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Herkiomen School Heunsburg, Heuna.
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1915-1916
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Perkiomen School Bulletin
Issued quarterly by The Perkiomen School at Pennsburg, Pa.
Entered as second-class matter January 3, 1916 at the post-office at Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, under the act of August 24, 1912.
VOL. 1 JUNE, 1916 NO. 2
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Gc 974.802 P385c 1915-16
Catalogue of Perkiomen School
Perkiomen School Bulletin
Issued quarterly by The Perkiomen School at Pennsburg, Pa.
Entered as second-class matter January 3, 1916 at the post-office at Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, under the act of August 24, 1912.
VOL. I JUNE, 1916 NO. 2
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PRINCIPAL'S RESIDENCE
JEANNETTE COTTAGE
JUNIOR HOUSE
LIBRARY
GYMNASIUM
MAIN BUILDING (SOUTH SIDE)
STUDENT BODY, 1915-1916
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CATALOGUE
OF
PERKIOMEN SCHOOL
FOR THE YEAR 1915-1916
PENNSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity.
-Daniel Webster.
Board of Trustees
MICHAEL K. GILBERT, President . .. .. Pennsburg, Pa. PROF. JAMES M. ANDERS, M.D., PH.D., Vice-President 1605 Walnut St., Phila.
GEORGE K. BRECHT, EsQ., Secretary, . Norristown, Pa.
EDWIN K. SCHULTZ, Treasurer
Boyertown, Pa.
DANIEL M. ANDERS
Norristown, Pa.
REV. EDWIN S. ANDERS
Lansdale, Pa., R. R.
J. FOSTER BARBER
. Hazleton, Pa.
JOSEPHUS K. GERHARD Clayton, Pa.
REV. NATHANIEL B. GRUBB 715 Berks St., Phila.
REV. HARVEY K. HEEBNER 2509 N. 30th St., Phila.
HON. WILLIAM D. HEEBNER Lansdale, Pa.
JOHN G. HERSH, M.D.
East Greenville, Pa.
REV. LEVI S. HOFFMAN Lansdale, Pa.
REV. ELMER E. S. JOHNSON, PH.D. . Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
MAXWELL H. KRATZ, EsQ.
1135 Commercial Trust
Bldg., Phila.
REV. OSCAR S. KRIEBEL, D.D.
Pennsburg, Pa.
HIRAM A. KRIEBLE
. Center Square, Pa.
DANIEL Y. MESCHTER
East Greenville, Pa.
AMOS H. SCHULTZ Worcester, Pa.
EDWIN H. SCHULTZ 1932 Erie Ave., Phila.
ELMER K. SCHULTZ, A.B.
. Jenkintown, Pa.
JOHN H. SCHULTZ
Norristown, Pa.
WILLIAM H. SEIPT
Worcester, Pa.
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Advisory Board
HON. HAMPTON L. CARSON Philadelphia, Pa.
HON. WILLIAM COLEMAN FREEMAN Lebanon, Pa.
HON. BAYARD HENRY Philadelphia, Pa.
ALBA B. JOHNSON Philadelphia, Pa.
J. LEVERING JONES, EsQ. Philadelphia, Pa.
AMOS C. MILLER, EsQ.
Chicago, Il1.
HON. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER Philadelphia, Pa.
M. TAYLOR PYNE, A.B.
New York, N. Y.
COL. HARRY C. TREXLER Allentown, Pa.
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The Faculty
REV. OSCAR S. KRIEBEL, A.M. (Oberlin College), B.D. (Oberlin Theological Seminary), D.D. (Franklin and Marshall Col- lege), (Student at University of Berlin and at University of Pennsylvania), Principal.
JAMES D. STOVER, A.M. (Princeton University), Vice-Principal, Latin and Greek.
JEAN M. MATHESON (Emerson College of Oratory, Boston Uni- versity, and Harvard University), Preceptress,
Expression and English.
CLARENCE L. S. RABY, B.S. (Pennsylvania College), (Student at Chautauqua Physical Training Normal School and at Uni- versity of Pennsylvania), Physical Director and Athletic Coach,
Higher Mathematics and Physics.
IRWIN W. KEHS (Muhlenberg College and Ursinus College), English and Mathematics.
MRS. SUE SCHULTZ GOTTSCHALL, A.B. (Oberlin College), French and Latin.
H. FAUSTIN HOOVER (Pennsylvania State College; Student at Cornell University ),
Chemistry and Agriculture.
