Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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%OenlwvrtJi LOCATION i|EXIN(iT )N iH the county seat of Lafayette county. It has a population of about 6,000 and is well {«iuipi ed witii excellent store liiiildings, public edfflsw, handsome residences and broad street . It has excellent systenM of dectric Ught, W»ter ' . I ' fk.s, Kits and scworajro. Some twn hundred and ten feet above the river, the lo- cation in as beautffo! «bd bBilttifbl as can be found. On one of the bluCts of the rivui ' not far UMin vrhere WentWortb Military Academy stands was fought the battle of Lexington, which was nn important battle of the late Civil War. L exinston is an old town and its population includes many of the oldest and most cultured families of tiie state. The cadets an- tht ii roro throilftt Wtth t!0l0 people in tlieir M ' i;tl litr. TranaporUtion Facilities The town {a Just forty-five miles from RKDSaH City. It is i-.isilv riitched liy two branches of the Misisouri Pucilic and the main line of the Santa Fe and the Wabash, of which the Lcxinuton station is HiMiri ' tla, where Lexinjrton buse.s meet all tiain.s. Lex- ington is ;ils() III l ' edfral highway 21 and . Stat«liij|;|hw«y 13 of th»MiMKrari«|y«tem and two bus lines operate over the hard surfaced vMtf ltttween Lexington and Kcdsm City. Near Kansas City Weiitwoith is especially fortunate in its location in that it is somewhat close to Kmi Has City, one of tlif largest citipH in the Weflt, wluTf iheiv is an abundance of the very best iiflt rings in a cultural way that arc to t e fuund anywhere in the middle went. Each year Kansas City draws many of the most renowned artists, who.sc woi l. ni;iy be seen and heard by cadets who are interested, under supervision of faculty members. The very fiii ' st of medical talent is also close at hand in Kansas City in any rare cases where it may be needed. Ahhouf llu ' .sc Miinjr aro cloi e cnoutrh for the cadeLs to make u.se of them, the (act that Lexington is forty-five miles from Kansas City in- Mires ;i t ' -tal absence of the evils that are connected with the city life. It is. of course, to be iindersloiHi that cadets are NOT al- lowed furloughs to Kansas City except in cases of emergenoies. Many Colleges in MitM vi Pj ' ol)al ly no other s ' .i ' . ' in ' li- ' West ha.s as large a number of }{imkJ cIi ' mjI- ul ' colleKiate rank as Missouri, many of them l)eing at no great distance from Wentwoilli. In many Lkxixoton Is Uicu Above tus Rivuc v li a or thb Citt Fkum thb Southwest

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airy naturally accompftnirs military training and the bearing of the cadets in sociai con- tact is The Ac-liiK I iiffiTs i-xceptional optwrtunitta to boys who have musical talent in its band orehMtn, and sfiw dub. Freqtiently duriiqr pa.st years thf Academy Rnrd has hcvn called upon to furnish music in parades in Kansas City and nearby cities, and in ex- ecution and appearance it did not suffer in comparison with the large profeuional bands appearing on the same occasions. The orchestra plays for chapd, reoeptiona and dances. Fhna tima to tbne aolo oam Ijits arc given and|bi«.i nninity singing. i the ( ii||jjt|iiiii lit of personalities. Henca a trreat ' d il of responsibility rests on the students tht mselves. Many cases of disci- pline are handled by the students and the coDdoet of the student body is the cryitaUtap tion of popular Hontimcnt rather thaA ' 4 4111 oppressive s ' sttmi of regulations. In short the plan of Wentworth has as its olijcct the t ' li |iing of American citi- zens—men who are mentally alert, phys- ically sound, and oouragMOs enough to take prominent parts in the educational, religious, commercial and physical life of their com- nnntftlea. WlUle the discipline at Wentworth is firm liiiBt at all harsh. Very little puniahnwnt «f liaif kind is neecasary. Tha poniahwant that f.s assigned i=; always of a militan, ' na- ture and not tijc kind which will in any way Imnniliate a boy. Students who cannot be handied without physical compulsion «n aan home, Tfa9 «ftii «r tiia 4M i aw w r i l fflt tow»t CMIH ' iji. ' ]

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VffxT Entkanck to G«mna«um ways this i« a fortunate thing. The atiBOcla- tion» between the students of these schools in their competitive athletic and wholastic activities, tlx associations of the facuitiefl of these schcKils. and the frequent educational conf ronccs lu ' ld among Ihe e different insti- tutions, all go I CI l ( ' . ' |) tlie standard of aca- demic work on a liigii level. There is a decided stimulation to achievement in the haaltfay aod friendly rivalry between th« dif- The Climate Lexington is located in eenttml MiaaoorL The climate here is ideal for a school, since it is cool enough to be invigorating and to offer the winter s wrts. such as skating and slcighitiK. and at the same time it is mild enough not to subject the students to the rigors of a more northern locality. The cadets can be out of doors comfOftlA ipnii ticaUy all of tb« tehMl XMX