Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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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

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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. TEXT-BOOKS We prefer that the students buy their books after entering, as there will probably be some changes made in the text-books. The books used last year were as follows : Latin—Collar and Daniel’s Beginner’s Latin Book, also Gunnison and Harley’s First Year of Latin, Allen and Greenough’s Virgil, Allen’s Prose, Lowe and Ew¬ ing’s Caesar. Algebra—Sanford’s Elementary, Wentworth’s New, School, Wentworth’s Complete and Wentworth’s College. German—Keller’s First Year. Geometry—Wentworth’s Plane, Solid and Spherical. Physiology—Lippincott’s. English Grammar—Harvey’s, Buehler’s, Hyde’s. English Literature—Lockwood’s Lessons, English Authors, Butler’s School English, Genung’s Rhetoric. History—Hansell’s United States, Hill’s North Carolina, and Myer’s Modern and Mediaeval, Montgom¬ ery’s English, Myer’s Ancient. Spelling—Reed’s, Harrington’s and Westlake’s. Readers—Holmes’ Series. Arithmetic—Johnson’s Series. Geography — Maury’s Elementary and Maury s Manual. TEACHERS Our teachers are all thoroughly competent, and all of them have had experience in the school room. Our idea of building and sustaining a first-class school is that a few teachers well qualified for their work can accom¬ plish more than a large number of cheap, inexpen- enced ones. thirteen