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Chrisliaii in character, hiif not ipftarian. The Uoaid of Trustees is coinpoKiMl of rep- resentatives of all the leading Protestant churches of Lexington. The students are raQulml to attend church once each Sunday. Pail of the timi ' there are services in. .the gym- Bible school is conducted in barrack-s by the regular injstructora of the Academy. BToisrthinff that is inclined to impress the ' mind with the tenets of aajr cme ehutdi, to fh« exclusion of others i» carefully avoided. Physical TrafaUng It is tlie object of the school not to turn iiasium, I ' ondm ted by thr school chaplain or by some prominent minister. When there is no service at the Academy the students at- tfii ' l iti raiil;:- Ihi ' rhnivhis to whirfi Ihoy belong or which their parents designate. A out crack athletic toams and a few highly trained athletes, but to give every boy in school that phjrslcal traininff which he needs. Owing to Ihf fart 1ii.it Die h ' fe nl W ' cntworth is so regulai- and so conducive to the best phys- ical development, her teams are able to com- pote siH CPssfnlly with miiry of tlip strongest college teams. It is to be noted. howey«r,
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The WhoU Syatan CukaUtod to Gal Beat SdbalMlic Rewlli It is to l o n l cl furthoi that the regular- ity of Wentworth life, the system of disci- pline nod in iact all the school activities are so planned a? to biinjr about the best pos- sible ivaults in the si-hola.stic work. Appro- priate prizes and privileges tirv offered to atadenta attaiiuiif-: iecial distinction. scholarship. It is not natural for a red- blooded boy to enjoy competition with jrirls: at Wentworth lie has only Im j.- f ' ir fomiwti- tor». The good students, moreover are not of the anaemic type usually desiffOated as gri ' indK. Th . ' load ' Ms in scholarship invar- iably are leadt-rN in other school activities and hold rmpmMW, ' Si 6(9t stadattt WKNTWOKI li Hvi rALlUN. AT L ' MkN STAnoN, Reports S«nt Home Every Two Wedu IteiKjrts of the Rcholiistic work are sent home at the on«l of « ji h of tlu- grade periods. There are aix of these periods duiin the year. Infonnal reports also are sent at the end of each two ntH ' ks during the grade period. Thus the parent may keep in close touch with the atndent ' s record and advise rcyarding any proposed ebfMip»ia elaaaifica- tlon. Comptlition With Boyi if llie grade i iiet;l6 nhowiug the compar- ative standing of students in any co-educa- tional whool 1)4 ' •• amitied, it will Ix- found, in practically every case, that the girls lead in CAN Luai)N Rti ' NioN. November 1. ISHSI Moral and RaUgioas butniction Any system of edaeatjon that dot . not phxcc the moral eJemant ahead of the nu iital and physical is abortive, and Wentworth strives to impress its student with the im- portance of right living, of avoiding exeemes and anytliing that tends to weaken the tmwera of miiid inid body. In the daily contact between toaihcr anri pupil that exists at Wentworth, the te;u lit r has great opportunity for making lifelong impressions his exampis as well as by hli precept. Thedef ifrn of the founder of the Academy was that the schoql ahottld be poutiyeJy
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lli.i) I hi -( nrvt ' r htscs siifhl of a boy who id not the star athlete, and that he is tottiaed alaag athletic lines as w«ll as is the BUUL wlu) ii. Jible to mak« the teun., AO Interested The athletic teunu are composed of vol- untews bat wary boy is re- qnlred to enga in w»ne form iBf athJetics. It Is the aim of the aieheol to provide cuat-hci for M» many teams as can be Thc Competitive Sport Ten football teams are devf l oiied and traliied by various; drill. It teaches self-control and gracefui- ness of carriagre. It dL elops those muscles whicli aie most needed throughout life. One and a quarter hours of each school day are devote l to drill, and there arp ton olher military formations of short duraiion wliidi attiletics, boseliiill, swimniinR:, soioer and ipoil ara c inied out -Ahmv: tlie same liot . MMary Drills There is no better means of physie«l ex- eitiM tiun that «f£»4td bir tfa pilltiqr pliy.iiciil f ' xercisi ' user] by oui ' army camps in de ' d- oping soldiers is osed evecy lligr at W. ' itt worth. The pictures on this i-ii f show some of the caI- isthenic exercises used at Wentworth. Those exercises liavo boon dovoloped alter yoars of thought by the export in charge of the gymnasium worit at West Point, and they are used bf the entire United States Amqr. Thagr «w lift apgt itflae w»i« aq
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