Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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14 WEMTWORTH MILITARY ACADEMY. be Qirisdan men. iii«aibers in good standing: of some Protestant ebiirch. The students are required to attend church and Sunday school every Sunday in a body, accompanied by a teacher. .The Bible is read and studied daily. A gymnasium Is always open lor use, and the daily military drill is as resfularly required as reci- tations, atlordinj? one of tlic best exercises Itnown lor jdiysical development. All pupils fruni a distance and all the leai hers board and lod e in the hcliuol. in order that the influence and supervision ot llic teacher may be constantly and most success- fully exercised. By this intimate association between pupil and • teacfaeri that part of a youth ' s edoeation which is oatMs of the text book can be best attended to. They are shielded fiom evil it B nCTB and tai lit habits of geot Ktyi nei nen and ponctwd ity. The caretesB are itx|inrcd and taught how to 8tudy a ambftioits are encouraged to greater endeavor. The school is, as it were, one faufgc fiunily, in which each teacher oooQNei die phoe of a parent or an elder brotl er to the boys. Locington, Missouri, b a town of five thousand inhabitants, about forty miles from Kansas City, and is accessible by the tiissouri River and by the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash and the Santa Fe Railroads. It has waterworks, t,ns nnd otlicr modern conveniences. Situated on the southern blutlsoi the Missouri River, it is unsurpassed in hcalthfulness by any point in the State. Lexiii on is well known in the West as an educational center, havinj, ' . in addiiion to Wcntworth Military Academy, three large and iluuru lung coUt es for young ladies. The edu-

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visable to make the school a biiarding school, and the liberality of the founder at once provided a suitable buflding. This build- ing: soon provtrtl inadequate for the increastog patronage, and Mr Went worth donated the present grounds and boikfings, then staniling. Through Ii.islcrinjj can- d the IouikIi.t and the lilx;rality ol the cilizin. ui Ltxinijton and Lalayrllc county, im|)rove- ments have been inadea the needs of the iichool have demanded. The school has steadily grown in public iiivor as its students have gone forth mto public Ufe or to distinguish themselves in univer- sties for which it prepared them. Several univeraities in the East and in the West have recognized the merit its work by oflering free scholatBhips to its graduates and to receive them without fiirther exanination. The present management has a lease of tlurty five years on the adiool, and, havii conducted it through the stmggles of its youth, feels warranted in bdle v ing that the tame sucoev wSl attend it in the fotwe as in the post Pf ai3 of tBe fiefioof . It is the purpose of the [iresent management of this school to use those methods which will develop most successfoU the ui- tellectual, mond and physical powers of the students. To insure the best mental training, none but men of liberal and thorough education and of successful expenence in teaching are employed. No expense lias been spared in securing the best mechanical aids for instruction, such as chemical ami physical apparatus, maps, charts, mathematical mslruments, etc. That correct moral and religious instruction may be given, the teachers are required to

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