THE fiR^VARD NEWS, BP.EVAS D. NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY. MAY 26, 1222
WONDERFUL PROGRESS OF BRQ
YARD INSTITUTE.
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ted. Plastering Avas in progress, and
doors, floors, windows, heating and
•cooking apparatus were entirely
wanting. i
School was begun however on Octo
\>er 20, 1903, under the new control.
The chapel in the new building was
half floored when the carpenter work
was suspended for the opening exer
cises. When Miss Bennett came for
mally to open school she found that
the property which the building
stood had never been pr-i.} for, and
she collected funds to get a clear
deed to the property after she avrlv.
ed in Brevard.
Ivlr. Bishop remained in charcre for
four years. After the first year, he,
too, found his building too small, and
added a new floor, practically doub
ling the capacity of the dormitory by
dormer windows in the roof. He thus
secured rooms of the same floor size
as those on the second floor, though
the air space was not quite so larj^c.
The school grew steadily under hi?
administration. It consisted of aca
demic, normal, music, commercial
and domestic art departments, and in
1906—1907 there was a total enroll
ment of 195 pupils, five states being
represented.
In that year the Woman’s Home
Mission Society enlarged its work in
the Vashti Blasingame School at
Thomasville, Georgia, by acquiring a
large tobacco factory two miles from
to\vn. They needed a man of Mr.
Bishop’s ability to transform this fac
tory into an attractive school building
economies department has also been
organized and classes are taught as
called for in carpentry, printing, pho-
tograhpy, telegraphy, alt, expression,
e'lc. The enrollment for several
/ears has been limited by the capa
city of the school and it remains prac-
ically constant in the neighborhood
of 325 pupils.
In 1913 a summer school v.as :a-
augurated. It has grown slowly but
j;teadily to an enrollment of 117 pu
pils .in 1921. Since 1920 it has been
recognized as one of the county sum
mer schools under the supervision
of the State Department of Educa
tion and three of its teachers have
been paid by the State.
, Prospective Improvements
The Centenary Fund of the Me
thodist church has already provided
approximately $40,000 for Brevard
Institute. About $35,000 has been
expended in the purchase of eigty
acres of good farm and orchard land
adjoining the campus. This property
contains and unfinished brick resi
dence designed and in part construct
ed by R. H. Zachary.
It was begun on a most attractive
plan and located on one of the choic
est sites in the county, all things con
sidered. It stands on a little knoll
rising out of the valley of the French
Broad river and all around it are
the level grounds of the farm. The
slopes of the little hill are covered
with orchards which run down into
the bottom land. The house is roofed
with slate and is built of a high grade
of Statesville brick.
Three frame cottages, bams, poul
try houses and machinery shed stand
day.
Hotptal Ward
Two rooms are set apait in the
girl’s dormitory building for infir
mary purposes. One of these rooms
is furnished with hot hot and cold
water, a medicine chest, hospital in
struments and hospital beds. The
second room contains four hospilp.l
beds and is used as a ward. L'oya
needing infirmary care are giv<jn
another room on the same floor v.ii’ch
s fitted up as a temporary hosp ita!.
The head nurse. Miss Myrtle Baber
has advantage of the hospital .'iiid
Brevard physicians when cases are
at all puzzling to her, and Miss Besr-ie
Smith, registered nurse, lives in the
building though her particular work
is welfare vo:': off the campus.
For o r’: 'alir’nt a chart is made
ihowin .iporature, pulse, food
medicine, etc., until discharged.
These rt«. oi-ds are filed for the infor
mation of the physicians or for fu
ture referrnco. In addition to these
infrmary r:.cords. Miss Baber has re
cently comr/.onced taking records at
frequent ia-orvals of height, weight
and chest fxr)nnsion of each pupil.
If one is found with too little weight
for his height he is watched with par
ticular care and if necessary given
a physical examflnation. This permits
of individual advice and care and
contributes to tlie prevention of dis
ease.
PHYSICAL CULTURE: The girls
take physical culture exercises before
breakfast. Tennis courts, basket
ball and base tall grounds are pro
vided and hockey grounds and paral-
led bars are being erected this spring.
and transferred him to that place.
Mr. C.H. Trowbridge came from the
Manual Training School of Washing
ton University in St. Louis to take
charge of the Brevard School. At
that time the campus consisted of a
lot on which the school stands with
two or three acres east and west of
it; the Bishop cottage in front of the
dormitory and about three acres to
the west of that lot. Soon afterwards
the Home Mission Society purchased
seven acres from Mr. J. L. Aiken.
on the place. Half of the crop and
a considerable amount of farm ma
chinery were purchased with the
farm.
