Hendersonville High School - Laureate Yearbook (Hendersonville, NC)

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28 THE MOUNTAINEER Course of Study The course of study as outlined for the year 1915-16 will be adopted with a few slight changes for 1916-17. With our small number of high school teachers it is not possible to offer elective courses. Thus the school, to a deplorable extent, is rendered in¬ capable of adapting itself to community needs. However, in the second, third and fourth years of the high school pupils may sub¬ stitute Music, Expression, or a course in the Business Department for one of the regular subjects. But certificates, and not diplomas, will be awarded to those who make these substitutions, except in the case of business courses. We hope next year to give a full business course, including Book-keeping, Typewriting, and Stenography. In this department the Commercial Diploma will be given upon the completion of the required course. This course will include all of the regular Eighth Grade work, all of the subjects in the Business Department, and the English, History, and Science of the second, third, and fourth years of the high school. MUSIC Miss Marguerite Briggs, Teacher The music department was introduced into the Hendersonville Graded school this year. The ambition of this department is to give the pupil a practical knowledge of music—to teach him to study it intelligently and with a definite aim, and to enable him to appreciate good music. The course of instruction is based on the latest and most im¬ proved methods—that which is indorsed by the best teachers and conservatories of music. The studies are modified to meet the various needs of the pupils. Music entertainments will be given off and on during the year, so that pupils may have the opportunity of playing in public, which inspires confidence and gives self-possession. EXPRESSION. Miss Hallie Hinds, a graduate of the Department of Expression of Coker College, organized a Department of Expression in the Hendersonville Graded school this year. The work of Miss Hinds has been beneficial to the whole school, and the marked improve¬ ment of her pupils is sufficient advertisement of the course which she offers.

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THE MOUNTAINEER 27 Horace Gray—“I fell off a fifty foot ladder yesterday and it didn’t hurt me.” Gaither Briggs—‘’Oh, you didn’t.” Horace—“I fell off the first round.” Mr . Stepp—“Briggs, when you read that composition on Ar¬ bor Day, I couldn’t tell your face from your head.” Note—His hair is red. —C. S. We wish as a whole to congratulate Mr. Lee Allen on his graduation .... to long trousers. Miss Edwards (to a pupil)—“Zachariah, you are not bright at all. Why can’t you learn anything?” Zach—“Oh, yes, indeed, Miss Edwards, I am bright. I am so bright that father calls me ‘son’ ”. Miss Edwards—“Who discovered America?” Bright Pupil—“Sir Walter Raleigh.” Miss Youmans, (upon seeing Duncan Crinkley looking in his book during Botany class)—“Duncan, do you know what I do when I catch anyone looking into their book during class? I gi Ti e them zero.” Mr. Crinkley (who had been reading very fast)—“Miss You¬ mans, I wasn’t looking at that question. I hadn’t got to it.” Miss Hill (in tenth history)—Miss Pace, what was one of the chief causes of the French Revolution? Miss Pace, (after a hasty side glance at her book)—“The ex¬ travagances of the Bourbon monastery.” Teacher—Otis, spell “termagant.” Otis—“T-e-r-m-a-g-a-n-t. ” Teacher—Correct. Now can you tell me what it means?” Otis—“Yes’m, it’s the thing they call the end of the car line.”

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THE MOUNTAINEER 29 The study of expression rightly pursued and intelligently guided tends directly toward the amassing of knowledge which will enable the student to sanely correlate his own experience and his own thought to the life of humanity, and to prove this knowledge of himself by his ability to manifest himself. Also the study of masterpieces of literature, the interpretation of their truth and beauty, and the expression of it with voice and body, will develop an appreciation of literature and art, and thus will be a valuable means of cultivating the spiritual life. EXPENSES Business Department, $4.00 per month. Business Department, (without typewrit¬ ing practice) $3.50 per month. Music $3.00 per month. Expression $3.00 per month. We hope to be able financially to install a domestic science department after the following year, together with the nucleus of a complete laboratory equipment. Rules and Regulations of the Henderson¬ ville Graded Schools. Teachers I. All appointments to positions in the Hendersonvifiq Graded schools shall be made by the School Board in the following manner: A meeting of the School Board shall be held for that purpose after notice shall have been published once a week for three weeks in one or more of the local newspapers, which notice shall state the object of the meeting and call for applicants; applications shall be made in writing and shall be accompanied by such credentials and testimonials as the applicant may wish to submit, and every ap¬ pointment made shall be conditioned upon the appointee’s obtaining q First Grade Certificate from either the County or State Superin¬ tendent. II. All teachers in the Hendersonville Graded schools are re¬ quired by law to attend the County Institute and take the Teachers Reading Course. III. Teachers shall hold their places at the pleasure of the School Board, and not be at liberty to resign until n otice of such in-