Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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f 'N -ca1.fJTJsL- ucigiifrw-m1L1JTQiirsY-aicQf1DENiY- yltml . .- g... tag V by ten and up every morning before seven? Has he the poise of body that comes from superbly developed muscles and systematic exercise in the open air? 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 lcnow twice as much as you lcnew at his age? Do you lcnow who his companions are? Do you lcnow where he goes and what he does? ls he neat? ls he orderly? Does he shine the heels of his shoes? Can be begin a thing and finish it? Does he respect his elders and superiors? These things are straws that show which way the wind blows. CASTLE HEIGHTS OFFERS TO HELP YOU ANSWER THESE OUESTIONS AND MANY OTHERS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED IF YOUR BOY IS TO DO HIS FULL PART IN THIS WORLD. As a real school, Castle Heights believes that its purpose is to develop real boys into real men. lts pro- gram for endeavoring to accomplish this is definite, and resolves itself into six distinct heads: 1. 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 ltind-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 gen- tlemen 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 willing to malce the development of your boy their personal and particular business. The faculty for the coming year is larger and strongei than it has been in the Academyis thirty-three years of success. 3. Equipment. Castle Heights is one of the best e uipped boy's schools in the countrv. lts eleven briclc q and stone buildings, including commodious auditorium, gymnasium and swimming pool, generous sized class- rooms, modern laboratory, beautiful mess-hall, armory, memorial library, hospital, comfortable cadet quarters, spacious parade ground and athletic fields, place it in an enviable position. 4. Scholarship. Castle Heights scholarship is al- ready widely recognized. It is fully accredited. its graduates enter all the great colleges and universities without examination, save a few in the eastern states. No consideration comes ahead of scholarship here. The Military Department is subservient to the Academic. Athletics are decidedly a secondary consideration, yet the school is famous for its teams. The best that modern educational thought and methods can offer awaits your boy. 5. Discipline. Castle Heights is a rigid military school because it believes that under no other system can mind, spirit and body be so successfully developed. It talces pride in the neat and military appearance of its cadet corps. It does not attempt to malce 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 relationsi The normal healthy boy comes to love this form of con- trol 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. 5. Personnel. Castle Heights chooses its boys. It is in no sense a reform school. lts cadets come 'from the best homes in the country. It specializes in the superior boy. It does not hesitate to get rid quiclcly of the boy who proves objectionable. It does its utmost for him, but it has other boys, yours among them, to consider. lts authorities do not believe that anywhere in the United States is there to be found a more wholesome, a better-controlled, or better-behaved group of boys than those who malce up its student bod-y. With this introduction, Castle Heights invites your attention to these pages. Its integrity is behind every statement in this catalogue. lts doors are open for you whenever you will come and see for yourself. I 0 CADETS ACT AS GUARD TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT THE HERMITAGE 10.

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BT ll FACIJ LTY THE FACULTY IS STILL THE HEART OF THE SCHOOL HE FACULTY is literally that, the HEART OF THE SCHOOL, the life-giving centre, from which must come the currents which energize, feed and quiclc- en the entire body. We must have modern equipment, teachertraining,degrees, tests and measurements and the material things which go to assist the teacher, but after all the lcind ol man that teacher is, is still the supreme consideration. Castle Heights has FIVE EXECUTIVES, of from ten to twenty-Five years experience in teaching boys. Any one of these men might well be superintendent of a school. All of them put in full time in the class-room, sub-dividing the executive duties so that they will not interfere with what we consider here the most vital worlt at the Academy, namely, the personal contact with cadets in the class-room from day to day. Colonel Armstrong is a Castle Heights product, having worlced to his present position from that of lowest instructor. With the exception of several years spent as Dean and Head ofthe Department of Mathematics at Cumberland University, he has been at C.H.M.A. since 1909. Thousands of Castle Heights cadets have felt his Firm, but lcinclly, guidance. Lt.-Col. Buchanan, PhD., Dean, brings to the Mathe- matics Department a rich experience and preparation. He, too, has been teaching for twenty years. Major Kendall, the Headmaster, for ten years has held positions of responsibility. The English courses take on vital interest under his compelling hand. He is the friend, of every boy in the Academy and a wise and patient helper when a boy is in difficulty. Major lngram has the more or less thanlcless taslc of Commandant, with its disciplinary burden, but in spite of that fact the boys love and respect him for the impartiality which accom- panieshis strictness. Major Hillard, the professor of Military Science and Tactics, has the regard of every cadet in the school for his qualities as a gentleman and a soldier. He is a West Pointer through and through, with all that implies, and he has identified himself with the school to a remarkable degree. Every member of the faculty is devoting his life to teaching boys. Each has been chosen for outstanding ability in appealing to, inspiring and developing boy- life and character. Each has been chosen For those qualities of heart and life which will live on and on in the lives of the boys whom he teaches.