Culver Military Academy - Roll Call Yearbook (Culver, IN)

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DOW THRO CH THE YEAR ulver has changed a great deal since its small beginning. The grounds have grown from a mere forty acres of swampland to a beautiful campus of more than thirteen hundred acres. The corps of that y umbered K . forty-five boys, drawn almost entirely from the middle my The present corps of six hundred fifty is drawn from thirty-eig District iiikg of Columbia, Canada, the Union of South Af f -+I 0 awaii, the 4 West Indies, and five Latin American natio 1. f O The original fa lty of seven has gro 'lf o : it 1 My-ffi' eighty-five. , 4 .KO I The original ten urses have bee a ,, riculum of fifty- four subjects. e establishm .I 2, vel0Pment of three arms of ser- vice-cavalry, fantry, an ry 'K If brought military distinction. By 1905, Cu er became 1 0 Sch l, a rank not since relinquished. In the esta is i en C. training in 1920, Culver was one of I . the few sc -.Ly -.,-V ed H4 courses of instruction. Sports activities A . 1 Q U n u have become varie and intense with the organization of sixteen 0 2 varsity ng, s. ever, the aims of the institution have remained constant-that of preparing cadets for the responsibility of a democratic citizenship. -Fancy dress ball held on Washington's birthday, 19093 center left-Members of artiller I 3.6 inch field iece during drill, 19003 right-Biology class of same period: lower left-Cui: first organized fiiotball team, 1895. ll, ll