Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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This course is open only to those cadets who are high school graduates. OUTLINE OF TWO-YEAR COURSE Accounting I Typewriting Commercial Law Economics M Salesmanship H SECOND YEAR: Accounting II Business English Business Arithmetic Finance and Banking ACCOUNTING I: A study of the fundamentals of double entry accounting. A student is taught the entire ac- counting cycle composed of journal entries, posting, working sheet, adjusting and closing entries, profit and loss, balance sheet, and post-closing trial balance, for a sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation, with emphasis on the ability to reason out the appropriate debits and credits, and not mere clerical procedure. TYPEWRITING: Typewriting is taught for its personal use value as well as for the purpose of giving a boy a chance to advance in the business world. A speed of forty words per minute is required for the first year, which is reached by 95 per cent of the students. ACCOUNTING II: The second year of accounting consists of a thorough application of the principles of accounting, with emphasis on the corporation type of business enter- prise. Cost Accounting and auditing are taught during the second term. COMMERCIAL LAW: A course covering the important branches of the law as they concern the problems which arise daily in the business world, the study of commercial law is stressed in any course which leads to a career in that Held. The subjects which are covered in this course include the following: 1. Administration of the Law 2. Contracts 9. Master and Servant 3. Sales 10. Partnership 4. Bailments 11. Corporations 5. Carriers 12. Insurance 6. Negotiable Instruments 13. Real Property 7. Suretyship and Guaranty 14. Torts 8. Agency 15. Crimes The course also includes lectures by law professors from Cumberland University Law School and observation classes at the regular Law School Moot Court trials. ECONOMICS: This is a course primarily for beginners in the field of economics. The aim of the course is to draw a comparison between the theory of economists and the general practice of the modern industrial world. In the first part of the course the theory of production, distribution, and consumption, the principles of banking, and international trade are studied. In the latter part our governmental system is viewed, and an exhaustive survey is made of such problems as unemployment, labor unions, taxes, wages and hours, and tariffs. The student prepares papers on economic problems under careful supervision of the instructor, and in general practical economics supplants theoretical study. BUSINESS ENGLISH: This course deals with all types of business communications, from inter-office transactions to sales letters and collection letters. The object of the course is to teach young men the fundamentals of Eng- lish so that they may carry on social and business trans- actions more efficiently. BUSINESS ARITHMETICZ We take up problems that the bus- iness man meets daily and work them out, thus preparing the student to solve, more quickly and more easily, the problems which will arise in the business world. FINANCE AND BANKING: We study the organization of all types of businesses, especially the corporation. From this course the student can get a very thorough knowledge of how corporations are formed, financed and controlled. SALESMANSI-IIP: It is impossible to teach a man to be a salesman but in this course the student learns the fun- damental requirements of salesmanship. Every student in the class has a chance for practical application of these fundamentals. The full course in Business Administration requires two years and leads to the school certifrate at its completion. CADET AT BOOKKEEPING MACHINE

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RELIGION AN RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES Religion at Castle Heights is frankly Christian but defi- nitely non-sectarian. It is felt that, in a mixed group, the approach to the problem of religious inspiration is most direct when made from the standpoint of a boy's basic religious instinct rather than from the point of view of any sectarian teaching as such. Since all cadets are re- quired to attend the churches of their choice down town each Sunday, they can still keep up with their denomina- tional training. In addition to church attendance a period is devoted each Sunday morning to group Bible study under experi- enced and devoted Sunday school teachers. Every boy in school attends. Boys attending these sessions may receive credit in their home Sunday schools so that those working on long-term attendance records need not have them interrupted by coming to Castle Heights. Chapel services are held each Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the beautiful and spacious MacFadden Audi- torium led by faculty officers, the cadets themselves, the chaplain and various outside speakers. There are therefore at Castle Heights many unusual opportunities for boys to nurture and develop their spiritual as well as their mental and physical lives. One of the strongest influences for the good of the Corps is that which is wielded by the Heights-Y. Membership in the unselfish organization is considered as somewhat of a distinction among the cadets. It func- tions in the nature of a school service club and its activities are many and various. Promoting movies on Saturday night is but one of their numerous projects. A beautiful Bible was a recent gift for use in the new Chapel. Under the leadership of Major Tom Harris these boys are