Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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16 PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL Course Preparatory for College First Year Periods Per Week Units Grammar, Composition and Literature... 5 1 First Year Latin . 5 1 Spelling and Defining... 5 Arithmetic Completed (Fall Term) and Algebra Begun (Spring Term) . 5 General Science . 5 1 Second Year Composition, Rhetoric and English Literature.... 5 1 Review First Year Latin—Caesar, 4 Books. 5 1 Algebra, Wentworth’s New School . 5 1 Third Year Rhetoric and English Literature . 5 1 Virgil and Latin Composition. 5 1 Wentworth’s Complete Algebra. 5 1 Bible . 5 1 French I. 5 1 Fourth Year Plane Geometry. 5 1 French II . 5 1 History of the United States. 5 1 Composition and Literature. 5 1 Select two units from electives found below. This will make a total of seventeen units for graduation. Electives Cicero, Ancient History, Mediaeval and Modern History, His¬ tory of England, Physiology, Botany, Civics.

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LAWNDALE, NORTH CAROLINA 15 The following courses are offered: 1. General Science—Caldwell and Eikenberry, or some equivalent text; one-half unit. 2. Botany—Bergen’s Elements of Botany, including Key and Flora for Southern States, or some equivalent text; one-half unit. 3. Physiology and Hygiene, some standard text suited to High Schools; one-half unit. 4. Agriculture, some standard text of High School grade; one- half unit. Music The music department will be in charge of those who are thor¬ oughly proficient in this branch, and no pains will be spared to make this part of the work equal to any other department of the school. This course is broad and thorough. The school recognizes the need of the best instruction for beginners, as well as for the more advanced pupils, thus insuring a good foundation. Public recitals are given during the term. In these all the students of music take part. They are thus stimulated to greater effort and become accustomed to appearing in public. The aim of this department is a thorough foundational training. The student is taught to work and also to appreciate the difference between practicing and playing, and between music and so-called music. Certificates or diplomas in music will be given to those who complete the four-year course in music, provided they have com¬ pleted the junior or third year work in the literary department of Piedmont High School or of some school of similar grade. Domestic Science A department of Domestic Science has been added and a com¬ petent teacher has been secured. A class-room for this depart¬ ment will be properly equipped by the opening of the session.

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LAWNDALE, NORTH CAROLINA 17 Literary Societies and Medals The Musigmarhonian and the Pierian Literary Societies for young men meet each week for debate, declamation 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 the literary society of their choice. It would be hard to estimate the importance of this work in imparting knowledge of parliamentary law, stimulating histori¬ cal research and cultivating the habit of general reading. In fact, some of the larger colleges are already considering the ad¬ visability of making literary society work count toward the win¬ ning of a degree. Why not? These society meetings are always attended by the principal and by other teachers who act as critics. Each society offers a gold medal to that member making the greatest improvement in oratory and debate during the year. The Musigmarhonian Improvement Medal was awarded to Mr. Ralph Cottle, of Onslow County, N. C. The Pierian Improvement Medal was awarded to Mr. Fletcher Sain, of Cleveland County, N. C. The Emersonian Literary Society for young women meets once each week for the reading of various selections, the study of the lives of authors, for recitations, for the reading of original essays, and debate. The meetings are always attended by one or more of the lady teachers who, by friendly criticism and advice, en¬ courage the students to greater zeal in the work. A gold medal awarded by the Emersonian Literary Society for improvement in reciting was won by Miss Lillian Hoffman, of South Carolina. The Schenck Scholarship Medal, awarded to that member of