Hargrave Military Academy - Cadence Yearbook (Chatham, VA)

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CADET PRAYER 0 God, our Father, Thou searcher of men's hearts, help us to draw near to Thee in sincerity and truth. May our religion be filled with glad- ness and may our worship of Thee be natural. Strengthen and increase our admiration for hon- est dealing and clean thinking, and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretense ever to dimin- ish. Encourage us in our endeavor to live above the common level of life. Make us choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half truth when the whole can be won. Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear when truth and right are in jeopardy. Guard us against flippancy and ir- 0BJ UTIVE Hargrave Military Academy undertakes: 1. To maintain a wholesome environment, stress character building and spiritual development, both by precept and example. 2. To maintain a pleasant, homelike atmosphere with proper care for the comfort, diet and general happiness of the student body. 3. To provide, insofar as possible, individual at- tention both from the educational and per- sonal points of view. E-it 4. To maintain a Military Training program emphasizing physical exercise and the de- velopment of such traits as punctuality, obedience, orderliness, respect for constituted authority, reverence for our flag and national institutions, a sense of personal responsibility, self-reliance, and leadership, as well as the building of strong, graceful bodies. reverence in the sacred things of life. Grant us new ties of friendship and new opportunities of service. Kindle our hearts in fellowship with those of a cheerful countenance and soften our hearts with sympathy for those who sorrow and suffer. May we find genuine pleasure in clean and wholesome mirth and feel inherent disgust for all coarse-minded humor. Help us, in our work and in our play, to keep ourselves physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight, that we may the better maintain the honor of the Corps untarnished and unsullied and acquit ourselves like men in our effort to realize the ideal of Hargrave in doing our duty to Thee and to our country. All of which we ask in the name of the Great Friend and Master of men.-Amen. 5. To provide a sports program which seeks to afford adequate physical training, to promote and develop a true conception and practice of sportsmanship, and to create a spirit of loyalty and co-operation. 6. To provide for faculty-sponsored activities, initiated by the students, and developed in accordance with their recreational, cultural and avocational interests. 7. To provide a corps of teachers trained to lead in academic and co-curricular explorations, interests and activities calculated to help the student discover his aptitudes and decide what he will do with his life. 8. To develop the adolescent youth into a well- rounded being, ready and willing to take his place in society, whatever that place may be.

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Hargrave Military Academy is a preparatory school of high grade, holding membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Virginia Preparatory Schools Association, The Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the lfnited States, and is accredited by the Virginia State Board of Iiducation, and by the National Bureau of Education. The aim of the academic department of Hargrave Military .Xcademy is not only to prepare a boy for college but to train him in those habits of study, industry, and perserverance which will enable him to remain in college after he has entered. Our work in the classroom is aimed not only to teach subject- mattcr acceptably but to develop character, for we believe that no boy will succeed ACADEMIC without both. 23