COUNSELING getting invaluable training in community service and leadership. COUNSELING Guidance, at its best, is individual. Mutual confidence and understanding is the first great requisite of successful counseling. As we all look back over our youth, we realize that the greatest influences in our early lives were those brought about, often incidentally, through our associations with older people who were genuinely interested in our men- tal, moral, and spiritual growth and development. In Castle Heights each cadet is studied as an individual and is assigned to a faculty officer who feels that he can most easily win his confidence and friendship. This instruc- tor may be the boy's own division ofhcer, one who has visited in his home, or one who has some special reason for being close to the boy. Living close to the boy twenty-four hours each day, he is constantly available for a discussion and appreciation of any problems that may arise, and the cadet knows that, if he so desires, his discussion will be kept in strictest confidence. If his grades are low, if he is getting too many demeritsg or if he is troubled about the choice of a vocation, he will be called in for a discussion with a highly qualified and understanding counselor. Special effort is made to find the reason for his difficulties, and the best means of correcting them is sought. If his problem is of a vocational nature, specific aptitude and interest tests are suggested and admin- istered, and suggestions for follow-up studies are made. A well-equipped vocational library is found in the guidance office and is used freely by all cadets, particularly those seniors who are seriously concerned about their future careers. To deepen their spiritual life and to broaden their knowledge of religion and its relation to daily living, a large and earnest group of campers leaders have banded them- selves together in the Heights Christian Fel- lowship. Any interested cadets are always welcomed at the mid-week devotional meet- ings, which are conducted in large part by the boys themselves under the direction of a member of the staff trained in both the religious and educational fields. -cm? ' M

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SDEEDED READING AND SDEEEING AT CASTLE HEIGHTS Often it happens that a boy is sincere and hard-work- ing in his efforts to prepare his assignments, the indica- tions are that he wants to study and knows the proper procedure, aptitude tests indicate that he is of normal or even superior intelligence, yet he does not make pro- gress. What is the difficulty? Many times the answer will be the same, Bill does not know how to read. On the secondary level very little is being done about it because many school authorities insist that reading is a job for the elementary school, and if Bill and all the rest do not learn, they will never be good readers. As a result of tests made at Castle Heights the indi- cation was that about forty per cent of the cadet corps did not measure up to the standards of what a boy of his age and grade should do. This statement would be true, applied to any normal high school. As an individual case a boy may be best at oral read- ing. This condition would account, to some extent, for his being a slow silent reader-he can read no faster than his lips will move. Other boys find their greatest difficulty in oral reading. Such condition necessitates phonetic drill which also proves a great help in spelling. As a third type, there is the boy who reads a paragraph or a page and then has no idea of what he has read. He has to spend so much effort on the actual mechanics of reading that he has no attention left to apply to the contents of the material read. At Castle Heights nationally standardized reading tests are administered to the cadets to determine their rate, vocabulary, and comprehension of reading. If a boy shows any indication that poor reading is the cause of lack of proper or normal achievement, he is placed in a reading clinic for remedial work. There he is given addi- tional tests to determine whether or not his trouble is comprehension, rate of reading, knowledge of vocabu- lary, sentence meaning, paragraph comprehension, loca- tion of information, or remembrance of material read. He then is placed in a special reading class, which meets three times each week, and an attempt is made to help him overcome his difiiculties. In extreme cases, he may drop one of his academic subjects so that he may apply more time and energy to his remedial work. No actual grades are given in this reading work, but from time to time additional standardized tests are given to determine what progress is being made. Our experience has been that as a result of this con- centration of effort on reading, boys who have been failing work have often brought their grades to a place well above the minimum passing level. Typically the poor reader has never liked to read. Proper corrective measures have resulted in his learning how to read, read- ing of his own record, and liking the experience. Spelling. Nationally standardized spelling tests rec- ommended by the Educational Records Bureau are a part of the battery of tests given to cadets during the fall test- ing program. Cadets who have spelling deficiencies are placed in small classes that meet twice each week. Cadets are then issued a copy of the spelling book, The Self- Teaching Speller, edited by Dr. Wheeler, and the English Department uses this and other related materials to im- prove the spelling and vocabulary of each cadet. Cadeis improving their comprehension and reading rate by praciice on SRA Reading Accelerators. DR. WHEELER