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

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Asheville School 11 The School, built of brick and cement, incorporates the the school best features of the most approved modern school buildings. It contains the recitation rooms, library, laboratories, shops, study, auditorium and club rooms for the different school societies, and is heated by steam and lighted by electricity. The dining room and the boiler house are detached other buildings. This arrangement secures immunity from dan- ger of fire, since there is no fire in the main buildings. All the water used in the buildings is brought by pipes water 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 drainage in drains more than a mile from the buildings and emptied into a swift-flowing stream. The school has its own dairy and gardens, which pro- dairy and vide abundance of pure milk and wholesome vegetables. gardens The teachers have been selected with reference to their teachers recognized ability. All the teachers are college graduates who have had successful experience in the instruction and management of boys and have prepared themselves for this special work.

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10 Asheville 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 system of ven- tilation, and with ample lavatories and bathrooms provided with the best modern plumbing. THE The Senior House is a dormitory for the use of the boys SENIOR Hou E 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. GYMNASIUM ' Gymnasium, a very substantial brick building, con- tains five squash courts, four basketball 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. It is the gift of generous friends of this School, Mrs. George Tod Perkins and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beebe Raymond, grandmother and parents of George Perkins Raymond of the Class of 1914. The tablet bears this inscription: THE GEORGE PERKINS RAYMOND GYMNASIUM ERECTED AS A HELP TOWARDS PERFECT MANHOOD

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12 Asheville School CARE OF BOYS The principals have the especial care and charge of all the boys. Their desire is to know every boy intimately, so that natural aptitudes may be discovered, proper encourage- ment 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. Asheville has many excellent physicians and surgeons, two of whom are connected with the school. A trained nurse is a member of the school household. PHYSICAL The school physicians make examinations each year, EXAMINATION t qj may find all weaknesses and prescribe proper exer- cises 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 conviction that, while football, baseball and track athletics are excel- lent training, they should be supplemented to a considerable