MARVIN G. SCHULTZ, A.B. (Oberlin College), German.
REV. ROBERT J. GOTTSCHALL, A.B. (University of Pennsylvania ), A.M. (Columbia University), B.D. (Union Theological Sem- inary),
History.
JOHN C. MYERS, B.S. (Pennsylvania College), (Student at Chau- tauqua Physical Training Normal School),
Commercial Course.
CHARLES B. WEIRICH (New England Conservatory of Music; Pupil of Herbert Wilber Greene, New York), Piano and Harmony.
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MRS. ELEANOR POTTER WEIRICH (Bucknell School of Music; Pupil of Herbert Wilber Greene, New York), Voice Culture.
DAVID E. CROLL (Broad Street Conservatory of Music, Phila- delphia ),
Violin and Mandolin.
ELLEN K. HEEBNER (McDowell School, Philadelphia), Sewing.
LOUISE B. WILSON (Pratt Institute), Home Economics.
REV. GEORGE W. LUTZ, A.B. (Franklin and Marshall College), History, Civics, Grammar.
REV. CALVIN M. DE LONG, A.B. (Franklin and Marshall College), Latin and German.
JACOB C. MESSNER, A.B. (Franklin and Marshall College), Latin and Methods of Teaching.
WILLIAM E. TROUTMAN, A.B. (Franklin and Marshall College), English and Science.
HENRY L. SNYDER, Ph.B. (Muhlenberg College), English and Science.
ELIZABETH S. HERBEIN (American Commercial School, Allen- town, Pa.), Secretary to Principal, Evening Commercial Course.
OSCAR S. SCHULTZ, Financial Secretary.
F. FRIEDA KRIEBEL, A.B. (Oberlin College), Librarian.
WILLIAM F. XANDER (Perkiomen Seminary), Assistant to the Financial Secretary.
RUTH M. ORTT (Perkiomen Seminary), Stenographer.
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ANNUAL CALENDAR
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School Calendar
Summer Term, 1916
Monday, June 26 Summer Term opens.
Saturday, August 12. . Summer Term closes.
First Semester, 1916-17
Tuesday, September 19. First Semester opens.
Thursday, November 30. Thanksgiving Day.
Saturday, December 9 Adelphian Literary Society Anniversary.
Friday, December 22 Holiday Recess begins.
Monday, January 8.
Holiday Recess ends.
Saturday, January 20. Philomathean Literary Society Anniversary. Wednesday to Friday, Janu-
ary 31, February I and 2 ... Examinations.
Friday, February 2 First Semester closes.
Second Semester, 1917
Monday, February 5. Second Semester opens.
Saturday, March 3 Inter-Society Debate.
Friday, March 30
Easter Recess begins.
Monday, April 9 Easter Recess ends.
Tuesday, April 10. Spring Term opens.
Thursday, April 26. Annual Prize Speaking Contest.
Saturday, May 26. Annual Interscholastic Track Meet.
Wednesday to Friday, June 6-8. Examinations.
Sunday, June 10. Baccalaureate Sermon.
Monday, June II. Music-Expression Graduation Exercises.
Tuesday, June 12 Class Day and Alumni Exercises.
Wednesday, June 13. Graduation Exercises.
Thursday, June 14.
Second Semester closes.
First Semester, 1917-18
Tuesday, September 18 .
.. First Semester opens.
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MAIN BUILDING
The Perkiomen School
BRIEF HISTORY
Perkiomen Seminary was founded in 1875 by Rev. C. S. Wieand, of Pottstown, Pa., and was successfully conducted under his management for ten years. After the founder left the teach- ing profession to assume the regular duties of the ministry, the Seminary frequently changed hands, and for various reasons had a somewhat discouraging career, until it was found necessary to close its doors for lack of sufficient patronage. In the spring of 1892 the General Conference of the Schwenkfelder Church pur- chased the property, remodeled the building, and in the fall of 1892 again opened the doors of the Seminary to the public, with Rev. O. S. Kriebel as Principal.
