Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. contingency fee will be refunded. This is done in jus¬ tice to the school, from the fact that there are boys and girls who enroll and stay only a few days, or a week, and leave because of a lack of purpose, thus keeping away others who would stay throughout the session. Those wishing to pay board and tuition for the term in advance may do so, and they will receive interest on the amount deposited. A contingency fee of $1.00 is required to be deposited by each boarding student on matricula¬ tion. If no damage is done to the school property, and if the student remains in school not less than three months, this fee will be returned at the close of the session. If damage is done to school property, each must pay for the damage he does. If the perpetrator of the injury is not discovered the damage is to be re¬ paired out of the general contingency fund, and each pupil will have his proportional part of his contingency fee returned. No deduction in payment of tuition is made except in -cases of protracted sickness, and then only when a certificate of a physician is presented. All students are earnestly urged to begin on the first day of the session. Otherwise, they work at a dis¬ advantage. Permission to visit will not be given to the girls. Parents are asked not to make request that their daugh¬ ters be granted special privileges, for it will not be granted. All damages to school property must be paid for by the one doing the damage. No student will be allowed to carry a pistol,, or to indulge in profanity, gambling, or the use of intoxicants. Pupils who persistently break the rules will be expelled. fifteen

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Piedmont High School Lazvndale, N. C. BOARD We feel sure that our boarding arrangement can not be improved. We have all the benefits of the club plan, together with home comforts. No profit is made on board. Each student bears his proportional part of the expense, and saves whatever profit is usually made on board, thus materially lessening expense. Our method, too, prevents class distinction, which is some¬ times made in schools where some students board in boarding-houses and others at the mess-hall. Here no such rivalry can exist, for all students and teachers board on the same plan, and all eat in the same dining- hall. The only aristocracy which counts here is the aris¬ tocracy of brains, good conduct in school, and Christian living. During the last session board averaged for the full month, $5.60. Those who went home on Friday even¬ ing and returned Monday morning paid on an average $3.50 per month. Terms for tuition are cash at the end of the month, except by special agreement. Payment for board is expected to be made promptly. No profit is made on board, and no calculation is made for loss or delay in payments. Each boarder must deposit $7.00 on entrance. At the end of each school month he is required to pay his proportional part of board, and the seven dollars depos¬ ited at the beginning of the term is used in payment of his board for the last month, and any part remaining is refunded to the pupil. This is done simply to guard against loss to the boarding pupils. Board will be charged for no less time than for one month. In other words, if a pupil leaves school before the expiration of the first month no part of the advance board or of the fourteen

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. Ministers of the gospel and those preparing them¬ selves for the ministry are charged only half rates on tuition. To secure this reduction such students as are not personally known to the Principal must be recom¬ mended by their pastors. The mail of all the boarding girls will pass through the hands of the Principal. This rule will be suspended only on the written request of the parents or guardians. FREE TRANSPORTATION OVER LAWNDALE RAILROAD The president of the Lawndale Railroad offers free transportation to students of Piedmont High School for the first week of the school term. Those coming later than the first week will be charged one-half fare. At any time during the session our students can get half rates from Lawndale to Shelby and return by presenting a certificate signed by the Principal of the School to the agent at Lawndale. LITERARY SOCIETIES, MEDALS AND SCHOLARSHIPS The Pierian and the Musigmarhonian Literary Soci¬ eties for young men meet once each week for debate, declamations and the transaction of general business. In these exercises all members are required to partici¬ pate and all students who board at the hall are required to become members of one or the other of these societies. It would be hard to estimate the importance of this work in imparting a knowledge of parliamentary law, stimu¬ lating historical research, and cultivating general read¬ ing. These societies are always attended by the Princi¬ pal and by the teacher of English, who will act as critics. sixteen