Admiral Farragut Academy - Buccaneer Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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OUR NEW AND MODERN GYMNASIUM BUILDING A CLASS IN CALISTHENICS

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THE DORMITORY ROOMS ARE LIGHT AND AIRY Insurance: The first half of this course is devoted to the study of life insurance and the second half of the semester the student studies various types of property insurance. The pure pose of the course is to give the student a thorough understanding of the principles of insurance and its practical applications. Text: Huebner, Life Insurance and Property Insurance. PHYSICAL TRAINING AND ATHLETICS This department is administered jointly by the Commandant, Medical Oiiicer, and the Direcf tor of Physical Training and Athletics. The mission of the department is threefold and consists of: fa, The prescription and fulfillment of remedial training necessary to correct the individual posture and physical setfup. fbj The building up of bodily vigor and endurance. fcj The developing of proficiency in sports. Upon entrance the cadet is subjected to a thorough medical and physical examination. The com' mon ailments such as enlarged tonsils, adenoids, eye defects, incipient sinusitis, albuminuria, defective posture, etc., are here discovered and immediate measures prescribed for their correction. One hour daily is devoted to physical training and athletic participation. The latter, of course, is apart from the time allotted for recreational athletics during which the cadet may par' ticipate in any sport of his liking. The Admiral Farragut Academy especially sponsors intramural sports, both land and water, in which all cadets have an opportunity to compete. Athletic equipment will be supplied to varsity teams only. PAGE THIR'1 Y'fFOUR

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THE JUNIOR SCHOOL The advantages of naval training having been proved by the success of the Admiral Farragut Academy, it has been considered logical to make these advantages available to younger boys be' tween the ages of ten and fifteen. The type of education which a young boy receives during this formative period in his life is of paramount importance and deserves the parents' most careful consideration. For these reasons, the Admiral Farragut Academy has organized a junior School department which, although an integral part of the Senior School, forms a separate group with its own class rooms, its own naval organization, its own athletics and boats. Boys in the Junior School are quartered by themselves in a wing of the dormitory and lead their own existence quite apart from the older cadets. The Director of the junior School is a specialist in the training and education of prefadolesf cent youth and he is assisted by a staff of special officers who closely supervise every phase of the boys' activities. In order to make the change from home to school as natural and as comfortable as possible, every effort is made to make boys feel at home. Their instructors are ever ready to act as parents in advising youngsters concerning little intimate details which present themselves daily. Being constantly in contact with other boys their own age, gives to each youngster a spirit of selffreliance and a community consciousness which will be of untold value to him in his later life. We find that many boys entering our Senior School are not well prepared to meet our stand- ards, but when a boy finishes our junior School he is so imbued with the spirit of Farragut Academy, with its methods and ideals, that he is able to enter the Senior School as a natural course. There is no abrupt change, no break, and he is fully prepared to carry on and to do his best work from the very beginning. The junior School includes the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The course of study, which gives a thorough preparation in the grammar school branches, extends over a period of four years but boys with proper preparation are admitted at any time into any one of the grades. T . ,,.. , . i . ., ' I I ' .. r- . . , . f . :L aff- , f E, x - , 5 HIM ' .. ' ar a .. , 2' -02:-V V ' '-f--F ' - A -f ' 7' ' tr-f , ., V. 3 ., wg-- ?32af5ff'w', ' ' HM- rx.--13f.:.'1.j , V-gg. V. is 1 fs, :H ' U '.' xr . - -' . -G -ii L f 7 ' f M- W AROUND THE BUOY PAGE 'T'HIR'T'YfSIX