Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. Rates of tuition are as follows: Bookkeeping Department .$6.00 per month Shorthand and Typewriting Dep’t .... 6.00 per month Typewriting . 2.00 per month Penmanship . 1.00 per month CERTIFICATES OF PROFICIENCY Handsome Certificates of Proficiency will be given those who complete the college preparatory course. For this certificate a charge of $2.00 will be made. 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 Defining, 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, Spell¬ ing and Defining, Collar and Daniel’s Latin, Algebra, Civil Government. second year Arithmetic completed, Algebra, Caesar, Virgil, Latin Composition, Geometry, English Literature, Essays, Modern and Mediaeval History, German, Cicero. fourteen

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N« C. cation, when a course of equal value can be obtained in the high school, with the added advantage of the literary course for those who are deficient in this branch. Compare our rates of tuition and board with those of the leading business colleges and you will find ours to be just about half the amount they charge. All students of the Busi¬ ness Department have access to the school library, and are required to join one of the literary societies. In the Bookkeeping Department we teach the famous Budget System of Bookkeeping. This system of book¬ keeping is taught in the leading business colleges of the South. The course consists of instruction in Bookkeep¬ ing and Office Practice, Commercial Arithmetic, Com¬ mercial Law, Business Correspondence and Punctuation, Spelling and Penmanship. We use Gregg Shorthand and Rational Typewriting- in the Shorthand and Typewriting Department. The course consists of instruction in Shorthand, Typewriting, Business Correspondence and Punctuation, Spelling and Penmanship. Gregg Shorthand is by far the easiest to learn, easiest to write and easiest to read of any system of shorthand now in use. In the Fifth International Shorthand Speed Contest, held at Washington, March 26, 1910, writers of Gregg Shorthand won first, second and third places. Mr. Fred H. Gurtler, winner of first place, exceeded the best previous record by 23 words per minute. The winner of second place, Mr. Charles L. Swem, a boy of seventeen, established a world’s record for one of his age and ex¬ perience. The winner of third place, Miss Salome L. Tarr, a girl of seventeen, established a world’s record for accuracy, her notes being 99.4 per cent, perfect. The cost of books, stationery, etc., for the bookkeep¬ ing course is $9.00; for the shorthand and typewriting course $5.00. Payment in advance is required for books upon entrance to either department. thirteen

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N« C. THIRD ykar Algebra completed, Geometry completed, Political Economy, Critical Reading of English Authors, Virgil completed, Bible, History of England, History of the United States, German. 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: Eatin—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 Caro¬ lina, and Myer’s Modern and Mediaeval, Montgomery’s English, Myer’s Ancient. Spelling—Reed’s, Harrington’s and Westlake’s, New Practical. 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 fifteen