Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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no extreme step is ever taken until the case has been carefully re- viewed before a Faculty Court. The Corps of Cadets, acting under the Honor System, is unanimously pledged not to haze, lay hands on, or humilate any new cadet. A DAY AT CASTLE HEIGHTS Castle Heights has a happy suggestion for those fathers and mothers who entrust their sons to its care: ' Let the clock at home time the boy at school. Castle Heights is prepared to tell you, in advance, just what your boy in all likelihood will be doing at any hour of the day or night while he is a cadet at the Academy. Q The rigid military system and the unescapable oversight make this possible. The cadet day at Castle Heights begins at 6:20 A. M., when first call sounds. Reveille is five minutes later: and if you look at your clock at 6:35, when assembly is sounding on the Hilltop, you may know that the cadet body, your son among its members, is in company formation, and that his name is being called by a first sergeant. He is fully uniformed. During the good weather of the Fall and Spring he immediately goes through setting-up exercises in the open air, after which he hurries to put his quarters in order for police inspection. His room, by the way, must remain in perfect condition until dinner, for at some hour in the morning it will be inspected again by a faculty officer. ' . When your clock at home points to 7 o'clock, your boy is going in to breakfast at the Academy. At the word of command, the long lines march steadily and silently, every head to the front, into the mesfyhell' Where YO'-11' Son goes immediately to his chair, standing leehmel lt at attention until he hears the command Seats There is a movement Of Chairs, and again a silence until the command Rest The tables aCC0mm0date eight or ten cadets each, the ranking men at Elie laead and foot respectively. On these devolves the responsibility OI' il C COIlduCt of the table: but here and there around the attractive hall are faculty tables as we families, join regularly with the cadet body. , 1 - Sick call sounds at 7:4 ll, where the ofhcers, their wives and 0, as the Corps marches out from breakfast, 73

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5 CADET STAFF

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