Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Lawndale, North Carolina 17 Under this arrangement, we are confident better results can be obtained. 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 education, 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 board and tuition 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 Business Department have access to the school library and are required to join one of the literary societies. In the Bookkeeping Department we teach the Budget System of Bookkeeping. This system is taught in some of the leading business colleges of the South. The course consists of instruction in Bookkeeping and Office Practice, Commercial Arith¬ metic, Commercial Law, Business Correspondence and Punctuation, Spelling and Penmanship. We use Gregg Shorthand and Rational Type¬ writing in the Shorthand and Typewriting Depart¬ ment. The course consists of instruction in Short¬ hand, 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 in Washington, March 28, 1910, writers of Gregg Shorthand won first, second and third places. Mr. Fred H. Gurtler, win¬ ner of the first place, exceeded the best previous record by 23 words per minute. Mr. Gurtler has since been elected president of the Chicago Law Re¬ porters Association. The winner of second place,