Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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lass. Students shall be required to repeat the work in c who fail to take an examination, except in case of a recognized excuse, or who attend an examination but fail to turn in an examination paper, shall be marked 'ifailedn for that period. In case of an unavoidable absence the student will be marked X and will be per- mitted to take the examination at some later date pro- vided that he file in the ofhce of the dean an acceptable excuse either prior or immediately following the date of the examination. Before the student may rake the for an absent grade he must present to his ermit signed by the dean. AND ABSENCES: All grades marked examination instructor a p 1. CONDITIONS Nconditionn in any subject, or absent from an exami- nation, which are not removed within a reasonable time as indicated by the dean, will be changed to failure. 2. INCOMPLETE: All grades, except s of 'lincompletei' not made up within the next given rade period will be changed to failure. g 3. FAILURES: A semester grade marked failure, or an rade permitted to emester grades, incomplete or conditioned semester g lapse with a failure, cannot be removed and no credit will be given in the subject until the course is repeated again in class. 4. CHANGE OF COURSE. OR WITHDRAWAL: A student who drops a course, except by petition, later than three weeks from the date the class first meets shall be marked failed in that subject. In case of illness or other bl nditions the student may petition to unavoida e co . drop the course, and, if accepted, will not receive a failure in the subject. 5. CLAssIFIcATIoN: No student will be classified as a sophomore who has not satisfactorily earned at least twenty-eight semester hours. 6. FORFEITURES AND DISMISSALSZ The college re- serves the right to dismiss any student from the school at the close of any semester if he has failed In his scho- lastic efforts the preceding semest.er. If he fails to pass in the majority of the subjects for which he Is registered during any semester he shall be required to apply for permission to register for the subsequent semester. Before he is permitted to register for the second year's work the student must have an average of 1.5 for the freshman year's work or else must have made satisfac- h' ork cover- tory grades in at ing the preceding semester. least three-fourths of is w d- Requirements for Graduation. In order to gra uate from the junior College with the University pre- paratory diploma carrying the Junior College degree the student must meet the following requirements: 1. He must have been regularly enrolled in the junior d ust have completed one year of residence College an m ' ' ' l for all departments. work. This regulation is compu sory D E D I C A T l O N M . Macfadden, Governor Cooper of 'M ,,, -IU' r Tennessee, General Bullard, and Ray ' I Commander mond Kelly, Nahona American Legion, at Dedication Ban quef. We

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GROUP B I Mini- Maxi- Mini- Maxi- Suhuh mum mumSuMeds mum mum Agriculture . . 1 2 Commercial Drawing .... I 2 Typing . . . 1 r Shopwork .... 1 2 Shonhand . . . 1 2 Vocational Teacher Bookkeeping , . 1 2 Training . . 1 3 Commercial Law Z 25 Home Economics . I 3 Bus. Practice . . M x Pdndng . . . . 1 2 Saksmandup. . DQ I Auto Mechanics . M 1 Com. Arith. . . M M Conn Cleography L6 L6 Admission by Examination. Pupils desiring to enter the Junior College but who have never been grad- uated from a secondary school may do so by success- fully passing an entrance examination in the required number and kinds of units as specified above. Applicants wishing to enter by this method should correspond with the dean as to the dates of such examinations and the required subjects which he will have to take. Results of College Entrance Board Examinations are accepted in lieu of passing these examinations. So also are the examinations of the Board of New York Regents. Pupil Guidance. The college offers its students intelligent and careful guidance in several different fields. This service includes lil Educational Guidance, 12, Vocational Guidance, GQ Personal Guidance, My Mental and Physical Health Guidance, and Ol De- velopment through carefully chosen Extra-Curricular Activities. Every student is studied for the purpose of discovering his own particular individuality and needs. The purpose is to fit the boy to his own peculiar in- dividuality rather than mould him into a mass complex. The guidance program is carried on by means of both group and individual pupil conferences. Each student is assigned to a counsellor, who acts as his adviser. In matters pertaining to vocational and personal guidance it is possible that he will come in contact with as many faculty advisers as he has vocational interest or abilities, or as often as needs be in the development of his per- sonality. The duty of the adviser is to aid the pupil in the selection of his studies in order to best iit him in pursu- ing further study preparatory to his future vocation or profession. The educational adviser confers with him concerning types of colleges or universities where he can best get further training, and helps him in mapping out his course of study along this line. He is taught the art of fitting himself to an organized society as one of its members. His personal weaknesses, if he has any, are analyzed and methods of improvement are frankly discussed with him. His strong points are brought to his attention and again he is encouraged to sieze upon these and develop them to their fullest possibility. In other words, the aim of the entire guidance program is to develop the whole boy to the fullest extent rather than permit him to develop into a one-sided or warped individual. A guidance clinic, as well as a reading clinic, has U61 been established in the school and offers help to any student, at any time, with individual or personal prob- lems. Students are free to visit the clinic at their own volition or they may be referred by members of the faculty. Freshman Week. All freshmen and other stu- dents enrolling for the first time are required to report to the college a few days in advance of the beginning of instruction in September. This period is devoted to registration, aptitude and psychological tests, confer- ences with advisers, class assignments, lectures, and a general orientation program, thus enabling the pupil to become thoroughly acquainted with the school environ- ment before he is thrown into the larger group. General Requirements. At the time of matricu- lation every student is required to select one of the groups of college subjects for which he is prepared. He will be assigned to this group by the dean and will not be permitted to change to another unless he can show good reasons why such a change is necessary or advis- able. Under no circumstances will he be permitted to make such a change without the dean's consent. 