The Women’s Missionary Council,
which owns B. I., is adding to this
residence and we know it will have
more than double its capacity. The
completed biulding will be used to
house forty-eight boys and to fur
nish them with a game room, laundry
and adequate bathing facilities. A
steam boiler is being installed. It is
hoped that this dormitory will be
school
Later purchases were Carolina cot
tage from Mrs. F. M. Nicholson, the ' r?ady for occupancy when
Miller cottage, the Hudson cottage . opens in the fall,
and the MacDonald in the order { This purchase makes possible not
named. Since then, land to the south only the accomodation of a consider-
of this property has been secured' able anumber of boys, but it also
from W. L. Aiken and from Mr. and
Mrs. A. M. Verdery. This made a
compact campus of about thirty-two
acres in the edge of Brevard.
In 1914 Spencer Hall was erected
and the original frame dormitory
was veneered with brick and other-
provides a large amount of labor for
those who are industrious and attend
the work it involves. It ought to be
possible for almost any strong, ca
pable and industrious boy who does
not have he v.e responsibilities upon
him to come to Brevard and earn
Wise improved. Since that time the | his tuition as long as he wants to
boys in the school, with little outside ! stay.
help, have erected a dairy barn, seven
ty- two by forty feet, a concrete silo,
twelve feet in diameter and forty-
four feet high and a shop for wood
working machinery and electric
ight plant. In the sununer of 1921
a farm of eighty acres was purchased
from Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Clayton.
This farm adjoins the campus and
contains a handsome brick building al
most finished and three frame cot
tages with barns and other out-build-
ings. The farm contains two good
orchards and is admirably adapted
to dairy and stock raising.
Two additional departments have
been added to the original plan of
the school. Boys are now admitted
into the frame dormitories and can
be taught agriculture. A household
During the current year in addi
tion to the tasks of previous years
the institution has made a special
provision. One of these is along the
line of preventive hygiene. Hereto
fore a diet has been carefully and
scientifically planned under the su
pervision of Miss Alma Trawbridge
and Mrs. T. S. Boylan. The amount
of food stuffs served each day at
every meal has been tabulated for a
number of years, the records are on
file and computations accurately
made in order to see that the proper
amount of proteids, fats, and carbo
hydrates is correct and that a suffi-
oinet number of callories is provided
for each student. This year’s re
cord reveals an average of practically
2,500 calloiies for each person per
mXCH AND
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Meets Monday and Wednesday
Ni}?hts. Dunn’s Rock Building.
Uroad Street, Brevard, N. C.
APPLICATION FOR PARDON OF
RANSON McCALL.
Application will be made to the
Governor of North Carolina for the
pardon of Ranson McCall, convicted
at the July term 1921 of the Super
ior Court of Transylvania county for
the crime of distilling and sentenced
to the roads of Transylvania county
for a term of 24 months. All per
sons who oppose the granting of said
pardon are invited to forward their
protests to the Governor without de
lay.
This May 11th, 1922.
2-tp. H. S. McCALL.
The boys also have basket ball, ten
nis and base ball grounds, though
most of them are at work out of
doors a good part of the time that
they are not in school. Mountain
picnics are encouraged end usually
enjoyed.
New Departure in the English De-
pai'tment
The second provision has been di
vided to the Department of English
hoping that it may add the greatest
good possible in the most practical
way. In the fall all the students in
English classes observed and record
ed all the g:rammatical errors which
they heard, and these lists show the
double negative to be the most com
mon single error and a special war
has been >vaged against it. Disagree
ment of subject with verb was the
next most common error reported
and has recently been given a proper
share of attnetion. One class is now
Aiaking a similar study to determine
what improvement, if any, has been
made.
Another English class is making
a special study of attractive gems
of thought or expression in the litera
ture assigned to it. Each pupil marks
some particularly beautiful passage
each day and selects from them the
ones which are most attractive.
These gems are handed to the teach-
ed for class discussion and a second
selection is made. Such .methods
tend to increase the love and appre
ciation of good literature.
THE SCHOOL PAPER: In order
to stimulate interest in composition,
the Institute publishes a miniature
paper called “The Cricket.” Those
who are particularly interested in
this student activity are shown by
the number of items and articles
which secure admission to the Cricket
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