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

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given only in cases of serious misconduct or violation of fundamental School regulations. Upon the student’s classification depend many of his privileges and the degree of freedom which he shall enjoy during the ensuing three weeks. Permission to study in rooms rather than in the Study Hall, permission to visit town, the number of week-ends to which a boy is entitled, and other rewards are offered for high classifications; for low classifications extra periods of detention and penalties of like nature are in force. In addition to the privileges which may be earned under the system, and purely as an incentive to scholarship, boys whose academic stand- ing has been maintained at a certain level throughout the term are allowed to leave the School one or more days in advance of the regular beginning of the Christmas and Spring vacations. Each year the Sixth Form of the School carries on under the pro- vision of an Honor System. This system of self-discipline pre-supposes on the part of every boy self-respect based on honesty, loyalty to the School, and a spirit of cooperation. The Honor System implies the willingness of the Sixth Form to set, by example, standards worthy of emulation by the Under-Formers; and further provides, through the agency of the School Council of thirteen members, responsibility for general School conduct and morale. The Honor System implies that any boy who has either willfully or unwittingly violated a School rule shall report his case either to the Sixth Form Council or his Hall Master. The Sixth Form Council is to act as an Honor Committee—that is, to take charge of regulating the Honor System and to keep the Form alive to all the implications of the System. It is not the duty of the Council to spy or try to detect infractions of the rules, but rather to take cognizance of all infractions which by any means come to their notice and to deal with them in such a way as to mete out justice to the offender and protect the morale of the School. I 29 I

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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Asheville School seeks only those boys whose home life has laid the foundation for good character, manly conduct, 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 will to work. Business dealings must be conducted between the parents and the Headmaster, and all requests should be made to the Headmaster direct and not through the boys. Checks should be made payable to Ashe- ville School, Inc. All rooms are so placed as to have the sun half of each day; so there is not much difference between them. Assignments of rooms to old boys are made during the summer; to new boys, in the order of applica- tion for admission to the School. The rooms are supplied with bedstead, springs, mattress, chiffonier, table, book-shelves and chair. The School also furnishes sheets, pillows, pillow-slips and white spread. Each boy should bring with him a quilt, two double blankets, a small rug, not more than four and one-half by eight feet in size, curtains, colored bedspread if desired, toilet articles, face-towels, bath-towels, washcloths, soap. Rooms are approximately nine by fourteen feet. If curtains are made two and one-half yards long, they can be adjusted to any window. In addition, each boy should be provided with the usual clothing worn during the fall and winter months, including a supply of stiff white collars for wear on special occasions, a rubber coat, or mackintosh, and heavy shoes for tramping. All articles of clothing must be marked plainly with the boy’s full name, not initials. An extra charge will be made for marking anything found unmarked, and for mending any clothing other than that going through the laundry. Each boy’s teeth should receive careful attention before he comes to school, and in case trouble with the eyes is suspected, a careful examina- tion by a competent oculist should be made. Boys may consult a doctor only with the permission of the Headmaster. Taxicabs may be used for transportation between the School and Asheville. If they are to be used for any other trips, special permission [30]