Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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wKsnrwoETD MiLrrAinr acaj xmt. » diartSy Biathematioal instramentB, etc. That ooneot moral and religious instruetioii may be given, the teachers are reqtdred to be Christiaii men, members in good stands ing of some Protestant church. The stodeats are re- qmred to attend church and Sunday school eferj Sunday in a body, accompanied by a teacher. The BiUe is read and studied daily. A gymnasium is always open for use, and the daily miiitaiy drill is as regularly requned as reci- tations, affording one of the best exercises known for physical development. AU pupils from a distance and all the teachers board and lodge in the school, in order that the influence and supervision of the teacher may be con- stantly and most successfully exercised. By this Intimate association between pupil «nd teacher, that part of a youth ' s education which is outside of the text book can be best attended to. They are shielded from evil in- fluences and taught habits of gentility, neatness and punc- tuality. The careless are required and taught how to study, and the ambitious are encouraged to greater en- deavor. The school is, as it were, one large family, in which each teacher occupies the place of a parent or an elder brother to the boys. Locstion. LexiagtOQ, Mis ()uri, is a town of five thousjind in- habitants, about forty miles east of Kansas City, and i t accessible by the Mis souri Kiver and l»y ihe Missouri I ' aoific, the Wabash, and the Santa Fe railroads, it has waterworks, gas, aud a street railway.

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n WENTWOBTIJ MIUTAKK 4tADfiMV. twelve years, md during thst time hM oosstantly improved in faeiQities and in numbers. The territory from which we hive drawn extends from Kentucky on the east to the Rooky Mountains on the west, and from Nebraska and Iowa on the north to Texas on the south. The school has steadily grown in public favor, ns our students have gone forth into public life or to disliiiL ' uish themselves in uni- versities f(U ' which wo liavf prepait J them. Such has been our sucoeijH in prepariut: yuiiiiif ruen for a nniverjiity course, that we have hven rt ' oogni .ed by several inslitii- tions in the Wost and in the ICast by offers of free schol- ar. hi[)s to the best iiu inlu ' r of tlir iri adiiatinfr classo, and to receive our jii-iiduaU ' williDut fnrllu ' r rxaininalion. The school has always Iumm) under the same niaiiaL ' t-niiMit, and the Supt ' iintcndenl has just cnnsnniniatcd a lease t f the property for thirty years lonircr, and no expeiise or lahor will be sparf- l in keepin ; abreast with the times. Extensive iin|jn) enients are now being uiadei ttuU every- thing poiuts to a prosperous future. Pfam of tiie Sdioal. It is the purpose of the pres( nt management of this school to use those methods wbioh will develop most suc- cessfully the intellectual, moral and physical powers of its students. To insure the best mental training, none hot men of liberal and thorough education and of sncoessfol experience in teaching will be employed. No exiionse has been spared in securing the best mechanical aids for in- strnotioo, mck m iMiieal and phyakal ipfmntxnnt map«,

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H WKKTWUUTH MILITAUV ACAUbMY. SitaiM on the aouthem h uS» of the MisAOuri river. It 18 onfiorpassed in heaMrfalnesB by any point in the State. Only one death ha« o enrfed among oar pa- piU slnoe the wdioors organuntaon. Lexington is well known in the Wett at an ednoational center, having, hi addition to Wentworth Militaiy Aeademy, three large and iloarishing colleges for yoang ladies. The educational advantages have attracted and retained a refined and onlti- vated class of people; and being one of the oldest and most settled towns in the State, all things conspire to . direct the minds of stadents, who assemble here from all psrts of the West, to habits of study. Counes of Study. Throeooarsesof study, the Classi cal, the Elective and the Busiuegs, are offered below, one of which tnuBt be tfiken by those who expect to gradaate. A select course differing from the above according to the wishes of par- ents, and not embnoing branches conflicting with each other, may be pursued, and certiScates will be awarded in the brandies completed. A P( st-gradaate Course of one year is also given to those who to remain with ns lonf than tha fifth year.