Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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IO Piedmont High School the purpose of encouraging the students and inciting them to higher ideals and nobler efforts. A well organized Young Men’s Christian Association is well attended. Two prayer meetings are held each week by the students, one by the girls and the other by the boys. These services are voluntary, and while no one is forced to go, they are largely attended and a spirit of devotion is shown that is pleasant to witness. Cant is discouraged; but it has been the constant effort of the management of Piedmont High School to inculcate a spirit of reverence for God and veneration for holy things. The school is distinctly Christian, but it is not denomina¬ tional. English The object sought in this department is to give the student a thorough acquaintance with the language and with the best models of the literature, that he may know how to understand and use the one and appreciate and interpret the other. The subject will be studied in three courses. To enter Course I the student should be ac¬ quainted with the elementary forms of the language and have such knowledge of syntax and sentence structure as can be acquired from Hyde’s Book I or its equivalent. All students are required to complete and pass a satisfac¬ tory examination on the work of each course or its equivalent before entering upon that of the course next above. Students making a grade of less than 70 on the work of the Pall Term will not be continued in the class during the Spring Term, but may take the class next below. Course 1.—Grammar reviewed. Elementary Compo¬ sition :—Scott and Denney. Classics for study on class or for parallel reading:—Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress; Irving: Sketch Book; Longfellow: Courtship of Miles

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Lawndai,!;, North Carolina 9 Situated on the top of a majestic hill sloping in every direction, thus giving perfect natural drainage; command¬ ing a magnificent view of hills, vales, grassy, undulating plains, and of the Blue Ridge in the distance; shaded by a forest of stately oaks ; enlivened by the music of rippling water; with excellent drinking water and air free from the taint of malaria, nature has made this an ideal spot for an educational institution of a high order. But what has man done towards perfecting it? He has given us daily communication with all the world by telephone and telegraph, a railroad within a mile of the school, electric lights, water-works, dormitories adequately furnished, large recitation rooms fitted with patent desks of the most approved pattern, and last, but not least, by his efforts as instruments in God’s hands we are unpolluted by bar-rooms, gambling dens and other moral dangers of town and city life, which too often blight the lives of boys from Christian homes and blast the hopes of their dearest friends. We are nearly one-half mile from Lawn¬ dale ; thus we have the advantage of the village with the perfect quiet of rural life so necessary to sustained men¬ tal effort. Sunday Schools and Churches Two flourishing Sunday Schools are within easy reach of us. The Baptists have regular appointments for preaching at New Bethel and Lawndale. The Methodists hold regular services at the latter place. The Presby¬ terians also hold services at Lawndale, but at irreguiai intervals. These churches are only a good walk from the school. All students are required to attend at least one of these churches. Students are required to attend daily roll-call which consists of singing, reading the Scriptures, and of prayer. At these services occasional short talks will be made by the Principal and others, for

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Lawndale, North Carolina ii Standish; Whittier: Snowbound; Coleridge: Ancient Mariner; Lowell: Vision of Sir Launfal; Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. The emphasis in this class will be given to inflections, sentence structure and analysis. The student will be graded strictly on spelling, capitalizing and the punctua¬ tion of ordinary English prose. Course 2.—Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition-Rhe¬ toric. The following classics will be read:—The Old Testament (See Bible Course 1); Shakespeare: Julius Caesar; Tennyson: Gareth and Lynette, Launcelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur; Dickens: Tale of Two Cities; Eliot: Silas Marner or Gaskell: Cranford. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work. Course 3.—Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition-Rhe¬ toric Part II, Lockwood’s Lessons in English. Classics to be studied with care:—Shakespeare: Macbeth; Burke: Speech on Conciliation with America; Pope: Translation of the Iliad; Milton: L’Allegro, II Penseroso, Comus; Macaulay: Life of Johnson. Special attention will be given to the sources and de¬ velopment of the language and literary forms as illus¬ trated by usage of the best writers of the past and present. Students will be prepared to comply with the entrance requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges. 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.