Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Lawndai North Carolina ii the advantage of the village with the perfect quiet of rural life so necessary to sustained mental 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 Presbyterians also hold serv¬ ices at Lawndale, but at irregular intervals. These churches are only a good walk from the scho . All students are re¬ quired to attend at least one of these churches and Sunday Schools. 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 Prin¬ cipal and others, for 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 denominational.

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10 Piedmont High School efficiency till it is now generally recognized as one of the strongest preparatory schools in the State. It has nineteen years of steady growth behind it, a large patronage and many friends in the present, and glorious possibilities for the future. Our water cannot be surpassed. At a distance of about a quarter of a mile from the school buildings is a fine, large spring of pure, sparkling water, affording more than twelve gallons per minute. This water is piped to us by means of an electric pump. A tank of fifteen thousand gallons capacity, standing on a steel tower more than fifty feet high, gives us the best means of fighting fire. With this and with electric lights, with no danger of exploding lamps nor deadly fumes of gas in our dormitories, with buildings of only two stories in front, we feel that we have less to fear from fire than ever before. At a distance of not more than four hundred yards from the school are springs of health-giving sulphur-lithia and chaly¬ beate water. Situated on the top of a majestic hill sloping in every direc¬ tion, thus giving perfect natural drainage; commanding 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 institu¬ tion of a high order. But what has man done towards per¬ fecting 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 ade¬ quately 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 Lawndale; thus we have

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12 Piedmont High School COURSES OF STUDY 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 acquainted with the elementary forms of the language and have such knowledge of syntax and sentence structure as can be acquired from Hyde’s Book II or its equiv¬ alent. All students are required to complete and pass a satis¬ factory examination on the work of each course or its equiv¬ alent before entering upon that of the course next above. Stu¬ dents making a grade of less than 70 on the work of the Fall Term will not be continued in the class during the Spring Term, but may take the class next below. Course 1.—Grammar reviewed. Elementary Composition, Scott and Denny. Classics for study in class or for parallel reading: Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress; Franklin’s Auto¬ biography ; Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner; Eowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal; Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. The emphasis in this class will be given to inflections, sen¬ tence structure and analysis. The student will be graded strictly on spelling, capitalization and the punctuation of ordinary English prose. Course 2.—Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition and Rhet¬ oric. The following classics will be read: The Old Testament (See Bible Course 1) ; Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; Tenny¬ son s Gareth and Lynette, Launcelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur; Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities; Eliot’s Silas Mar- ner, or Gaskell’s Cranford. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work. Course 3. Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition and Rhet¬ oric, Part II; Lockwood’s Lessons in English. Classics to be