Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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tUEOJhUIB Lexington is located in contral clintste herv is ideal for a school, since cool e i u ugh to Iw invijror- .d intr ami to ofTer the winter sports such as skatinK and sleitrhintc. ' iii nt the samo time il ia mild enough not to .sub- ject the iitudenta to the rigors of a m« ro northern locality. The cadets can be out of (lours lomfortably practirally all of the school venr. A Virar or FHokt l wv m Wmnp

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± LEXINGTON, HISSOUBI In 190S. CoL W. M. Hoge resigned hia position an Inspector of Accredited Schools for the University of Missouri, and WM «h«s««n fls Associate Superintendent and Principal of tlie Academy. Continuing in thia position for twelve yean I10 bas had a mnst imixirtant influcno ' in Academy to its pre. ent .staiidardi. In 1906, Capt. E. A. Hickman, lat Cav- alry, U. S. Army, a graduate of tliia Acad- craiy, of the Virginia Military Institute, and of the Governmfnl Si-hrinl for Army Officers at Ft Leavenworth, was detailed by the War Departmant as Military Instructor. His un- tiritjg energy, good judgment, and interest to bogrs, together with hIa experience as an dBeer in the United States Army, were a moflt pi)t4 tit factor in placjteg the Academy in the very front rank (if the nfittuy jdMote of the United States. Wentworth a Po»t of the Natioaal Guard In the Academy waa made a PoMt of Oie Natfonitl Guard df MlMOuri. Qjf ttds act, provisions were made for an annual inspection by State Officers and for sTunt- ing commissions, by the Governor of the State, to nil offii-erH and graduates of the Academy. Excepting the matter of appro- priations, this establishes the same relations betwrcn the Academy and th. St.itc us exist between the WMt Military Academy War Departmsot D«taila Army Ofiear to In 1896 the War Department of til United States, recognising the work done by ti» Acadony in its militar ' training, detailed an officer from the Retrutar Army us pro- feasor of Military Science and Tactics and sapplle l it with unlnance and ordnance stores. This detail has continued to the present time, and supplies have been in- (■reA! ed until tho nfhool is now provided with everything necessary for infantry and artil- leiry dtflls. Faar Am immvcnoN

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I I L K X 1 N G T 0 N MISSOURI SB Liocatlon Lexington i« the county seat of Lafayette Coiintw It hii.s :i [Mipuliitiori of ill out ti.OdO lind it) rcmarkubly well equipped with ex- c«Uent store buildings. pnbUc edifices, hand- flome reiiidences and lirmd lurlclc streets. It has excellent ayntmn at electric lijrhts, waterworks, gas, «n l i -uf iav ' . Sunt ' two hundred and ten feet above the river, a more be«tttiful and healthfal location could scarroly I :p found. Thf vipw acroflBthe broad Mi: s4jui-i HiviT ;»lloy prt ' sents a magnificent phyKiogrraphic st i ly Jiri ' l in one which iS: scarcely rivaled for scenic beauty. Dn one of the bluffs of the river not far from where Wentworth Military Academy stands was foui t tb« battle of Lexington, Civil War. Lexington is an old town and its population iiuludes many of Ihe oldes t and most cultured families of Iho state. The cadets are thervfnrt thrown witli cultUCd and rflined people in their social life. Besides Wentworth and the city high school, there is an excellent girls ' college in Leidngton. Being a county seat and an educational center. LexiniEton draws to it many well educated, public and profetuional t)enple. The town ia just forty-two inilcs from Kan -4 IS ty and is casi jr reached by t s o braiiche« uf the Mitiitouri Pacific from both Kansas City and .St. liOuiA. Being on the historic Santa Fe Trail, there are splendid rock loadscfor tourists leading into t«3dng I I Tbb CMsits Xtnoi ns TUnttns Coufeft tmo Biu«uia sucis