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

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16 Asheville School PROMOTIONS AND RE- ASSIGNMENTS HONORS YALE MEDAL SCHOLARSHIP CUP EXAMINATIONS AND CERTIFICATES FOR ADMISSION TO COLLEGE Promotions are based upon the daily work of the boys, upon tests, and upon examinations which are held at the end of the first term on the work of that term and at the end of the school year on the work of the year. At the close of the fall term, boys whose work in daily recitations and examinations shows that they are not doing satisfactorily the work of their forms will be dropped into the next lower form. Re-assignments to a higher or lower form are made at any time for adequate reasons. Honors of two grades are given. Honors of the first grade are given to boys who have received no monthly marks lower than satisfactory in deportment, and 80 in industry and scholarship, and honors of the second grade to boys who have received no marks lower than satisfactory in deport- ment and 80 in industry and no monthly marks lower than 70 in scholarship. The Asheville School Club of Yale University gives to the School each year a medal which is awarded to the boy whose influence has during the school year most promoted the welfare of the School. Each year the name of the boy attaining the highest scholarship record for the year is engraved on the Scholar- ship Cup. This cup was presented to the School by the Class of 1923. The examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board used by all colleges which require examinations for admission are held at the School. Certificates of the School are accepted by colleges which accept students on certificate.

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A sh e vill e School 15 Instruction in Piano, Violin and Mandolin is provided. music Boys to be admitted to the lowest form must be proficient require- in reading and spelling easy English, and must know admksion Arithmetic through decimal fractions, and the Geography of the United States, Europe and Asia. Applicants for advanced standing will pass such exami- nations as are considered necessary, and will be placed in the forms suited to their proficiency. No new boys are admitted to the sixth form and no change in the course of study is permitted after the student has begun the work of the sixth form. No new boys will be admitted to the fifth form whose preparation is so irregular or deficient that they may not do satisfactorily the work of the form or may not be prepared adequately for the preliminary examinations for admission to college if they are to enter college at the end of their course. Every applicant must furnish a record of his previous work and must present a certificate of honorable dismissal from his former school. A set of examination papers showing the work which must be done by a boy of any form before he is promoted to the next higher form will be sent on application.

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Asheville School 17 Asheville School seeks those boys only whose home life general has laid the foundation for good character, manly conduct ments and good scholarship. The discipline is not adapted to boys who require severe restrictions and the method of instruction assumes that the boys have some power of application and a will to work. Important letters and telegrams should be addressed to the Headmaster. All requests should be made to the Head- master direct and not through the boys. All business dealings must be conducted between the parents and the Headmaster, and cheques should be made payable to Asheville School. All rooms are single rooms and so placed as to have the sun half of each day, and there is not much difference between them. Assignments of rooms to old boys are made during the summer. Assignments to new boys are made in the order of application for admission to the School. The rooms are supplied with bedstead, springs, mattress, pillow, sheets, pillow slip, two double blankets, counterpane, chiffonier, table, book shelves, chair and clothes closet. Each boy should bring with him: Bible, prayer-book, small rug, toilet articles, face towels, bath towels, wash cloths, soap ; and should be provided with the usual clothing worn during the fall and winter months, and in addition should have rubber coat or mackintosh and boots for tramp- ing. All articles of clothing must be marked plainly with the boy ' s full name. Each boy ' s teeth should receive careful attention before he comes to school, and in case trouble with the eyes is sus- pected, a careful examination by a competent oculist should be made.