The school opened under its present management with nine- teen students and four instructors and was conducted especially to meet local needs. It grew rapidly from a local institution to an institution which attracted students not only from all parts of Pennsylvania, but from more distant sections of the country, and even from foreign countries. The total number of students en- rolled since the opening day has been three thousand two hundred and fifty, coming from eighteen different states of the Union and from twelve foreign countries, including Canada, Cuba, Porto Rico, China, Korea, Colombia, Spain, Armenia, Russia, Greece, Austria, and Italy. The number of graduates has almost reached the thousand mark and more than seven hundred have been pre- pared for college. These students have attended a hundred and fourteen higher institutions of learning, among which are num- bered the best colleges and universities, technical schools, and professional schools in the country, and according to statistics
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which have recently been carefully compiled, they have made a record for scholarship and general ability at these institutions out of all proportion to their numbers.
With the growth in enrollment necessarily came the need for more room and equipment. In 1895 the Main Building was erected, adjoining the so-called Old Building so as to make one continuous structure. The Gymnasium was built in 1905, which also afforded additional dormitory room. In June, 1912, the school celebrated its twentieth anniversary, with delegates present at the exercises from twenty leading colleges and universities. Upon this occasion was announced the completion of the Library Fund, which meant the erection of a $25,000 Carnegie Library, and in November, 1913, the new Library was dedicated with appropriate exercises. In addition to these buildings, the school has the use of several dwelling houses as extra accommodation for teachers and students.
In response to a well-defined demand for separate schools for boys and girls of secondary school age, the Board of Trustees, at a meeting held in May, 1916, unanimously decided to change the plan of the school by providing for the girls in a separate cottage and thus devote all the rooms in the Main Building and in the Gymnasium to the use of the boys, making virtually two separate schools. Provision was made at the same time for the accommo- dation of a limited number of younger boys in a Junior House, with an instructor and his family. In addition, it was decided to change the name of the school from "Perkiomen Seminary" to "Perkiomen School."
LOCATION
Perkiomen School is situated in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pa. Pennsburg and East Greenville, forming practically one town, have a population of about three thousand. Pennsburg is twenty miles south of Allentown and forty-eight miles north of Philadelphia. The School is only a few minutes' walk from the Pennsburg Station on the Perkiomen Railroad, the trains of
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which run between the Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, and Allentown, where it is easy to make connections with the Phila- delphia and Reading, the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley. The School is located in the beautiful Perkiomen Valley near the Perkiomen Creek, where excellent opportunity is afforded for swimming, skating and fishing.
AIM
The express purpose of the school is to adequately prepare young men for college, technical school, or professional school. With this end in view strong emphasis is placed upon the mastery of each subject and upon the formation of correct habits of study. The school, however, recognizes the fact that knowledge alone, without integrity of character and high ideals, is undesirable, and so every effort is made to develop character and breadth of vision and thus lay the foundations for leadership and service. A per- sonal interest is taken in each student for the promotion of his intellectual, moral, and physical welfare.
BUILDINGS
THE MAIN BUILDING
The Main Building, including the so-called Old Building, con- sists of a square central part with two wings, presenting an unbroken front of 187 feet. This building contains the offices, reception rooms, recitation rooms, chapel, dining-room, music rooms, study hall, suites of rooms for teachers, and sixty dormi- tory rooms for students. The latter rooms are large, all having double windows and double closets. The building is heated throughout by steam and lighted with electricity.
THE GYMNASIUM
The Gymnasium is a commodious building 102 feet long and 45 feet wide. The large main room is equipped with apparatus suitable for all kinds of calisthenics and basketball. Because of
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its size, this room is frequently used as an auditorium. The offices of the Physical Director, the examining rooms, and the trophy room are also on the first floor, and the second floor con- . tains fourteen dormitory rooms. In the basement are located shower baths, lockers, the chemical laboratory, and the cooking laboratory.
THE LIBRARY
The Library is of dark red brick with stone trimmings. The large well-lighted reading room contains a well-chosen assortment of books and periodicals especially adapted to the needs of a secondary school. The Commercial Department occupies half of the basement, and the physical laboratory the other half. The entire second floor is devoted to historical purposes, including an historical library and museum, as also an herbarium.
JEANNETTE COTTAGE
Jeannette Cottage, the home of the girls, is a large brick dwelling-house containing reception rooms, dining-room, and accommodations for thirty girls. The dormitory rooms are large, well-lighted and well-heated. With its long porch in front and the side verandas on both the first and second stories, and sur- rounded by an extensive lawn adorned with flowers and shrub- bery, the cottage affords a very attractive place of residence.
