Catalog of Horner Military School . s expected in the dining hall. Religious Life The school is strictly Christian, but by no means sec-tarian. Every boy is required to be present in chapelat daily morning and evening prayers, and on Sundaymorning to attend Sunday School and services at thechurch designated by his parents. Nothing is left undoneto make Sunday a restful, cheerful, happy, worshipfulday. Location The school is located on an eminence known as Hor-ner Hill, in the suburbs of the town of Oxford, aboutforty-five miles north of Raleigh and one hundred andtwenty miles south of Richmond
Catalog of Horner Military School . s expected in the dining hall. Religious Life The school is strictly Christian, but by no means sec-tarian. Every boy is required to be present in chapelat daily morning and evening prayers, and on Sundaymorning to attend Sunday School and services at thechurch designated by his parents. Nothing is left undoneto make Sunday a restful, cheerful, happy, worshipfulday. Location The school is located on an eminence known as Hor-ner Hill, in the suburbs of the town of Oxford, aboutforty-five miles north of Raleigh and one hundred andtwenty miles south of Richmond. A more beautiful andsuitable location could not be found. Oxford is on theSouthern Railway, in the hill country of North Carolina,and is over six hundred feet above the sea level. It is alsoreached by the Seaboard Air Line Railway from allpoints north and south. Climate The climate is delightful and healthfulness school is far from the land of perpetual summer,as the thermometer often registers below freezing during. HORNER MILITARY SCHOOL. 13 the winter, and the first killing frost occurs about thefirst of November. There are comparatively few days,however, during the winter, when out-door exercises cannot be engaged in with benefit to boys. Campus The Horner School campus has unusual is elevated, roomy and nearly level. Between the bar-racks and the athletic field on the southwest side of thebarracks and next to town are two splendid tennis athletic field and parade grounds are within onehundred feet of the barracks. The football and base-ball fields are surrounded by a graded quarter-mile run-ning track. The front porches of the founders residenceand the principals residence overlook the athletic field. Buildings The present main building was constructed in 1891and enlarged in 1901. It was planned by the principalafter he had lived in barracks with the boys and actedas the school disciplinarian many years, and is adaptedto the requi
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