Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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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

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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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WENT WORTH MILITikRV ACAZtfiMY Ijcxiiigton 18 the connty Reat of Ijafayette Tounty. It has a population ol ' iihout (i,0(K) Mnd is remarkably well e |m|)iieJ with ex- The Cadat M WeaUrarth not lack la oppottmlty far (•tttny doaa cellent store l)iiililm)?s. puhlii ' riiifices, haiid- aome re6idence: und broad brick streets. It has excellent aystcms of electric lights, waterworks, gas, and sewerage. Some two hundred and ten feet abo ' e the river, a more beautiful und healthful lix-Mioii could scarcely be found. The view across the broad Uiaadturi RiVer vallejr, preoenta a magw niflcent physicjrraphio .study and is no tvUch is acarcely rivaled for scenic beuuty. On one of the bluffs of the river not far from where Wentv.oyiii Military Academy stands was fought the battle of Lexingt Hi which was an important battle of the late rivil War. Lexin on is an nld town and it.s |H pulatioii includes many of the oldest iiiui [nost cultured famLlies of the state. The cadets are therefore thrown with cultured and refined people in their social life. Besides VVentwrn tli aiid lliv c iiy high school, there are Iwn excfllent girls ' colleges in l cxington. Being a county seat and an educational center, Lexington draws to ft many well educated, public and professional people. The town is just forty-two miles from Kansas City and is easily reached by two branches of the Missouri Pacific from both Kansas City and St. Louis. Being on the historic . unta !• Trail, there arc .splendid rock roads for tourists leading into Lex ingtottt