Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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WEKTWORTM MILITMIY AOAOEMY. HISTORY. Tiic Aradcmy haii iis orip;in in «hc iJesirc nf Mr STEPHEN ' d Wevtworth to erect a monument to the memory o( hits deceased son. VViluam Wentwokth. In the year 1880 a suitable building (or • day school wu porduksad, and io September of the same year the doors were opened for ttadenta. B. L. HoBsnN. now of ihe McCormick Theolofpcal Seminary, wns chosen as Principal, and the present Superintendent was selected as his associate. In April, 1881, a charter was secured, and the school was authorized to confer such ' degrees and marks of distinction as are usually granted by literary institutbns. A board of seven tmateas was appointed consisting of members of the dlffetreot ProtestAnt churches nf LexinRton At the cm! of the first year Mr. H ii t;os retired, to enter the roinistr}-, ami the present Superintendent, who has ever since been at the head of (he school, was left in rharge. During the second year the military feature was added, making this the pfonoer of Militiiry Schools in the West. It was soon deemed advisable :o iisake the school a boarding aolioet. Ksd ibe liberality of the founder at once, provided a suitable building This building soon proved faiadcquate for the increasing patronage, and Mr Wbntwoktu donated the present grounds and bmldbigs then standing. Through the fostering cure cf the founder .nnd the lil rrnlity of the citi.Tcn : of l xington and Lafajctte county, improvements have been made as the needs of the school have demanded. The school has steadily grown in poblk favor, as its students hive gone forth into pdbUc Ufe or to disthj- Riiish themselves in univmitiB for which it prepared thent. Several universttiet in the East aad ia the West lutva reeogniaad the wsrit of Hs wof by offering vww weaauaatatB to its gradMtet, Md 21 '

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t GRADUATES— CONTINUED. R. Q. CravetM. R. It HaU. J. A. Aifderson. G. P. BlarkweU. A. L, Fallcx n. H. L. Crono. C li. Damrell. W. H. Edwofds. G. W. Fair. • W. W. Gtrr; - «»93 H. M. Moure M. J O MiiUey 1896. R. Corbett. K.iy f ' r.izier. Lemuel Hicklin F. W. UlUe. L. H. Cux. F. B. Cnie. W. W. Irel«Ki.afjr,» T. Harris, Joseph Laurie. p. H. Kirk. . S. p. Sawycrl W. G. Shelby. N. Todhunter. G. S. Tacker. J. N. Holman. A. W. Nelson. U V Carter. T. K. Catroa. R. H. Dotcher. L B. Embry. C B. Kello R. S. P. Kellogg. D, Kdbr. H. M. MoSMt H L Owen. E. A. Voii t. R. R. Wagstaff. T. R. Sbdbr. F L. Sloaber. N. T. StiiM. C. M. Tboc]k B. A. LUm. W. B. McAleater. O. F. Ormsl . H. A. Sawyer. O. R Sellers. L. D. Slusber. if. N. DelleoiL

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to recdve Uteoi wtthQtit ftntbcr exauiiotition Tiw present manageoient has a lease of thirty yean oo Itie scbooi. and havioj; conducted it ihrou ;b ihe struf gles of its youth, feeh wamated m beHeWi that the same ;uccess will attend it in the fuiiirc ;i:s i it lie pa t The career of our school, showing its steadily iucreusini ' patrona|(e» its strengthening huiil on iKf|Kilar favor, its broadening carriaitam, l«oth academic Nml military, bespeaks the merit and seriousness of its wr rk Msiablished not :i5 - fniMu i.il ouurpri-e, but us a KTatiiilous monnriient from the educational impulses of a worthy (ounijer. i( livealuday the ljiadinc; miut-ary school in the West, having braved difBcuhies which our compel iiorji. on different bases, have been unable to ttttrooont. KecognixinR the virtue of the work at Wentworth Military Axrademy, the merit of its persever- tace, its } enninenes5 as an edl ' CAtou ok vousf; mkx. the C ' lMnnion wealth of the Slme nf Missouri has |;;aioed fur the institution nationnl notice, resulting in ihc duinilof a U. S. Army officer, wliu auper- iotends our military routine, secures for os equipment i, and introduces Mcb fettoires of reguiar army life as n»y bo eeua9jtdai0d.«(MA NfS3W and feasible for a school for boy . mim or the 8c;hooi It IS the purpose i.) the prrsfnt ni.inafjcment ul this ' chonl tu use thnst? mcllioiJs which will develop most successfully the iN ' TUULiicruAL, moual. and fuvstCAu powers of the students. To insure the beat mental traininf;. none but men of liberal and tboroagh education and of soeoessfut experience in teaching are employed. Liberal expenditures have been nude io securing the best mechanical aids for Instruction, such as chemical and physical appamtos, maps, charts, mathematical instrnmentSt etc. That correct moral and religions in tructtoft may be given, the teachcr i are required to be Christian men. ntembers in gtK d standing of some ' Kvangeltcal chnvch. The students are required Io altMid Mme cbioeb and Sqodly sobooi every Sunday io a bodyt aocomiranied by a lsacb«r. Tb«