every day, out- of-doors when possible, otherwise in the gymnasium. The masters supervise and control the athletic exercise and games of the boys and coach them in their sports. For the various forms of exercise the school grounds contain three baseball diamonds, football field, quarter mile track, nine tennis courts, a short golf course, gun traps (under the supervision of a master), and a rowing course for the crews, seven-eighths of a mile in length. It is the intention not only to encourage the usual school sports, but also to arrange for such pastimes as will develop individual talent and inventiveness. It is the convic- tion that, while football, baseball and track athletics are excellent training, they should be supplemented to a considerable degree by natural play. The neglect of this old-time play for the conventional routine of ath- letics leaves the boys too dependent upon others and lacking in resources. With the woods, streams, boats, hills, fields, and the shops, there are abundant opportun- ities for all kinds of play.