Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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20 1y E N T VV O R TH IJLITAK Y A CAP B M Y The Santa Fe TraU In a strip of country sixty miles wid« and .I5(» miles lonir, embracing the %vindings ol ' the Missouri River ncrtos Ihv State of .Mis- souri, is to be found perhaps the most re- markable ag i ' egation of educational institu- tions in the world, It foHows the old Santa Fe Trail and IWl bWR Sptljr «llNd ' e College Route The reason is not far to sedc During the first half of the Inst ccntur ' the Missouri River was the jfreal artery oi commerce and travel from St. Louis westward. St -amlK at.s carried freight and passengers and deposited them at various landinirB ak ng its turbid rounse. Thence transfiortation by wajjon and liy stage cuach was mjule Inland to county capitals and other towns in contigu- ous territory. Very naturally these towns became the seats of denominatioiial ccdleiges and of the state ' .s educati.« .«IM1 nary establishments. Most of the towns had thefr b arimtfiig t efore the days of steamboats. They were along the pioneer trails tpnriing we. lward from the Mi$uii.s.sippi. Tliey gi-cw with the passinsr years. When the bulldinir of rail- way canie these tnwnh refused t i have the iron road because the slave-owning iKipula- tions thought the railroad would offer easy means for their negroes to run away. There- fore many of those towns are off the trunk linos of railway and liave long auiierc l in- conveniences because of the blind policy oi the forefathers. It b eminently appropriate that the old trails — the Daniel Boone and tiie Santa Fe — should l e rejuvenated and made into one great and continuous highway across tite state, and that these pioneer cen- ters ..f rivii iiiitioD teJhdnd tDgjiihfV ' brt I highway. Tut. Mu ' i 1.1 A I 1 I xiNOTON lit Rbmamcasly Ur.Ai.iTiri.-L AND IT KrvaaDs a Snatfom

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t B X I N T O N . MISSOURI 19 Dnm PiMun In I ' J ' i:;, Col. V. M. Hoge, for many years connc t«l wall Kemper Mititar ' School, Kiflrncd hia position as Inspector of Accroil- iied Schoote for the University of Missouri, ■mnd was chosen as Associate l perintendent ' imd Principal of the Academy. In 1905. Capt. E. A. Hickman. Isl Cav- •Ity, U. S. Army, a graduate of this Acad- emy, of the Virginia Military Institute, and of the Gov-cmment School for Army Officers at I t l.(. ' ;ucn vorlli. as (k ' tailfd l y tho War Department as Mtlitaiy Insti-uctor. His un- tiring energy, good judgment, and interest in boys, together with his experience as an officer in the I ' nitod States Army, have been a most potciu I ' .n t ' ir m ph u-inK the Academy in the very front ranic of the military schools, of the United Stctea. ' Went worth a PasC of the NatioMl Gmi In 1889 the Acsdemy was made a Post of act, inciviMonis were made for an annual inspctiori bv State Officers and for grant- ing commiHsions, by the Uovernor of the State, to all officers and graduates of the Academy. Excepting the matter of appro- priation?, this establishes the same relations between the Academy and the State as exist between the West PoiiAM!BSSMIItsJU0itKJ and llie I ' nited States. Ww Department Details Army Officer to Wentworth In 1895 the War Dei»rtment of the United States, recognizing the work done by the Academy in its military traininjr. detailed an olficcr Irom the Regular Army aa Pro- fessor of Military Science and Taclii. and eiipplied it with ordnance and ordnance etores. This detail has continued to the present time, and supplies have been in- creaKe i until tlte school is now provided with everythhig neeeeuiy O iiiBit tstA mM- koty 4riUe Tm fiMsiT Cpars or Cmuos at Wkntwortb, Usa

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THE CLIMATE W«ntwortih is located in central climate hero is ideal for a school, since -yi it is cool M enough 1 invigor- ating and to oiTer tlio winter sports sucli as skating and sleiRrhinir, and at the same time it is mk un ' nnr.h not to sub- ject the students to the rigon of a more northern locality. TlM! e«3etscanbeout -1 A Vaq» ov siRMv LAWN til WfMtat