Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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FBT S an introduction,CastIe Heights aslts the privilege of suggesting the foundation of mutual under- standing, upon which there may be erected the superstructure, a healthful, useful and happy school home for your boy. AS A CHIEF CORNER STONE OF THIS FOUNDATION THE ACADEMY WOULD PLACE ITS OWN RESPON- SIBILITY TO YOU. It proposes in this boolc to tallc to you about your boy. It expresses a willingness to receive him as a charge, and it offers to accept whole-heartedly and genuinely the grave responsibility of expending its wisdom and experience in his behalf. It pledges its best efforts to do for him what you, as devoted and ambitious parents, would do for him yourselves, did opportunity and circumstances permit. YET THERE IS ANOTHER STONE IN THIS FOUNDATION. THE ACADEMY WOULD BE UNFAIR TO ITSELF AND TO YOU, IF IT DID NOT CALL THIS TO YOUR THOUGHTFUL ATTENTION. THAT IS, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO THE ACADEMY. There is built up at Castle Heights, a carefully planned system by means of which wonderful things may be accomplished for the normal boy. We lcnow of no other system that will accomplish so much. Yet even this system will fail to some degree unless the parents of each cadet give the Academy the same whole-hearted co-operation towards the upbuilding of the boy that the Academy pledges itself to give the parents. This applies especially in connection with the following vital considerations: Too much money to spend-DEMORALIZING. , Consent to drop subjects because they seem hard- WEAKENING. Permission to open credit accounts or to draw checks and sign drafts indiscriminately-RUINOUS. Assumption of the attitude that the cadet's duty to the Academy is a matter exclusively between the Academy and the cadet-DAMAGING. TBDDIJCTIDN Encouragement to overstay furlough, to report late at the opening of term, to leave ahead of everyone else- -all these are injurious to the highest degree, not only to the boy, but also to the institution. With all its heart Castle Heights believes in the pleasant side of school life, but not at the cost of the better and more valuable things. There are a hundred ways in which the parent can support the Academy, malce its worlt more valuable, its teachings more constructive, and its law and order more helpful-There are just as many ways in which the parent, unintentionally, can hinder the Academy, and by hindering the Academy, also hinder the boy. THAT IS WHY CASTLE HEIGHTS MUST CONSCIEN- TIOUSLY STATE PLAINLY AT THE VERY OUTSET, THAT IT CANNOT UNDERTAKE TO ACCOMPLISH WORTH- WHILE RESULTS FOR YOUR BOY UNLESS YOU WILL PLEDGE YOUR COOPERATION. Let us remind you that the boys of today, your boy among them, will be the men of tomorrow. Civilization is still in a critical period. Tremendous problems must be solved by this next generation. There will be a great need for clear thinlaing and clean living. WHAT KIND OF MEN ARE THESE BOYS GOING TO BE? The Academy is malcing it its business to help answer that question in the way that every father and mother wants it answered. Consider that boy of yours for a moment. Consider his education. Does he lcnow how to study? Does he study? Has he the exclusive oversight of trained men who Icnow their business? Is his school course properly arranged? ls he passing his classes? ls he accumulating mere facts or is he learning to use his head? Can he thinlc? Can he spell? Can he write a decent letter? When he finishes, will he really be prepared for college, for business, or for life? Consider his physique. Does he carry himself well? Is his eye clear and bright? ls he in bed every nuht

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-fx TLB -ca1.fiTJs1s- Hsigiifrff-M1L1frai lsyaicaibhmv- 9.0 i I . 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 knew 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 QUESTIONS AND MANY OTHERS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED IE 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 lcind-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 stronger than it has been in the fNcademy's thirty-three years of success. 3. Equipment. Castle Heights is one of the best equipped boy's schools in the country. its eleven brick 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 relations. 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. its cadets come from the best homes in the country. It specializes in the superior boy. It does not hesitate to get rid quiclrly of the boy who proves objectionable. It does its utmost for him, but it has other boys, yours among them, to consider. its 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 body. 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. O CADETS ACT AS GUARD TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT THE HERMITAGE g...