Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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Hmitiffoduietory N AN introduction to this volume, Castle Heights would ask the privilege of suggesting the foundation of a mutual understand- ing, upon which there may be erected, if you choose, the conception of a healthful and useful and happy school home for your boy. As a chief stone of the corner of this foundation the Academy would place its own responsibility to you. It proposes in this book to talk to you about your boyg and in so doing, in expressing a willingness to receive him as a charge, it offers to accept whole-heartedly and genuinely the grave responsibility of doing for him the very utmost that all its wisdom and experience can produce. Sincerely and honestly it pledges its best efforts to do for him what you, as an affectionate mother, as an ambitious and devoted father, would have done for him-would do for him your- selves, did opportunity and circumstances permit. Yet there is another stone in this corner, and one which the Academy would be unfair to itsebf and to you, if it did not call to your thoughUut attention. That is, your responsibility to the Academy. There is built up at Castle Heights a painstaking and carefully planned system by means of which wonderful things may be ac- complished for the normal boy. We know of no other method that will accomplish so much. Yet even this structure of ours, as circum- spect as we may be, as watchful, as resourceful, will inevitably to some degree disintegrate unless the parents of each and every cadet give the Academy the same whole-hearted co-operation towards the upbuilding of the boy that the Academy pledges itself to give the parents. Too much money to spend-ruinous. Consent to drop subjects because they seem hard-weakening. Permission to open credit accounts or to draw checks and sign drafts indiscriminately-demoralizing. Assumption of the attitude that the cadet's duty to the Academy is a matter exclusively between the Academy and the cadet-damage ing. Requesting furloughs except under extreme and most unusual circumstances-destructive of the very spirit of responsibility and routine that is the crowning virtue of military school life. 6