Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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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«