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GYMNASIUM
College Preparatory Courses
Four courses are offered to prepare students for college, pro- fessional school, or technical school, viz: the Classical, Latin Scientific, Scientific and Academic Courses. The successful com- pletion of any of these courses will entitle the student to at least fifteen units of entrance credit to any certificating college. By a unit of credit is meant the continued study of a certain subject for one year of at least thirty-six weeks, with five forty-minute recitation periods per week. Rather liberal substitutions are per- mitted for graduation in any of these courses, provided the fol- lowing subjects are offered : two years of algebra ; ancient history ; plane geometry; all the English; and two years of a language other than English.
THE CLASSICAL COURSE includes four years of Latin, three years of Greek, one year of German, English, history and mathe- matics. This course prepares a student for admission without condition to the classical course in our best colleges and univer- sities, and will fit a student for admission to the Sophomore Class of some colleges.
THE LATIN SCIENTIFIC COURSE is intended as a preparatory course for those who do not take Greek but expect to enter col- lege for a liberal course in arts or science. It offers the same amount of work .in Latin, English and history as the Classical Course does. Physics, German or French, and solid geometry and trigonometry are required.
THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE is intended primarily as a preparation for admission to the technical courses, such as civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering, agriculture, mining, etc. Special atten- tion is given to mathematics and science. Three years of German and two years of French are required.
THE ACADEMIC COURSE offers a broad general training for those who do not expect to enter college and also affords excellent preparation for a course in medicine or dentistry. It includes three years of Latin, two years of German, one year of French, English literature, English history, and one science, but not the higher mathematics.
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The Classical Course
PREPARATORY YEAR
FIRST SEMESTER
SECOND SEMESTER
English I
English II
History I
History II
Algebra I
Algebra II
Latin I
Latin II
Physical Geography
Physiology
SUB-JUNIOR YEAR
English III
English IV
History III
History IV
Algebra III
Algebra IV
Latin III
Latin IV
Greek I
Greek II
JUNIOR YEAR
English V
English VI
Algebra V
Algebra VI
Latin V
Latin VI
Greek III
Greek IV
German I
German II
SENIOR YEAR
English VII
English VIII
Geometry I
Geometry II
Latin VII
Latin VIII
Greek V
Greek VI
N. B .- For description of studies outlined in this and following courses, see pages 18-26.
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The Latin Scientific Course
PREPARATORY YEAR
FIRST SEMESTER
English I
History I
History II
Algebra I
Algebra II
Latin I
Latin II
Physical Geography
Physiology
SUB-JUNIOR YEAR
English III
English IV
History III
History IV
Algebra III
Algebra IV
Latin III
Latin IV
German I
German II
JUNIOR YEAR
English V
English VI
Algebra V
Algebra VI
Latin V
Latin VI
German III
German IV
Geometry I
Geometry II
SENIOR YEAR
English VII
Latin VII
Solid Geometry Physics I
English VIII Latin VIII
Trigonometry Physics II
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SECOND SEMESTER
English II
Scientific Course
PREPARATORY YEAR
FIRST SEMESTER
SECOND SEMESTER
English I
English II
History I
History II
Algebra I
Algebra II
German I
German II
Physical Geography
Physiology
SUB-JUNIOR YEAR
English III
English IV
History III
History IV
Algebra III
Algebra IV
German III
German IV
Agriculture I
Agriculture II
JUNIOR YEAR
English V
English VI
Algebra V
Algebra VI
Chemistry I
Chemistry II
Geometry I
Geometry II
French I or German V
French II or German VI
SENIOR YEAR
English VII Solid Geometry
Physics I
French III or French I
English VIII
Trigonometry
Physics II
French IV or French II
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Academic Course
PREPARATORY YEAR
FIRST SEMESTER
English I
History I
History II
Algebra I
Algebra II
Latin I
Latin II
Physiology
SUB-JUNIOR YEAR
English III
English IV
History III
History IV
Algebra III
Algebra IV --
Latin III
Latin IV
German I
German II i
JUNIOR YEAR
English V
English VI
Latin V
Latin VI
German III
German IV
English Literature
American Literature
History V
History VI
SENIOR YEAR
English VII
Geometry I
Chemistry I
French I
English VIII Geometry II Chemistry II
French II
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Physical Geography
SECOND SEMESTER
English II
Description of Studies
ENGLISH
The work in this department has three distinct ends in view : first, a knowledge of the structure of the language; second, excel- lence of expression ; third, the cultivation of permanent taste for the best literature. The courses in grammar are thorough and are made practical by the grammatical study of literature. A mere knowledge of the language, however, without ability to use it, is valueless. Great emphasis, therefore, is laid upon training in composition. It is made supplementary to the grammar course, is the basis of the study of rhetoric, and is required in connection with the work in literature.
