Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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and cold water and meeting every sanitary requirement. ln the basement are the laundry and tailoring departments, shooting gallery, photographer's dark room, etc. 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 oflices and recitation rooms, and a large, well furnished and attractive library. The second and third fioors 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 5 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 miltary and athletic departments, enabling them to carry on their work regardless of weather conditions. Additional buildings include an armory C erected this yearj, a model dairy barn, garage, etc. -..gl W -Q -.AL1..x.'....' 1- SVRVEYJVKADE -BY ' ff KEMP1-:iz-cADB1's - fo ' Accv12A1'.r: 'DRAXVING or'scHoo1.GRovNDs ' 1 '--- ij QIDNH-..,x Q 'SKU l' 1r7f'X.X Q , SI ge? i77l,!jj Six. . Q, F .J X- D S QS Q Pegs Q CJ Q I , K J Q X, ID QI Q ll F B N-X. U6 0 Q1 Q i T U To Q S B 'XXXIXAXL -N. a Qggiggilff N U 44, ,.1. ...-'11 f-,: '--L ff., 'l-T l'Ei2l'P ' Quarter rw: om mf and zza ya smfqnrawqy ,nfiilir '.f'f,1f I--11. Y .nv-E1--3: vm4.o,f..fre.-.- .--is .faf.mf,.i.-.1,'..J.v mums.: :1.:.11:1TT2:2 'sv4v,1-W3 U ,f'f!'T.i'Q5.f75 45' 'I -if'- ' :- 1 ---------- - XQNR Q Anfyfff- '. 5 5 g 'sa . . V - X 1 I X 3 1 : If 0 Qs 5 T 9 Q to lo - i ' O ' 0, I . Q I I o , I 0 0 Q 0 9 0 I 5 9 0 o 9 fl III IIC field d q new dull ground f o ff, 9 5 ,X J f I- 'pr' X! 141' L..l 8 Ld ff o: .- - fy ,f' 0 i' ff I X! U' f ,f KEMPER MILITARY SCHOOL . Q f f .f A 'A' Barracks 6 Prfm:palsl?esldencc . Q T f. If 2. 'B1Barraclf.s 7 Fowtrl1au.1e - . X' J 'C Barracks 8 Post Enchanqc 'K l X - 'I Gymnasru 3 Tzrqct Butt M ,, - I l 5 Concr t Cowl I0 Farad: Ground 0. I 0 I lTCrndcrD wsnndfhfhsll Spring Camp ,.,,,, 0 . GED: IZ Drums Courts wyryzrf l'- 0 .I . Ifmlfencc li BdScbl1IlD1am0nJ N 2 mwy CadCfS p pn ' s sm f V- Il C3 lj DMS l K I ll . I , 0 Q o ., l I B 0 0 0 , Q I 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 c A powerful contributor to good individual work is the small size of the classes. An average of ten boys to a class is maintained. 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' Halls The average boy while preparing his lessons needs a good deal of attention in the way of assistance, encouragement, and supervision g 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. Two evening study halls are maintained and are presided over by the best teachers obtainable. The only boys allowed to study in their rooms are from thirty to forty each week who stand highest in scholarship and deportment. l Two Views in Large Study Hall page eleven