Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N C» 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 participate 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 reading. These societies are always attended by the Principal and by the teacher of English, who will act as critics. Each society offers a gold medal to the member making the greatest improvement in oratory and debate during the year. The Musigmarhonian medal was awarded to Mr. Plummer A. Taylor of Beaufort County, the Pierian to Mr. William M. Lovelace of Cleveland County. eighteen

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C month no part of the advance board or of the contingency fee will be refunded. This is done in justice 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 matriculation. 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 re¬ turned 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 repaired 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 disadvan- tage. 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 ex¬ pelled. Ministers of the gospel and those preparing them¬ selves for the ministry are charged only half rates on seventeen

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. G A gold medal was awarded to Mr. Horace Grigg of Cleveland County for oratory and debate in the annual debate between the Pierian and the Musigmarhonian Literary Societies. The Emersonian Literary Society for young ladies meets once each week for the reading of various selec¬ tions, the study of the lives of authors, for recitations and for the reading of original essays. These meetings are always attended by one or more teachers, who by friendly criticisms and advice encourage the students to greater zeal in the work. The Schenck Scholarship Medal is awarded to the student of the College Preparatory Course who makes the best general average. This medal, given by Maj. H. F. Schenck, was awarded to Miss Bessie Mull of Cleveland County. The Burns Recitation Medal, given for the best-ren¬ dered recitation at Commencement, was awarded to Miss Louise Wallace of Davidson County. The Carme Elam Medal, given by Mr. Carme Elam to the best declaimer among the boys, was awarded to Mr. L. R. Tate of Rutherford County. The Hoey Medal, a handsome gold medal worth twenty dollars, given by Hon. Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby, N. C., to be competed for by all the schools of Cleveland County, was won by Mr. H. Rowland English of Cleve¬ land County. To contest for the Declamation Medal or the Recita¬ tion Medal one must be a student of Piedmont High School for a period of not less than six months preceding the contest, and must not have won the Declamation or Recitation Medal at Piedmont the year previous. To contest for any of the other medals one must be a stu¬ dent of Piedmont High School for a period of not less than eight months. nineteen