Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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more. Its graduates enter nearly all the great colleges and universi- ties without examination, including West Point and Annapolis. No consideration comes ahead of scholarship here. The Military De- partment is subservient to the Academic. Athletics are decidedly a nsideration, yet the school is famous for its teams. The best that modern educational thought and methods can offer secondary co awaits your boy. - 5 Discipline. Castle Heights is a rigidly military school be- cause it believes that under no other system can mind and spirit and body be so successfully developed. Its cadets wear well-Htting uniforms because these are part of the system. It does not try to make soldiers, but men who can obey as well as command, who have self-control, initiative, brains, manners, and the highest standards of personal conduct and human relations. The normal healthy boy comes to love this -form of control and activity as he loves nothing else in all school life. It brings out in him all that there is of the man and the gentleman. 6. Personnel. Castle Heights chooses its boys. It is in no sense a reform school. lts cadets come from many of the best homes in the country. It specializes in the superior boy. It does not hesitate to get rid quickly of the boy who proves objectionable. It does its utmost forhimg but it has other boys, yours among them, to consider. Its authorities do not believe that anywhere in the United States is there to be found a more wholesome, controlled, straightforward, well-behaved group of boys than those who make up its student body. With this introduction, Castle Heights invites your attention to the pages that follow. Its integrity is behind every statement in this catalogue. Its doors are open for you whenever you will come and see for yourself. 9

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Consider his habits and character. ls he obedient? Do you have to tell him twice to do a thing? Does he want to argue with you? Does he know twice as much as you knew at his age? Do you know who his companions are? Do you know where he goes and what he does? ls he neat? ls he orderly? Does he shine the heels of his shoes? Can he begin a thing and finish it? Does he respect his elders and superiors? 1 l These things are straws that show which way the wind blows. Castle Heights ofers to help you answer these questions and many others as they must be answered if your boy is to do his full part in this world of ours. As a real school, Castle Heights believes that its special business is to develop real boys into real men. lts program for endeavoring to accomplish this is dehnite, and resolves itself into six distinct heads: l . Isolation. Castle Heights is located just outside the corporate limits of Lebanon, Tennessee, thirty miles from Nashville. This beautiful, historic little town of 4,000 inhabitants is a kind-hearted, Christian community which for eighty years has been the seat of Cumberland University. It has no atmosphere of bright lights, of questionable resorts, of city temptations and distractions. Here a boy breathes the clean air of the unspoiled country. ' 2. Faculty. Castle Heights faculty officers are gentlemen as well as scholars. They are men of experience and ability, each a specialist in his own line. The boy in his manifold moods and problems is an old story to them. They are here because they are ready and will- ing to make the development of your boy their private and personal and particular business. And the faculty for the coming year is larger and stronger than it has been in the Academy's twenty years of un- interrupted success. 3. E q u ip m c n t. Castle Heights is the most magnificently equipped boys' school in the South. Its eight brick and stone build- ings, its commodious auditorium, its gymnasium and swimming-pool, its generous sized class-rooms, its modern laboratory, its beautiful mess-hall, its armory, its memorial library, its hospital, its comfortable cadet quarters, its spacious parade ground and athletic field-these place it in a class by itself. 4. Scholarship. Castle Heights scholarship is already widely recognized. Its diploma means something, and it is about to mean 8

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ON THE CUMBERLAND NEAR LEBANON