Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Lawndale, North Carolina 11 this an ideal spot for an educational institution of high order. But what has man done toward perfecting it ? He has given us daily communication with all the world by telephone and tele¬ graph, 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, hut 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 a nd city life, which too often blight the lives of hoys from Christian homes and blasts the hopes of their dearest friends. We are nearly one-half mile from Lawndale; thus we have 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 services at Lawn¬ dale, but at irregular intervals. These churches are only a good walk from the school. All students are required to attend at least one of these churches and Sunday Schools. Students are required to attend daily roll call, which consists of singing, read¬ ing the scriptures, and of prayer. At these services occasional short talks will be made by the Principal and others, for the purpose of encouraging the students and inciting them to higher ideals and nobler efforts. Two prayer meetings are held each week by the students, one by the girls and the other by the boys. These services are vol¬ untary, 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 is not denominational.

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Elam Hall Newton Hall

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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 struc¬ ture as can be acquired from Hyde’s Book II or its equivalent. All students are required to complete and pass a satisfactory 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 Fall Term will not be continued in the class during the Spring Term, but may take the class next below. Course 1.—Grammar reviewed. Elements of Composition, Part I. Canby and Opdycke. Classics for study in class or for parallel reading: Bunyan’s Pilgrim Progress; Franklin’s Auto¬ biography ; Irving’s Sketch Book; Shakespeare’s Merchant of Y enice. 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 Eng¬ lish prose. Course 2.—Canby and Opdycke’s Elements of Composition, Part II. The following classics will be read: The Old Testa¬ ment (See Bible Course I); Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; Ten¬ nyson’s Gareth and Lynette, Launcelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur; Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities; Eliot’s Silas Marner, or Gaskell’s Cranford; Tom Brown’s School Days. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work.