Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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LAWNDALE, NORTH CAROLINA 21 Physical Exercise Ample grounds supply every demand for outdoor exercise and games. Tennis, basketball, and baseball are favorite recreations of our pupils. Expense Board is furnished on the club plan, thus securing the best board at the least possible cost. The students take their meals at the same table with the Principal and the teachers. The Prin¬ cipal and other teachers give necessary help in the preparation of lessons. Girls are constantly under the care of the teachers, of the Matron, or of the Lady Principal.

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20 PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL report showing the precise grade of scholarship, deportment, ab¬ sence from recitations and religious exercises during the term. The reports are a means of communication between teachers and parents and are of service in stimulating the pupils. Library In 1902, about two hundred books were secured as a nucleus of a library. These books were well selected and many of them were handsomely bound. In 1903 about a hundred volumes were added. From time to time others came to us by gift or by pur¬ chase. The erection of the handsome Waters’ Memorial Library build¬ ing inspired our friends with zeal for filling it with books. To this library, founded in honor of a gallant Confederate soldier, came one of the first and decidedly the largest and finest collec¬ tion of books from a Northern veteran, Mr. James E. Reynolds, of New York. Five years ago a number of students formed a library association and each paid in fifty cents as a membership fee. Some plays and lectures were given for its benefit. Alto¬ gether we have about five hundred volumes. In many homes there are books no longer valued that would be of great use to us. Such books will be gladly received by our librarian and gratefully acknowledged. Reading Room The following is a list of newspapers and periodicals that came to our reading room last year: Review of Reviews, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Jour¬ nal, Woman’s Home Companion, Charlotte Daily Observer, The Highlander, The Cleveland Star, The Progressive Farmer, The Reformed Church Standard, Charity and Children, The Tar Heel, Delineator, Pictorial Review, Current Events, The American Magazine, McClure’s, The University News Letter, The Coweta Times, Popular Science, The Youth’s Companion, The Congres¬ sional Record, The North Carolina Health Journal, Maroon and Gold, The Technician, The Wake Forest Student.

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22 PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL Board We have all the benefits of the club plan, together with home comforts. Each student bears his proportional part of the ex¬ pense, and saves whatever profit is usually made on board, thus materially lessening expense. Our method, too, prevents class distinction, which is sometimes made in schools where some stu¬ dents board in boarding houses and others at the mess hall. Here no such rivalry can exist, for teachers and students board on the same plan, and all eat in the same dining hall. The only aris¬ tocracy whch counts here is the aristocracy of brains, good con¬ duct in school and Christian living. Board will be charged for no less time than one month. In other words, if a pupil leaves school before the expiration of the first month no part of the advance board will be refunded. This is done in justice to the school from the fact that there are boys and girls who enroll and stay only a few days, or a week, and leave because of a lack of purpose, thus keeping away others who would stay throughout the session. Those wishing to pay board and tuition for the year in advance may do so, and they will re¬ ceive interest on the amount deposited. If damage is done to school property each must pay for the damage he does. If the perpetrator of the injury is not discover¬ ed the damage is to be repaired out of the general contingency fund, and each pupil will have his proportional part of his con¬ tingency fee returned.