ENGLISH I-II .- English Grammar. This course consists of a thorough drill in the fundamentals of English grammar. Special attention is given to the methods for enlarging and correcting the vocabulary. Easy selec- tions from English literature are read and discussed in class. Weekly themes are required to be written, are corrected, and returned to the pupil. There is a constant aim to put into actual working practice the technical principles of grammar. Steps in English (Book Two).
ENGLISH III-IV .- Composition and Elementary Rhetoric. The aim of this year's work is to lead onward from the English Grammar course. Special attention is given to the application of the fundamentals of Eng- lish Grammar, especially to word-study, the six types of sentences, and the use of punctuation and the paragraph in written work. The four forms of composition are studied and themes illustrating these are written, criti- cised and corrected. The authors studied are: Longfellow, Whittier and Lowell. This includes a knowledge of their lives, a careful study of their longer poems, as Evangeline, Snow-Bound, and The Vision of Sir Laun- fal; also the reading and memorizing of parts of their shorter poems, so as to insure an acquaintance with their principal writings; Elementary English Composition, Scott and Denney.
ENGLISH V-VI .- Rhetoric and Composition. This is the regular Junior English, consisting of a thorough course in rhetoric and composition. The paragraph is the study-unit, and a careful and systematic study is made of the laws governing unity, coherence, and emphasis in paragraph de-
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velopment. Much time is spent upon the rhetorical structure of the sen- tence, English usage, and the derivation of words. Description, narration, exposition, argumentation, persuasion, and composition in verse are each taken up in a formal manner. Themes are required twice a week to illustrate some particular phase of the work. Elements of Rhetoric and Composition, Canby and Opdycke.
ENGLISH VII-VIII .- English Classics. This course is devoted to the study of the required English classics; viz, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Merchant of Venice; Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas; Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, or Stevenson's Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey; Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Goldsmith's Deserted Village, or Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Book IV; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with Amer- ica; Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Scott's Lady of the Lake; Scott's Ivanhoe, or Stevenson's Treasure Island; Macaulay's Life of Sam- uel Johnson; Tennyson's Idylls of the King; Eliot's Silas Marner; Irving's Sketch Book; and Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal. One day a week is given to theme work, the subjects being taken from the book under study.
ENGLISH LITERATURE .- This course is intended to give the students a knowledge of the English writers from the earliest times to the present, and to acquaint them with the best from the English writings. The stu- dent is given a clear idea of: the influence of the early races on the language; the evolution of the language; the rise of the drama; the de- velopment of the modern novel; and the principal writings of each age. Every week, themes requiring library reading are written and read in the class. The students read, for fuller accounts, topics from the literary works of Green, Brooke, Taine, and Manly, in conjunction with Halleck's English Literature. First Semester and through March in Second Semester.
AMERICAN LITERATURE .- This is regarded as a branch of the history of English literature. The general field of American literary history from earliest colonial times to the present is covered, and parallel English literature is continually brought to mind. The plan of the work is the same as that under English literature. Halleck's History of American Literature. From April to the end of the Second Semester.
HISTORY
In this department it is the aim not so much to teach what has happened in the past as to explain how institutions came to be as they are. All the courses are based on textbooks, which the stu- dents are required to study carefully ; but the textbooks represent only part of the work done in each course. A special effort is made to put the student in the proper attitude toward historical work, and to teach him methods of historical study. To this end
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the textbook is supplemented by informal lectures and collateral reading, and the student is required to use the library and to do a certain amount of written work. This written work is of such a nature as to require a selection and a comparison of events and thus develop an ability to grasp essentials which cannot come from any amount of mere memorizing of facts.
HISTORY I-II .- United States History and Civics. The periods of dis- covery, colonization, revolution, and the national era are carefully studied. Maps are drawn, reference books are consulted, and papers on specified topics are frequently assigned. Epoch-making events are brought prom- inently before the class, with special attention as to causes and results, and some time is given to history-making events of the present day. The last twelve weeks of the course are devoted to a study of Civil Govern- ment, including the historical growth of the Union and the Constitution, a careful study of the Constitution, and a description of the actual work- ing of the government under the Constitution. Muzzey's American His- tory. Philip's Nation and State.
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