Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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eidrev to avents 9fl5ogs N connection with the rearing of your son you are, no doubt, con- fronted with numerous and per- plexing problems. You have for him ideals of learning, culture, character and manhood that he seems more or less unlikely to attain. His personality is mysterious and you find yourself lacking in the power to understand him and especially in the time needed to devote to the solution of the problems that he presents. COLONEL T. A. JOHNSTON A correspondent of the Saturday Superintendent Evening Post presents the matter thus: I have been a good deal interested lately in scientific management, the main principle of which seems to be that a man ought to look over his work carefully and find out where he is weak. In some ways I am a successful man. I have built up a good business-my credit at the bank is Hrst-class and other business men listen to my opinions with respectg but as a parent I am a flat failure. If I had no better control over the subordinates in my office than I have over those members of my household who are supposed to be subordinate to me, I should be 'broke' in six months. I know a number of men who are trying to hold down jobs for which they are plainly incompetent, and I have considerable contempt for them. I think they ought to clear out and turn the jobs over to men who are competent. I know, too, from my business observation, that an incompetent boss usually demoralizes the people under him. If he isn't up to his job his sub- ordinateseeespecially the younger ones,-don't really have a fair show. I argue that, as an incompetent parent, I must be having a bad influence on my children. As I look over the families of my friends, I conclude that at least 50 per cent of parents are no more up to the job than I am. Also, I notice this: If I had charge of my next-door neighbor's children I wouldn't for a minute let them do some of the things they do now, although my own children do pretty much the same. I like his children very wellg yet I am not so besotted but that I would stop them from doing things that are harmful. Very likely he would stop my children too. I think we need a class of professional parents to take charge of children and be just and kind to them but not foolish. page six

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Kemper Military School offers itself for this service. It gives boys who have reached or passed the seventh or eighth grade of the public schools the education and training necessary to complete their preparation for college, university or business life, and at the same time applies expert methods, developed by long and successful experience, to character building and the formation of the habits and aptitudes of the efficient man, especially striving to create an environment that develops the best in the boy, and supresses what is wrong or harmful. Kemper is no educational experiment, as is indicated by the facts detailed elsewhere showing its history of nearly seventy-five years of continuous operation in one locality, under only two heads. The School has grown to its present status through its own merit, without the aid of churches, boards, or benefactors. It has a wide patronage, a large faculty of college trained man of experience and approved character, sufficient to insure small classes and thorough supervision of work and deportment. It is considered by the University of Missouri as one of its best preparatory schools. Its graduates are admitted without examination to all colleges and universities in the United States that admit on certificate. The school possesses superior facilities for looking after the health and physical development of its pupils. A sound body is necessary for successful training and scholarship. These facts should serve to assure prospective patrons that their boys will have the benefit of methods and influences that have stood the test of time and won the approbation of a long succession of previous patrons. Military school methods are not designed primarily to make soldiers, but the training proves invaluable in meeting an emergency like the present one. The social environment of the school is good. The cadet honor system and strict discipline quickly eliminate the unsuitable boy. Military training is used as a formative process, which attends better than any other method to all details of habit and personality and insures adequate and proper development of every power, instead of leaving much of the process to chance with resultant failure and damage. The material equipment of the School is excellent and complete g its patronage is from the best families of the Middle West, the charges are moderate for the advantages offered. Full particulars are given in the following pages. You are invited to visit the School and learn its merits at first hand. It is hoped that you will become interested and entrust your boy to us. Very respectfully, ' E , 041.11-r S -gi Superintendent. page seven