Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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DAILY SCHEDUH demonstrated ability, each cadet is given an opportunity to use this knowledge in actually conducting instruction. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 2:10 to 3:30, and on Wednesday from 2:10 to 3:00 you may know that your boy is building up brain and body in the open air, inclement weather alone interfering. On such rare afternoons this time is devoted to lectures by members of the military staff on such subjects as hygiene, minor tactics, map reading, and military history. From 3:30 to 4:30 comes athletic hour, when every boy participates in his favorite sport. From 4:30 until 5:30 comes afternoon study hall, a delinquency school for those cadets whose recitations of the morning have fallen below requirements. Athletic hour for others. The sun is setting over the blue foothills of the Cum- berland Mountains, there is the blare of a bugle, the signal for assembly-the scene changes-boys who were wearing bathing suits, track ensemble or perhaps football regalia an hour before are all dressed alike- in cadet gray uniforms. The Battalion stands at atten- tion-bugles play the Star Spangled Banner and the colors are slowly lowered. It makes an impressive, beautiful ceremony that lingers in the memory through the life of every cadet. Orders again-music-march to supper. Is there any wonder that the red-blooded boy loves the real military school? The program is varied, however, on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, when all are free for outdoor games, for hikes and expeditions, for strolls to town and perhaps a visit to the motion picture theatre-all, except those who have demerits. These spend the afternoon in study hall, one hour for each demerit. On Saturday morning comes the most rigid inspection of the week, first of quarters and then personally of the cadet under arms. The mother may well glance at the clock and think of her son at 10:30 A.M. Saturdays, but she will scarcely be able to dream of the neatness of which her boy is now proving capable, or to conceive it possible that he should ever clean up a room to such a degree of perfec- tion. But he does, and he doesn't mind doing it-he is proud of his accomplishment. Imagine yourself without a servant, and your son, having done all his own work, inviting you to enter, and challenging you to find one handkerchief folded the wrong way, one spot in the soap-dish, one particle of trash on the floor, one book out of place, one drawer in disorder, one odd or end shoved out of sight, or dust anywhere! On Sundays the cadets attend services in the Lebanon churches. Bible study is conducted on the Hill-top at 9:30 A.M. Members of the faculty serve as instructors and the International Sunday School lessons are used. Sunday afternoons are free until parade, and for many years it has been the custom to encourage in the evening a Y.M.C.A. service conducted by the cadets themselves, a faculty officer assisting. Supper is served at 6:00 P.M., after which reports are answered to the Commandant or his assistant. At 6:50 another bugle sounds first call, and at 7:00 follows call to quarters, marking the beginning of a period which is perhaps scarcely possible to be duplicated in all school

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CAPTAIN JACK CARR Assistant P. M. 5. and T. CASTLE HEIGHTS When your clock at home points to 7 o'clock, your boy is going to breakfast at the Academy. At the word of command, the long lines march steadily and silently, every head to the front, into the mess-hall, where your son goes immediately to his chair, standing behind it at attention until he hears the command Seats, There is a movement of chairs, and again a silence until the com- mand Rest. The tables accommodate eight cadets each, the ranking men at the head and foot respectively. On these devolves the responsibility for the conduct at the table, but here and there around the attractive hall are faculty tables as well, where the officers, their wives and families, join regularly with the cadet body. Sick call sounds at 7:40, the Corps marches out from breakfast, and finds a trained nurse waiting at the in- firmary to see all cadets in need of her ministrations, and then from 8:15 until 1 o'clock come the class periods. Dinner is at 1:10 P.lVl. Your clock at home is still keeping time for your boy at school. At 2:10 P.M. comes drill for the companies and practice for the band. The band is one of the fea- tures of Castle Heights life. It is directed by a compe- tent faculty officer, and private lessons may be arranged for on the various band instruments. The companies march to the drill field, and there are instructed in close order or extended order drill, or in the ceremonies. Each company functions as a separate unit under the watchful eyes of the Military Department and the Cadet Battalion Staff. In due course, all cadets learn proper methods of instruction as prescribed by the Department of the Army. According to individually DRESS PARADE4Sunday afternoon in Lebanon is synono- mous with Dress Parade at Castle Heights. This is a most colortul spectacle and attracts not only a large crowd of local people but many from Nashville and more distant places lend inspiration to the cadets by their presence.

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