Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. . ENGLISH The various colleges of our country claim that but few pupils are thoroughly prepared to enter the regular college classes in English, and hence they have inaugu¬ rated what they call sub-junior -classes, or, in plainer terms, they are forced to do preparatory work in Eng¬ lish, which should be done in the preparatory schools. This is not as it should be; our mother tongue should not be neglected, and while it is our purpose to prepare our students thoroughly in Latin, Mathematics, History, Political Science, etc., much time will be devoted to train¬ ing the pupils in the elementary principles of composi¬ tion, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing and grammar. An effort will be made to inculcate in our students a taste for good literature. In the higher classes the following books will be read and studied: The Sir Roger deCoverly Papers, George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, Scott’s Ivanhoe, Irving’s Sketch Book, Longfellow’s Evange¬ line, Matthew Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustrum, Tennyson’s Princess, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Haw¬ thorne’s House of the Seven Gables, and others as they are suggested by our needs. The books prescribed for entrance by the Southern Association of Colleges will be studied each year. LATIN The first year in this course will consist of a thorough preparation of the lessons in Collar and Daniel’s Begin¬ ner’s Latin Book and a special drill on the paradigms and vocabulary. When a good working knowledge of eight

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Piedmont High School Lazvndale, N. C. efforts as instruments in God’s hand we are unpolluted by bar-rooms, gambling dens and other moral dangers of town and city life, which too often blight the lives of boys from Christian homes and blast the hopes of their dearest friends. We are nearly one mile from Lawn¬ dale; thus we have the advantage of the village with the perfect quiet of rural life so necessary to sustained mental effort. SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES Two flourishing Sunday Schools are within easy reach of us. The Baptists have regular appointments for preaching at New Bethel and Lawndale. The Metho¬ dists hold regular services at the latter place. The Pres¬ byterians also hold services at Lawndale but at irregular intervals. These churches are only a good walk from the School. All students are required to attend at least one of these churches. Students are required to attend daily roll-call, which consists of singing, reading the Scrip¬ tures, and of prayer. At these services occasional short talks will be made by the Principal and others, for the purpose of encouraging the students and inciting them to higher ideals and nobler efforts. Two prayer-meetings are held each week by the students, one by the girls and the other by the boys. These services are voluntary, and while no one is forced to go, they are largely attended and a spirit of devotion is shown that is pleasant to witness. Cant is discouraged but it has been the constant effort of the management of Piedmont High School to inculcate a spirit of rev¬ erence for God and veneration for holy things. The School is distinctively Christian, but it is not denomina¬ tional. seven

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. the elementary principles of the language has been secured the class will read the second and third books of Caesar. The second year’s work in this department will consist of a careful reading of Caesar, Books I and IV, and a review of Books II and III, with drill work in grammar and composition. The third year’s work will consist of a study of Cicero’s Orations against C ' ataline, five books of Vir¬ gil’s . Eneid, a review of prose composition, varied with original exercises. While the primary object of this department is the thorough preparation of pupils for entrance to the classical colleges, much stress will be laid on the relation of the Latin language to our mother tongue. MATHEMATICS The work in the college preparatory course for the first year will consist of a careful study of Arithmetic, with the view of making the students proficient in bus¬ iness calculations and in preparing them to be successful teachers of arithmetic in our public schools. The ele¬ ments of Algebra will be studied. In the second year Wentworth’s New School Alge¬ bra will be completed and Wen tworth’s Complete Algebra will be begun. In the third year Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be mastered and Wentworth’s College Algebra and Wentworth’s Geometry will be begun. The object of this course is not only to prepare for college but to strengthen and develop the reasoning power of those who may never have the privilege of a college education. nine t