Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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. ,fm -caiJfrLis-Hf,1gHJr.f-m1L1Jrai l'iY'c!iCdIDEMY- if' 13-as ,...,.. ,. .,Wn,, ,W ' 1 24 ,fi tz:..,:sa.M.W.,p,..,,.s. ,... W.,........,....,,....,...,,...,gp...s..,,.....g..,.,,......::,.s..:p,,...,,,M.g...,sLM....ti.m..Z...3-3 and our graduates ,are, therefore, prepared for college in the fullest sense of the word. Most colleges require fifteen units for unconditional entrance, specifying certain ones as necessary and others as elective. Cur requirements call for sixteen units of which we have made compulsory those specified by colleges as being necessary, but the cadet may malce up the remainder from a list of electives. The Castle Heights diploma represents what the reputable university demands for entrance, and its standard is as high as that of the best preparatory schools. To receive rating as a Senior at Castle Heights a student must have met the following requirements: 'I. He'must have earned not less than eleven full units of credit before beginning his Senior year. Q. These units of credit must be such as will meet the Castle Heights requirements for graduation at the completion of the Senior year. , 3. Castle Heights will accept from the candidate for a diploma not more than twelve units of credit earned at other schools. 4. Qne full year's scholastic worlc must be done at the Academy and four full units of credit earned here. The units without which a cadet cannot graduate are: English ..................... 4 units Mathematics ,. . 3 units Languages .. ... EZ units Total ...... .......... 9 units The additional units which the candidates for.our diploma must present may be selected from. Algebra, beyond Quadratics .......... M Unit Plane Trigonometry .................. W English, Ancient, Modern and Medieval, and American History, each ......,.. 'I Civics .................... .... M or 'I l.atin . . . . . 4 French .. -- 9 Greek . . . . . 3 German . . . - - 9 Spanish ............ .. Q Physical Geography. .. ....M General Science ......... .. 'I Physiology and Hygiene .... .. 'I Chemistry ............. .... I Botany .... .... M or 'I Zoology .... W or 'I Biology ............ 'I 4 Mechanical Drawing ... ... 'I Manual Training .... 'I All colleges and universities which admit on cer- tificates in lieu of entrance examinations accept the diploma of Castle Heights. In view of the fact that the entrance requirements of the better universities are not the same, it is of distinct advantage to the student to inform the Headmaster at an early date of the college of his choice. Castle Heights offers its students intelligent and careful guidance in the matter of choosing a life worlc. As a man's happiness, peace Vocational Guidance of mind, financial success, and even his health, de- pend upon the Icind of worlc he is doing, does it not seem reasonable to devote some consideration to choice of vocation? The selection of worlt in which a lifetime is to be spent is the most important choice a man malces in his whole life and the school has a great responsibility in DIRECIVING THAT CHOICE. Even a cursory observation will convince any one that great numbers of young people malce poo-r choices of vocations, in fact, often choose vocations for which they are totally unfitted, either by certain limitations inherent in themselves, or their inability to adapt themselves to certain necessary ,demands which the worlc malces. The greater number of these poor choices is due to ignorance on the part'of young people as to available occupations for which they aresuited. Such poor choice is fraught with potential unhappiness and discontent all through the life of the individual, which might be easily avoided, for certainly opportunities to enter almost any conceivable line of worlc exist abund- antly in this country. The average young person is unaware of them, however. Castle Heights Military Academy has made an effort to meet this situation in a way that will benefit the boy and lead him to malce an intelligent selection of his life worlc, a selection that will not malce of his life the tragedy of the square peg in the round hole. The aim of vocational guidance as it is practiced here is CaD to find out through a study of the boy just what line of worlc his talents and abilities fit him for, tbl to help him into that worlc, CCD to advise him to fit his school course to meet the needs of his individuality. How do we do'these things? First we give the boy the chance to learn something about the professions, particularly those with which

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