Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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two single beds, table, chairs, and mirror. A faculty officer lives on each hall. Each floor is provided with first-class toilet and bath rooms, supplied with hot and cold water and meeting every sanitary requirement. In the basement are the laundry and tailoring departments. To provide for the increasing numbers, it was found necessary a few years ago to provide additional accommodations. To meet this need a commodious three-story building known as A Barracks was erected. Here is found ample room for the chemical and physical laboratories, the well equipped manual training department, several offices and recitation rooms, and a large, well furnished and attractive library. The second and third floors are devoted to cadet and faculty quarters, with an arrangement very similar to that of the Main Building. The Gymnasium contains a drill hall, armory, and bowling alleys, on the main floor, a gymnasium with a floor space of 3,600 square feet, a stage for theatricals, lectures, etc., a gallery, and dressing rooms. The building fully meets the require- ments of the military and athletic departments, enabling them to carry on their work regardless of weather conditions. ,J ...EH f, F151 Tux. ry 1, X Ig Q - 7 ' 5 Ili Ilfr 11 Ir! X-Xxlxlx il bg 1jf7 121 'XX- ? Se eff gi U XX Q1 Q Q El fx 5 'x-X, X 9060 Hffgfl E1 A TSX-X, al UD QU D ff ff X-Nc NU o -. ' ri K If ,e - ..-..--..-- 'XXX C9 -4 1 11429 , gf' i 5 ki Lifffw X. 2' 5 I ' , - 0 3 g 5 x : Y . if' Q 9 Q Io I - 4 I , o X E, i : YK i 4 0 G v 0 ..-,, .-. .. . . iii.. X . , A hl llcld and qcm-ml drill Luau ri il V f f ,f f f 0 ' 4' X V X 4 ff 'i'l' ,J f' i. , .t ,f' e ' -f LJ 0 ,Ag -,-,,,.---.-.-..-.-Aff 0 LJ ff-' ff' Q: f X - - f' ol' fmlfj ll . V 1 ff' .W ffl for . f ,f KEMPER MILITARY scHooL 1 1 J f 'X A 'A'Barracks 6 Prfn.1palSResldenrc . Q f f X fl J' 2. :BiBaVrac:.s 7 Zowe?:HaZJf . XXQ ,. X J L' Barra: 5 8 ost nc anqc II I Y . 'I Gymnasium 9 Kirqef Bu!! M s - X l Ii 5 Concrel c Caurl I0 Parade Ground 0. I i I I Iiflnder 0 1 :sand Paths ll Spring Camp ,,,,,, 0 KI l E1lB7rrr IZ Rnnrs Cuurfs 'gun l' nt I ' :.':Tn!Fencr AS Bz1sebl1llD1am0nJ N 2 ' C d n l I U U Tcnts 'V I 1 . f f I X l I' Q e Q - I page nine

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boy may at first think it a bit strenuous, but he soon learns the invaluable lesson that duties are to be performed and performed on time. The really energetic and ambitious boy realizes that it offers him a rare opportunity for advancement, for the idlers do not hold him back. The excellence of the system is attested by the fact that our scholarship winners are frequently boys that have done poorly in high school. When a boy has the right stuff in him he is willing and anxious to be held to a high standard. Small Classes A powerful contributor to good individual work is the small size of the classes. This year they have averaged ten. Large classes, with the consequent lack of attention to the individual student and his peculiarities and needs, are not to be found here. With small classes we are able to find the needs of every boy and meet them. The recitation periods are forty minutes long, laboratory, typewriting, and manual training periods are eighty. Study Hall The average boy while preparing his lessons needs a good deal of attention in the way of assistance, encouragement. and supervision, for this reason he is required to prepare his lessons in the study hall during the day and the evening under the direction of a teacher. Absolute order, perfect quiet, and strict atten- tion to lessons are required and maintained. Long experience has shown here and elsewhere that this system is preferable to any other. The only boys allowed to study in their rooms are from thirty to forty each week who stand highest in scholar- ship and deportment. , l Two Views in Large Study Hall l l page eleven