Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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Y , Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. - EMizRsoN. pKI.MPERMMILIVTARYUKSCLTOOLYA requirements of the University of Missouri and the North Central Association as a junior college and its work is accepted by colleges and universities without examination. The school .possesses superior facilities for looking after the health and physical dlelvelopment of its pupils. A sound body is necessary for successful training and scholar' s p. 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 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 completeg its patronage is from the best families of the Middle Westg 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. I hope that you will become interested and entrust your boy to us. Ready for a Chapel Address Very respectfully, President. 6 Among the most helpful influences at Kemper in forming a boy's character are the weekly chapel talks by the President. 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 The Virtue of Obedience The Gambler Rumors Treasures of the Bible Peace With Thy Neighbors Thrift Puppy Love The Glutton The Truest Honor Paying for a Whistle Lincoln Wheat and Chaif Fidelity in Little Matters The Cireumspeet Walk The Unlicked Cub The Cuff Driver The Polished Front The Quitter P1'0fHUitY The Reservationist Honor Thy Father George Washington I7l Arrested Development Rocks in the Machinery

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Education - a debt due from present to future generations - PBABODY fKF.MPERYMMILIVTARYMIVSCHVOOLA the afternoon and the evening with nothing to do but amuse himself. His companions of both sexes are as idle as he, and a condition results that is profitless, harmful and always potentially dangerous. Idleness does not make muscular or moral fiber, or furnish visions and ideals, or prepare a boy for man's estate. Another problem of adolescence is sex. The problem is aggravated by cofeducation. At this age girls mature more rapidly than boys to the disadvantage and embarrassment of boys in class competition. Boys do far better school work when in classes composed of boys only, where the subject matter is presented by men and for boys. As bad as the problem is in school it becomes most acute after school hours when boys and girls, both idle, are left to provide their own entertainment for the rest of the day. Picture shows, good and bad, long rides in automobiles, unchaperoned parties, uncontrolled athletics, and other pleasures too frequently fill their time. Parents are too busy or too much out of touch with their children to know what their children are doing, or hnd it impossible to regulate matters because of the 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 firstfclass 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 sub' ordinates 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 subordif nates - especially 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 nextfdoor neighbor's children I wouldn't for a minute let them do some of the things they do now, ale though my own children do pretty much the same. I like 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 thgnklwg need a class of professional parents to take charge of children and be just and kind to them - but not oo is . Kemper Military School offers itself for this service. You may well appreciate 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, supervised study, etc. It gives boys who have reached the high school or early years of college 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 foundation of the habits and aptitudes of the efficient man, especially striving to create an environment that develops the best in the boy, and suppresses what is wrong or harmful. Kemper is no educational experiment, as is indicated by the facts detailed elsewhere - showing its history of eightyffive 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 collegeftrained 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 universities in the United States that admit on certificate. It meets the Il6ll

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