Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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IVIID CONTINLNT PUBLIC LIBRARY IIHIllllllllllllMljjlllllllllljlyllllllllHHH! KEMPER MILITARY SCI-IDOL BooNv1L1.1z: - MISSOURI U-HGH SCHOOL and J 11N IOR COLLEGE? CT u ed 0 nd by FREDERICK T. KBMPBR in 1844: PREPARATORY SCHOOL meeting the Highest Standards in trainin B d Y M f g oys an oung en or College and Business. GQ A JUNIOR COLLEGE fthe first two years of college Workj GC One of the Honor Schools of the United States since the establishment of that rating by the Government in 1914 Member North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools since 1907. GC Member Association Military Colleges and Schools of the United States. GC Member Private School Association of the Central States. GC Member American Assof ciation of Junior Colleges. YYY Catalogue 1929 flncorporated under the Laws of Missourij T A JOHNSTON . . . . . . . . Preszdent A M HITCH . . . . . . . Vice President A B BATES ...... . Secretary and Treasurer Directors T A JOHNSTON A. M. HITCH G. T. IRVINE A. B. BATES H C JOHNSTON

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And this our life, exempt from public haunts, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons m stones, and good in everythingf- SHAKESPEARE. .A Letter' to Parents of Boys V V GAVE N CONNECTION with the rearing of your son you are, no doubt, confronted with numerous and perplexing problems. You have for him X f ideals of learning, culture, character, and 'manhood' that he seems more or iiiiiigllif 151.20 Exif' t0HlfnSZiZffSf11 tiifi nliferiilfiiiiiilf illdtiiufffif needed to devote to the solution of the prdblems that he pfesents. Many of the problems that beset you and your boy are beyond your control. In the last twenty years the attendance of high schools has increased between 300 and 400 per cent with the result that the schools are woefully crowded, and classes are so large that boys who need personal attention receive little or none, lose interest in their work and drop out or fail. If a boy has graduated from high school and goes to a large university he receives little or no personal attention from the faculty, has no opportunity to particif pate in activities unless he is of outstanding merit, becomes lost in the crowd or is carried away with distractions, loses interest in his work, and drops out with very little profit from his university experience and sometimes with positive loss. The small college, which avoids some of these pitfalls, frequently offers too few attractions to interest the boy. Furthermore, modern conditions have handicapped the boy with idleness. The present day father grew up busy with chores of helping his father. The present day boy has no chores, and business is so specialized that few fathers can find a place in their business for their sons. The result is disastrous for the boy. He frequently has most of ll5ll T