Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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can enter any institution of higher learning that does not invariably require written examinations for entrance. Some of these institu- tions are: The University of Alabama The Alabama Polytechnic ln- stitute The University of Arkansas Center University The University of Chicago Clemson College Cumberland University The University of Florida The University of Georgia The Georgia School of Tech- nology The University of lowa The University of Illinois , The University of Kentucky The University of Kansas Leland Stanford University The University of Michigan The University of Missouri The University of Minnesota The University of Mississippi The University of North Car- olina The University of Ohio The University of Oklahoma The University of Pennsyl- vania The University of the South The University of South Car- olina Southwestern Presbyterian University The University of Tennessee Trinity College CNorth Car- olinaj Trinity College CTexasj Tulane University Vanderbilt University The University of Virginia Washinl and Lee Uni- versity The University of Wisconsin COLLEGE SCI-IOLARSHIPS It should also be noted that several institutions offer Castle Heights graduates one or more freshman scholarships worth to the holder the cost of the regular tuition, which ranges in value from seventy to one hundred dollars. Among these institutions are: Cumberland University Washington and Lee Uni- Tulane University Southwestern Presbyterian versity The University of the South University The University of Virginia ln addition, the University of the South offers a scholarship of two hundred dollars to first-honor men. ADMISSION When a boy has completed grammar school, he is ready for Castle Heights. Castle Heights is the link between the grammar school and the university, or the link between the grammar school and business life. It is not a college, nor does it give collegiate work. It takes the boy When he is ready to begin Algebra and the Languages. While application should not be made for a boy not ready for high school work, or for one under fourteen years of age, too much emphasis cannot be laid on the fact that the longer a boy remains in Castle Heights, the greater will be the benefit that he derives. Even a single year at Castle Heights is worth much to any boy,' but 41

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two years' stay is three limes as valuable to him as one, and the gain to the cadet who remains three years is proportionately greater. The ideal as well as the most economical plan is to enter the boy as a freshman, and give him the cumulative advantages of the full four-year course. There is not a month of the year in which the Academy does not receive letters from parents the burden of which is, My only regret is that I did not send him to you sooner! Work at Castle Heights prepares a boy for whatever the world may have in store for him. If he is going to college, he will be pre- pared to get out of college the best there is in it. If he is to begin work, he will be ready to take up his new responsibilities with a mind accustomed to meet difficulties and conquer them. Whatever the boy's course later, as a freshman he will begin Algebra and go through a very careful review of English Grammar. The importance of these two classes cannot be over-emphasized, for nine-tenths of the trouble that a willing boy may have later on in his preparatory school work arises from a lack of foundation here. That is why the Academy makes so earnest a plea for the boy as a freshman, when there are no mistakes to rectify. ln addition to English and Algebra, the new cadet will take up English l-listory and either Latin or General Science, this choice depending largely upon his already pre-determined course after graduation. For the sake of the cultural advantages as well as the great assistance the subject is in the study of English, every effort is made to schedule the boy in Latin. These four studies, English, Algebra, History, and either Latin or General Science, together with Spelling and Military Science and Tactics, which are required of all cadets, give the boy a full schedule. When he passes this work at the end of his frst year, the cadet has an absolutely solid foundation for the remainder of his preparatory school course. He ought never to have any further serious trouble in the classroom. The sophomore cadet completes Algebra through Quadratics, and COUUHUCS the Study of English with special reference to composi- tion. By this time his letters home should begin to be sources of real gratification-and just here the Academy wishes to call attention to its unique system of required letters home. In addition to the regula- tion that every cadet must write a letter home each Sunday and 43