St Thomas Military Academy - Kaydet Yearbook (Mendota Heights, MN)

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sented in the curriculum of St. Thomas Military Academy. For the classical scholar there is the field of languages and the literature of these varied languages—Latin, English, French, Spanish, German. The student at St. Thomas who wishes a liberal education will discover a wide and diversified range of subjects from which he may complete his curriculum. The various divisions of mathematics—algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, etc., are all essential requirements for the proper credits. The three main sciences—biology, chemistry, and physics are taught with a great deal of thoroughness and exactitude and their respective laboratories are more than adequately replete. Military life will undoubtedly appeal to some cadets and the training which one receives at St. Thomas is of the highest type, available to the high school student. St. Thomas has been designated as one of the ten best military schools in the nation. To attain this honor a school must first acquire the MS rating—that of a school which is essentially military in its training. One can readily see that such limitless opportunities afford the cadet every chance to acquire for himself an education of the finest type. With a faculty composed of clergy and laymen who are fully acknowledged teachers and most of whom are specialists in their different fields it is easy to sec that nothing has been left undone in helping the cadet to select his life’s work.

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OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN The cadet at St. Thomas is offered an unusually fine opportunity to acquire a very complete education. Whether it be a classical education, a liberal education, cr one embodying military principles, the various arts and sciences are well repre-

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EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES The cadets at St. Thomas do not, however, confine themselves to the field of scholastic assay. Availible also are extensive facilities for almost every field of extra-curricular endeavor. Our coaches are of the very finest type and turn out teams which do them credit; our faculty advisors have youth, forcefulness, and understanding. The faculty of St. Thomas favors participation in all sports because they realize that nowhere can sportsmanship and teamwork be taught so pleasantly as on the gridiron or the track; that leadership can be taught as effectively on the basketball court as on the drill floor. The academy has a reputation of turning out fighting, courageous teams which win a pretty fair share of their games. Besides the activities found in every school, St. Thomas has military units peculiar to military schools. Among these are numbered the rifle team, the crack squad, the crack platoon and several others. The excellence of each of these in its own field has carried the name of Sr. Thomas Military Academy far and wide. The cadets are urged to partake of the intellectual stimulation which is a result of the cultural and scientific activities offered by the many