Severn School - Yearbook (Severna Park, MD)

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SCHOLASTIC HONOR SHIELD The graduating class of 1924 presented to the School a shield on which is to be inscribed each year the name of the student having the highest general average in the graduating class. Awards have been made as follows: For 1924 Robert G. Ballance, of Chicago, Illinois, 1925 Oliver Clark, of Linthicum, Maryland. 1926 Robert S. Cooper, of Wardour, Maryland. 1927 H. Douglas Gray, of Douglas, Alaska. 1928 Earl P. Finney, Ir., of Norfolk, Virginia. 1929 Thomas H. Morton, of Annapolis, Maryland. 1930 Frank L. Pinney, Jr., of Washington, D.C. 1931 Edward Gaw Smith, of Boston, Massachusetts. 1932 John D. Hewitt, 3rd, of Brarnwell, West Virginia. 1933 Carl R. I-lirschberger, of South Orange, New jersey. 1934 Harold S. Hamlin, jr., of Orlando, Florida. 1935 William T. Sawyer, of Gardner, Massachusetts. 1936 Edwin Malloy, Ir., of Cheraw, South Carolina. 1937 Lee Manning Wiggins, of Hartsville, South Carolina 1938 Raymond M. Krepps, Jr., of Lewistown, Pennsylvania 1939 jermain S. Irish, of Washington, D.C. 1940 Albert G. Harrigan, of Norwich, New York. 1941 Calvin H. Cobb, Ir., of Annapolis, Maryland. 19

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CERTIFICATES Severn School is accredited by the Department of Education of the State of Maryland, and by the United States Naval Academy and the United States Military Academy. The School issues certificates of graduation to students who satis- factorily complete the college preparatory course. Special certificates for admission to college or to the Service acad- emies are issued to qualified students. Before such certificates will be issued the student must have given evidence that he is thoroughly equipped to pursue successfully the course he has in mind. A bad con- duct record, a tendency to do as little as possible and just squeeze through, or general inaptitude for the course in mind will be con- sidered suilicient cause for withholding a certificate. DISTRIBUTION OF SEVERN GRADUATES The student body at Severn is drawn from all sections of the country, and the graduates enter institutions in widely distributed areas. Among the institutions entered by students from Sevem are the Naval Academy, West Point, Coast Guard Academy, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Rensselaer Poly- technic, Nlassachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Yale, Prince- ton, Lehigh, Lafayette, Pennsylvania State, University of Pennsyl- vania, Iohns Hopkins, University of Maryland, St. Johns, Univer- sity of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Arkansas, Stanford and California Institute of Technology. 18

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NAVAL ACADEMY AND WEST POINT EXAMINATION COURSE TUDENTS in this course are assigned to special sections in the various subjects in which they will be examined. For the Naval Academy the subjects are English grammar, com- position and literature, algebra, plane and solid geometry, physics, chemistry and American history. For West Point the subjects are English grammar, composition and literature, algebra, plane geometry, American history and Ancient history. Severn has had an excellent record of success in this work, due to the advantageous conditions underlwhich a boy works here. Placed in small classes, so that his weak points can beleasily detected and remedied, and with an experienced faculty, some of whom are always at hand to give assistance and direction, he can readily build up the thorough foundation that will bring not only success in the entrance examinations but in the Academy also. The Erst year at either Academy is the most CliEC11lC. Fully eighty per cent of the failures occur during the first year. That is due to a poor beginning on the part of the midshipman or cadet, while he is adjusting himself to the new conditions under which he must live and work, and during that time he is called upon to cover ground in his work much more rapidly than any college requires. The first two or three months' work will in most cases determine whether he will succeed or fail. As additional preparation for the course in the Academy, the period from the time of the examinations to the end of the school year is devoted to introductory courses in the subjects ofthe first term work at the Service academies. These courses include engineering drawing, use of slide rule, college algebra, trigonometry, solid geom- etry, chemistry and modern languages. NECESSITY OF TI-IOROUGH PREPARATION FOR THE NAVAL ACADEMY OR WEST POINT Too often those whose ambition it is to become naval oflicers or army oflicers do not have a clear understanding of the exacting re- 20