1. NUMBER OF CLASS I-Iouns REQUIRED! Each stu- dent will be expected to carry a normal scholastic load of fifteen class hours per semester. The minimum num- ber of class hours which any regular student may carry during any one semester is twelve. The maximum num- ber is seventeen. Any deviation from this regulation must have the consent of the dean and a just cause must be presented by the pupil in the form of a petition before it will be acted upon. In addition to the regular schedule of class-room work the pupil must enroll in the military department for the regular work offered in the R. O. T. C. He is also required to participate in some form of physical education at least one hour each day during the school week. 2. HOME CONTACTS: Each pupil is required to write at least one letter home each week to his parents. Time is set aside once each week for this purpose. Examinations and Grades. In addition to the regular semester examination, which comes at the close of each term, both monthly and bi-monthly tests are given for the purpose of arriving, to some degree, at the progress the pupil is making. Such grades are marked numerically and a report is made to the pupil's parents or guardian immediately following. The lowest passing grade is 70Wv. All grades are made up from an average of the accumulated daily work and the exami- nation grades. Any student whose work is unsatisfactory but not a complete failure and, who, in the judgment of the instructor, is capable of removing the deficiency without repeating the work in class, shall be condi- tioned, and so marked. No conditioned grades will count toward graduation. Those students whose work is entirely unsatisfactory shall be marked failed,,' and

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2. He must have completed a total of sixty semester hours, partially distributed in the following order: fal English .......,.. ,.,.. t welve semester hours fb, History, or a Social Science, . .six semester hours c Forei n lan ua e ........., ten semester hours g g g semester hours semester hours ffl A Biological Science .,,..., five semester hours fdl Mathematics .......i..,, three fel A Physical Science .,...... five The requirements may be waived on the following conditions: If a student presents three units of high school credit for entrance in fbi or fd, above, or if he presents two units in fel or If the student presents three units of a foreign language he will be excused from live hours in requirement fel provided that the language studied in the college is the same he studied in high school. In such case he may enter the second course of the language and will be able to fulfill the requirements by taking in addition to the second course live hours of another language. Under no conditions, regardless of the above excep- tions, will a student be permitted to graduate with a total of less than sixty f60j semester hours of purely academic work. Credits earned in the Military and required Physical Education program cannot be sub- stituted for any of the sixty hours. It is important that each student become fully fa- miliar with the general requirements as outlined above. It is the purpose of the Junior College to parallel the first two years work along the practices and require- ments of the better colleges and universities throughout the country. Such schools generally are unwilling for any student to indulge in narrow specialization too early in his academic career. It is better that he have a broad view of the fields of general knowledge. The time for concentration and specialization comes in the professional school, which generally begins at the end of the sophomore year, or else is deferred to the graduate schools. The requirements for graduation from each particular department are listed along with the tabulation of these various courses on another page of the catalog. Scholarship Rating. In addition to a total of sixty hours required for graduation each student also must have accumulated at least one hundred and twenty f120l grade points. For the purpose of arriving at the value of grade points all numerical grades are translated into letter grades based upon a graduated scale from A, which is the highest grade and denotes excellence, down to D, which is barely passing and is unsatisfactory. F denotes failure. The accumulated grade points are arrived at in the following way: 1. For ited with each semester grade of A, the student is cred- four credit points. 2. For each semester grade of B, three credit points. 3. For each semester grade of C, two credit points. 4. For each semester grade of D, one credit point. U81 5. For each semester mark of condition QE, , no credit point. 6. For each semester mark of failure QFQ, no credit point. No student will be permitted to graduate from the college who does not receive during the last semester that he is enrolled in the school an average of two credit points for every semester course offered for graduation. No student entering the Junior College with advanced standing shall be permited to graduate from this insti- tution unless he receives an average of two credit points for each semester course completed while here. Degrees Offered. The title of Associate of Arts is conferred upon all graduates who fulfill the require- ments of the University Preparatory diploma from the Castle Heights junior College, except those who have been enrolled in the pre-Engineering and similar courses. The title Associate of Science will be conferred upon these. The associate degree is a recognized degree conferred by Junior Colleges upon their graduates. Faculty and Curriculum. 1. THE FACULTY- The faculty of the college consists of the president, the dean, and the approved faculty oflicers. Each member is carefully chosen and must hold, as the minimum qualification, at least the Master's degree. Even then he will be permitted to teach only in those subjects in which he has a Major and a strong Minor. In addition to the educational qualifications the fac- ulty oflicer is carefully selected upon his knowledge of youth and especially his understanding and ability to get along with young men and his ability to inspire confidence and leadership. 2. THE CURRICULUM-The curriculum of the Junior College is organized into the following departments of pre-professional courses: Kal LIBERAL ARTS: The Liberal Arts course parallels that which is usually found in the regular approved four-year Liberal Arts Colleges. Here the emphasis is placed upon English, mathematics, foreign languages and the humanities. This course is designed for the pupil who is seeking only a cultural education or for the one who has not yet made up his mind as to what particular profession he wishes to enter later in life. fbl PRE-LEGAL: This curriculum is particularly set up to prepare the student for the actual study of law. All first class law schools today are requiring at least two years of college work along certain approved courses before the student is admitted to the study of law. The junior College's pre-legal course meets the most scrutinizing requirements of such schools. fel PRE-AVIATION: Never before in the history of the country have young men been so much interested in aviation or aeronautics. The government has taken the lead in encouraging this particular phase of our Na- tional Defense program. At present it is possible for a young man, who has completed one year of college