Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. The course is broad and thorough. The School recognizes the need of the best instruction for begin¬ ners, as well as for the more advanced pupils, thus insur¬ ing a good foundation. Public recitals are given during the term. In these, all the students of music take part. They are thus stimulated to greater effort and become accustomed to appearing in public. The needs of pupils differ greatly — using Matthew’s Standard Graded Studies as a basis, we endeavor to select such other studies as are best adapted to the peculiar needs of each. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT This, the youngest department of the School, was begun last session and did good work in Book-keeping, Stenography and Type-writing. It is intended to make this one of the strong features of the School. With com¬ petent instructors, there is no reason why the work in these branches should not be done as well here as in any of the business colleges. With board at actual cost and living expenses generally low at Piedmont, there is no reason why the expense of a business education should be great. With the reputation of a school long and favor¬ ably known behind it, there is no reason why a -certificate of proficiency from this department should not com¬ mand the confidence of the business men of the city, town and country. Rates will be given on application. CERTIFICATES OF PROFICIENCY 1 Handsome Certificates of Proficiency will be given those who complete the college preparatory course. eleven

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. HISTORY This course is broad and comprehensive. It is intended to be much fuller than merely to prepare for college. In the first year Ancient History will be studied and Mediaeval and Modern History will be begun. In the second year Mediaeval and Modern History will be completed and English History will be begun. In the third year English History will be completed and the History of the United States will be carefully studied. Our object is not to make the pupil simply a reposi¬ tory of dates and disconnected facts, but to give him a correct idea of the underlying principles of history in their natural order. THE BIBLE A course is given in the Bible and Old Testament History which is equal to the first year’s course ofifered by most of the colleges. In this course the Bible is studied from a historical standpoint. The course is ben¬ eficial to all advanced students who take it, but is espe¬ cially useful to young ministers and to those who intend to enter the ministry. MUSIC The Music Department will be in charge of one who is thoroughly proficient in this branch, and no pains will be spared to make this part of the work equal to any other department of the School. ten

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. ENGLISH COURSE first year Arithmetic, English Grammar, Elementary Geogra¬ phy, Sounds of Letters, Spelling and Defining, Reading, History of North Carolina, Mental Arithmetic, Physi¬ ology. SECOND YEAR Arithmetic, English Grammar, Spelling and Defin¬ ing, Geography, Composition and Rhetoric, History of the United States. THIRD year English Grammar completed, Arithmetic completed, English Literature, Composition Work in English, Civil Government, Bible. COURSE PREPARATORY FOR COLLEGE first year Arithmetic, English Grammar, Ancient History, Spelling and Defining, Collar and Daniel’s Latin, Alge¬ bra, Civil Government. SECOND year Arithmetic completed, Algebra, Caesar, Virgil, Latin Composition, Geometry, English Literature, Essays, Modern and Mediaeval History, German. THIRD year Algebra completed, Geometry completed, Political Economy, Critical Reading of English Authors, Virgil completed, Bible, History of England, History of the United States, German. twelve