Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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MATHEMATICS Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. The work in the college preparatory course for the firs t year will consist of a careful study of Arithmetic with the view of making the students proficient in busi¬ ness calculations and in preparing them to be successful teachers of arithmetic in our public schools. The elements of Algebra will be studied. In the second year Wentworth’s New School Algebra will be completed and Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be begun. In the third year Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be mastered and Wentworth’s College Algebra and Went¬ worth’s Geometry will be begun. ° t 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. HISTORY This course is broad and comprehensive. It is in¬ tended 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. eleven

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N C 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 de Coverley Papers, George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, Scott’s Ivanhoe, Irving’s Sketch Book, Longfellow’s Evangeline, 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 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 con¬ sist of a careful reading of Caesar, Books I and IV, and a review of Books II and III, with drill work in grammar. The third year’s work will consist of a study of Cicero’s Orations against C ' ataline, six books of Virgil’s Hmeid, 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 clas¬ sical colleges, much stress will be laid on the relation of the Latin language to our mother tongue. ten

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. THE BIBLE A course is given in the Bible and Old Testament History which is equal to the first year ' s course offered . by most of the colleges. In this course the Bible is studied from a historical standpoint. The course is bene¬ ficial to all advanced students who take it, but is espec¬ ially 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. This 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 Although this department was only begun two years ago, last year showed a very satisfactory increase in attendance over the preceding year. It is our intention to make this a strong feature of the school, and hope within a few years to place its standard of excellency upon an equal plane with the other departments. There is no reason why a young man or young woman should attend a business college in a large city, where board and tuition are high, to receive a commercial edu- twelve