Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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and finds a physician and a trained nurse waiting at the infirmary to see all cadets in need of their ministrations, and then from 8:15 until l o'clock come the class periods. Dinner is at I :IO P. M. Your son has by this time probably had to meet nine or ten formations, and has nine or ten times answered to his name. Had he failed at any formation to answer to his name, he would have been checked up at once. Had his name then not appeared on the official absentee list, a guard would be looking for him in two minutes more. Your clock at home is still keeping time for your boy at school. At 2 P. M. come drill for the companies and practice for the band. The band is one of the features of Castle Heights life. It is directed by a competent faculty officer, and liberal allowances are made cadets who are proficient on the various band instruments fsee page 935. The companies march to the drill Held, and there are instructed in close order or extended order drill, or in the ceremonies. The entire Battalion may go through Butts Manual, with music, a remarkable and beautiful set of exercises executed with the rifie. One company may go to the target range, another on a practice march, a third to do bayonet work, a fourth to study methods of attack and defense in trench warfare. Sometimes signalling or grenade throwing is the order of the day: or perhaps there is a field problem, in which the Corps works out over hill and valley certain practical points arising in battle. In fact, on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoon, from 2 to 3:l5, you may know that your boy is building up brain and body in the open air, inclement weather alone interfering. On such rare afternoons this time is devoted to lectures by members of the military staff on such subjects as hygiene, minor tactics' ma-I9 reading. and military history. FTOTTI 3230 until 4:30 comes afternoon study hall, a delinquency school for those cadets whose recitations of the morning have fallen below requirements. Parade and formal guard mount are scheduled at 5:l5, four aftemoofls Yveelfly- Again your boy falls in with his company on the plaza' this tlme m gray uniform, smart garrison cap, and shining black leather PUUCCS- The band strikes up a stirring march, and the Corps, escorting the Colors, moves to the parade grounds for the crowning 9'-Wemomes of the day- It is a wonderful picture-a wonderful memory fm' Your boy as he stands there in the midst of it. The sun 75

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