Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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of venereal disease. No cadet with a disease of this nature is permitted to remain in the Academy. FIRE PROTECTION The Hilltop buildings have steel fire escapes affording easy exit from all rooms, and in addition are equipped with a supply of hand fire extinguishers recommended by the Tennessee Inspection Bureau. The Main Barracks is furnished as well with two forty-gallon chemical extinguishers mounted on wheels for ready portability and with three separate hose services of IZ5 feet each, attached to a tank of 7,000 gallon capacity. Still further protection is afforded by the Lebanon Fire Depart- ment, which has recently installed an auto fire engine of modern construction, capable of throwing water to the fourth Hoor. TOBACCO Cadets who have passed their sixteenth birthday and whose parents or guardians file written consent with the Academy may smoke pipes in conformity with regulations. The demerit penalty for smoking cigarettesis heavy, and is rigidly enforced. Cadets detected for the third time in cigarette smoking are expelled. HOLIDAYS AND FURLOUCHS Reference to the Academy Calendar will show the holidays regularly granted during the scholastic year. Applications for leaves of absence at other times, or for furloughs over the week end, will be refused unless accompanied by the written request of parents, together with a statement of the emergency justi- fying the furlough. , Parents are urged not to make requests unless they are absolutely necessary- The cadet as well as the Academy is invariably the sufferer from consequent interruption and demoralization. It is especially urged that a cadet's teeth and eyes be carefully looked over and attended to before he reports for duty. 119

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LAUNDRY ALLOWANCE The laundry allowance for each cadet is as follows: 2 shirts fnot silkj. l pair pyjamas, or nightshirt. 2 suits underwear. 2 pairs of socks fnot silkb. 4 handkerchiefs. Z single sheets. l pillow slip. Articles sent out in excess of this allowance will be charged for at regular laundry rates. ' REPORTING PROMPTLY As one of the great lessons to be learned at Castle Heights is punctuality and promptness, parents are urged most strongly to see to it that their sons report for work on the day they are required to report. THE BLACKSTONE CADETS The Castle Heights catalogue would be incomplete this year without some mention of the fifty-odd cadets and three faculty officers of the Blackstone Military Academy, Blackstone, Virginia, who found a temporary home on the Hilltop when their own main barracks was destroyed by fire. Even experienced educators questioned the wisdom, in the middle of the scholastic year, of introducing a body of a half hundred cadets from one institution, with their own ways, methods of discipline, and daily routine, into the midst of another institution, necessarily different, and with a much larger cadet body. It is a tribute to both schools that the amalgamation was effected with surprisingly little friction. Unce enrolled as Castle Heights cadets, many of the visitors participated in the school athletics, and won for themselves places on the various teams. AS Castle Heights welcomed them, so she has bidden them goodby alfd C911 Speed, with the hope that they, too, will feel some of the affection with which the Academy cadet regards his Alma Mater. 121