Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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KEMPERETMILITARYMSCIIOOL 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 men of experience and approved character insures small classes and thorough supervision. 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 universi- ties in the United States that admit on certincate. It is meeting the require- ments of the University of Missouri as a junior college and its work will be accepted by colleges and universities without examination. 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 recent 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 devel- opment 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 completeg its pat- ronage is from the best families of the Middle Westg the charges are moder- ate 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, SZl1J6l'f7IfU71df'H f. Among the most helpful influences at Kemper in forming a boy's character are the daily chapel talks given by the super- intendent. These talks are short and cover all the problems that confront the boy. Some of the most effective talks are on the following subjects: Hoe Out Your Row The Cleansing of the Way The Rewards of Wisdom The Strange Woman The Whimperer The Example of a Great Life Tobacco and Youth The Virtue of Obedience The Gambler Lincoln Fidelity in Little Matters The Unlicked Cub The Polished Front Profanity Honor Thy Father Rumors Treasures of the Bible Peace With Thy Neighbors Thrift Puppy Love The Glutton The Truest Honor Paying for a Whistle Wheat and Chaff The Circumspect Walk The Cliff Driver The Quitter The Reservationist Arrested Development Rocks in the Machinery I S

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KEMPERmMlLlTARYMSCHOOL other pleasures too frequently fill the time. Parents are too busy or too much out of touch with their children to know what their children are doing, or find it impossible to regulate matters because of lax discipline of other parents. A correspondent for the Saturday 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 first-class and other busi- ness men listen to my opinions with respect, but as a parent I am a fiat fail- ure. If I had no better control over the subordinates in my ofiice than I have over those members of my household who are supposed to be subordinates 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 ob- servation, that an incompetent boss usually demoralizes the peo- ple under him. If he isn't up to his job, his subordinates-espe- cially 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 con- clude 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. Ilike his children very well, 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. Kemper Military School offers itself for this service. You may well ap- preciate the happy condition that exists at Kemper where all boys are under the same rule, where there is no divided authority and where this danger time is filled with profitable activities such as military drill, athletics, recreation, su- pervised study, etc. It gives boys who have reached the high school or early years of college the education and training necessary to complete their prepara- tion 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 sup- presses what is wrong or harmful. Kemper is no educational experiment, as is indicated by the facts detailed elsewhere showing its history of eighty years of continuous operation in one Puyv Sir

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