High School Cadet Corps - Adjutant Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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V' 1 ii T LSC I ,. A,-:WV -T High School Cadets at the Inauguration of President McKinley, 1897 Colonel Frank C. Daniel, in Command CADETS AT MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL By FRANKLIN LANGFORD, Member of Senior Class of 1933 VER Eve hundred of the eighteen hundred cadets in the brigade belong to the sec- ond regiment at McKinley High School. Nine companies and a staff of forty-five are the source of much pride to us, for that is the larg- est enrollment in the corps. But more pride is taken in another feature of our regiment. lt is the disciplined but democratic organization, which is peculiar to our school alone. The McKinley unit has had its share of the red ribbons, the battalion streamers, the best ser- geant's medals: and the colonel of the brigade has held sway at McKinley seven times: but that part of it has not been stressed. Instead of clamoring, Join the cadets, where you will re- ceive a training that can't be equalled in dis- cipline, self-control, and initiative, and then forgetting it to win a competition by expedi- ential means, the platform is really adhered to, with special emphasis on the development of initiative. It will be asked, though, who manages such a large organization? The problems arising from such a one must be a burden on some overworked faculty adviser or military instructor. But the faculty adviser and the military instructor let Forty-seven the officers solve their own problems, and they, in turn, consult the men in the ranks. When an important question is to be decided, the officers meet with the faculty adviser, and it is suggested that the men decide. The reg- iment is formed, marched into the auditorium, the question is explained, and a vote taken. The regiment has decided what its policy will be, and the principal, if it is possible, supports the decision. For another instance, the officers discover that the correct method of executing a movement is not exactly the way the cadets have been doing it. Theirs was an easier way but not the way. They gather around a drill manual, chart the correct method, present it to their units, and so impress the judges at the next competition in- volving that movement that they win Hrst place. With such a system, fellows drill because they want to, officers study and plan because they are forming and developing an organization of their own, the success or failure of which de- pends on them. And they are developing themselves into men who will be industrious, self-reliant, and suc- cessful.

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MR. FRANK C. DANIEL Principal of McKinley High School Captain of Company B, Central, 1896: Colonel of the Washington High School Cadet Corps, 1897

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