Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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IAS ESSENTIAL VALUE not do unless he must. He is alert, thinks quickly, acts promptly. Next, he may become a corporal in his company. In this capacity he finds himself in charge of seven men. They con- stitute his squad. He can make or break it. Again there is demanded of him leadership. If he has not this quality, he must develop it, or he cannot hope to hold his oilice. Other cadets want the honor. A little later he may find himself a line sergeant, with added responsibilities, or a top sergeant, with still more on his shoulders. They must be big and broad to hold it up, for now the boy is becoming a man. i431 Eventually, after he has proved himself, the chevrons of a commissioned officer are within his grasp. Here as first or second lieu- tenant he is in joint charge with two other oflicers of some seventy-five men, or, as cap- tain, their acknowledged leader. They look to him for encouragement, advice, correction, enthusiasm. Perhaps he may even climb to that highest of cadet ranks, Cadet Major, when not only a single company, but also the entire Corps of Cadets acknowledges his supremacy. Nothing else so develops a boy's sense of responsibility. Discipline. Discipline at Castle Heights is a system of control by means of which cadets cannot help receiving certain definite benefits from the Academic Department on the one hand and from the Military Depart- ment on the other. It is one thing for a school to offer a hoy advantages, most schools do that. It is quite another thing to persuade a boy to accept the advantages provided for him. As soon as a new cadet enters Castle Heights, he is given a copy of the Cadet Regulations. These are explicit. They tell him everything he needs to know about what is expected of him. After he has been al- lowed a reasonable period in which to adjust himself to his new environment, these Reg- ulations become his daily rule of life. Then the building-up process begins. Whenever a cadet does the right thing, he reaps the reward. This may not always be definite and immediate, but it comes. The cadet soon understands. There are certain privileges that he wants, holiday afternoons that he would like to enjoy, military and academic distinctions that he covets. When- ever he does the wrong thing, he pays the price. This isn't a special rule laid down for him--it applies to every boy alikeg therefore, he learns not to resent it. A hay is a rational creature. In a surpris- ingly short time he learns that the more he gives of the best there is in him, the happier he is.

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DUIRDOSE AND DISCIPLINE When he fails to prepare a lesson, he has committed a military offense. Probably he will spend an hour in delinquency study-hall that afternoon, between drill and parade. If his grades are consistently poor, he goes under academic confinement, which means that he can- not leave post until they are improved. He begins to study! He is taught how to prepare his quarters for inspec- tion. The floor is sweptg every drawer is open, its con- tents neatly arrangedg his bed is made up with clean lineng his uniforms hang on certain hooksg his clothing is folded thus and so on open shelvesg the broom is behind the door, his polished shoes are in a row under the foot of the bedg there is no trash behind the radiator, no dust on the top of the dresser, his person is immac- ulate from his toes to the top of his head. He begins to he neat and orderly! From reveille until taps he is under authority. He spends three-fourths of the day doing as he is told. Curiously enough, he does not object to it. He never talks back. He never argues. Within a month he would never dream of questioning an order. He is fitting him- self to give orders. He begins to ohey! He is punctilious in the rendering of courtesy to his superiors. He salutes with a snap. He jumps to atten- tion when an ofhcer passes him in the hall or enters his quarters. He prefaces his remarks with Sin He knocks at a door once, and waits. He reports his pres- ence deferentially, on approaching those of higher rank than his own. He begins to he respectful! At first it seems to him that military life is made up of countless impossible requirements. He forgets to take his book to class-and pays the price. He turns his head in ranks, forgetting that he is at attention-and pays the price. He neglects to wear his blouse down town-and pays the price. He fails to hear the bugle, he is a half minute late getting to his quarters-and pays the price. In two weeks he is looking ahead as he never looked ahead in his life before. He begins to think! And so this process of moulding the boy, most of it while he is utterly unconscious that it is happening, goes on day after day in every phase of his school life. The ideal of discipline at Castle Heights is nothing hut a continuous effort to apply 100 per cent common sense. Let the clock at home time the boy at school. A Day at Castle Heights in Word and Picture. Castle Heights is prepared to tell you, in advance just what your boy in all likelihood will be doing at any hour of the day or night while he is a cadet at the Academy. The cadet day at Castle Heights begins at 6:30 A.M., when first call sounds. Reveille is five minutes later, and if you look at your clock at 6:50, when assembly is sounding on the Hilltop, you may know that the cadet body, your son among its members, is in company forma- tion, and that his name is being called by a first ser- geant. He is fully uniformed. His room, by the way, WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST RIFLE TROPHY