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Rh schools for the Christian training of young men and women. It embraces Preparatory, Normal, Collegiate and Theological departments. At the present time instruction is also given in carpentry, in tinsmithing, in shoemaking, in bricklaying for the young men, and in sewing, cooking and the care of the household for the girls. It is hoped that industrial instruction may be extended in other directions very soon.

The girls and young men are together in the recitation-room, at their meals and in occasional social reunions, but otherwise the girls' department is managed separately and in a different building. Each girl is provided with her own dressing-room, furnished with a bureau-closet, each provided with a separate lock and key. Trunks are all kept in a trunk-room. Beds stand in the dormitory just outside of each girl's dressing-room. The grounds of the school are situated on an eminence just outside the city of Raleigh and particularly well situated with regard to health and beauty. Especial care is taken of the health of the students. In order to discourage extravagant dressing and cultivate taste for neat and tasteful dress the girls wear uniform dress of dark blue.

While every effort is made by those in charge of the school to make the students happy and contented, there is yet, an earnest belief in such strictness of discipline, compliance with regular duty, vigorous work with mind and body as shall train the character and fit the students for the important work that is before them in actual life.