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

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Chapel services, led by the Headmaster or one of the Masters, are held every morning. Church services are held on Sunday mornings. The Mitchell Society (named in honor of Charles Andrews Mitchell, co-founder) was organized by the Class of 1923 to foster the religious spirit in the heart of each boy and encourage a life of charity and self- sacrifice on the part of the student body. This Society is conducted entirely by the boys. It publishes annually the School Handbook, which is put into the hands of every boy. CHAPEL PREACHERS Sunday services in the Chapel were conducted during the year by the Headmaster and by the following visiting Ministers, and School and University leaders: Mather A. Abbott, Litt. D., Headmaster of Lawrenceville School The Rev. Albert W. Beaven, D.D., President, Colgate-Rochester Theological Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. The Rev. Hugh Black, D.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York City The Rev. Charles Reynolds Brown, D.D., Dean of the Divinity School, Emeritus, Yale University The Rev. Wilhelmus B. Bryan, Princeton Westminster Foundation, Princeton, N. J. Dr. George B. CuTTEN,Presidentof Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. The Rev. Ralph Marshall Davis, D.D., Church of the Covenant, Erie, Pa. Boyd Edwards, LL.D., Headmaster, The Mercersburg Academy The Rev. Charles W. Gilkey, D.D., Dean of the Chapel, University of Chicago The Rev. S. V. V. Holmes, D.D., Westminster Church, Buffalo, N. Y. The Rev. William H. Hudnut, D.D., The First Presbyterian Church, Youngstown, Ohio Alan Jenkins, B.D., Asheville School William Mather Lewis, LL.D., President, Lafayette College Paul D. Moody, LL.D., President, Middlebury College The Rt. Rev. E. A. Penick, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina U5]

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TT TT Wednesdays and Saturdays are half-holidays: Half-Holidays , , , , , . . on these days the regular program between lunch and dinner is suspended. Boys may walk in the country surrounding the school, play golf, ride, and in general follow their own inclinations. Under certain conditions they are permitted to go to town on Wednes- day afternoons. Sundays On Sunday, breakfast is at 8.30, dinner at 1.00, and supper at 6.00. The regular Chapel Service is at 11.00 a.m. After- noons are at the disposition of the boys, much as on half-holidays, except that no boisterous games are permitted. On Sunday evenings the hour from 8 till 9 is given over to what is known as Quiet Hour, at which times boys must be in their rooms reading, writing letters, or studying. Every Sunday evening there is a Reading by the Headmaster in his library; and from 9 till 10 the Headmaster and his wife are at home to Sixth Formers. In the chapel once a month is held an Evening Song Service conducted by the boys. Occasional whole holidays are declared, which Whole Holidays . , , , , the boys may spend at their will, although encouragement is offered to those who care to do mountain climbing and to spend their time out-of-doors. On such occasions masters arrange with boys overnight camping trips in the mountains, the parties leaving school the evening prior to the holiday and not return- ing until the following afternoon. Nearly all parents are fully cognizant of the Religious Life . c , ,.r c strain of modern life, of the unusual tempta- tions to which boys are subjected, and of the fact that more men fail today from lack of character than from lack of intellectual equipment. Asheville School, through the simple program of trying always and in every contact of school life to make the teachings and the life of Christ attractive to boys, endeavors thus to perform the highest service of which schools today are capable—to lay a ground-work of Christian character as that upon which all else must be built. The School is non-sectarian. [24]

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The Rev. Arthur F. Purkiss, D.D., Secretary of the Christian Laymens Association, Pittsburgh, Pa. Howard E. Rondthaler, D.D., President, Salem College, Winston- Salem, N. C. George Van Santvoord, M.A., B. Litt., Headmaster, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. The Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, D.D., New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C. Robert E. Speer, D.D., Secretary The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, New York City The Rev. Theodore Cuyler Speers, First Presbyterian Church, Utica, N. Y. The Rev. T. Guthrie Speers, Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md. The Rev. Wilson E. Tanner, D.D., Trinity Memorial Church, Binghamton, N. Y. The Rt. Rev. Frank EIale Touret, D.D., Tryon, N. C. The Rev. H. H. Tweedy, D.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, The Divinity School, Yale University The Rev. William Way, D.D., Charleston, S.C. The Classification System was introduced The Classification • 0 . , , . r in 1928 to provide a substitute tor petty System , disciplinary measures and to encourage scholarship. It is felt that this system has been of great value in developing School morale. Every student’s status is brought under consideration every three weeks by a Committee composed of representatives of the three upper Forms and three members of the Faculty, with the Dean presiding as Chairman. The student is classified in one of five groups designated by the letters “A” to “E”; “A” being the highest possible rating, and “E” the lowest. In determining classifications equal weight is given to the individual’s scholastic achievement, his effort in his studies as estimated by his Masters, and to his general standing in matters of deportment, and of contributions to the life and spirit of the School. An “E” rating is [26)