Tennessee Military Institute - Radiogram Yearbook (Sweetwater, TN)

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TENNESSEE MILITARY INSTITUTE DESIGNATED . HONOR MILITARY SCHOOL RADIOGRAM WASHINGTON, D. C. Cvia Fort McPherson, Georgiaj JUNE 11, TSSS SUPEETNTENEENT, TENNESSEE MILITARY INSTITUTE, SVVEETVIIATER, TENNESSEE. TENNESSEE MILITARY INSTITUTE SELECTED AS AN HONOR MILITARY SCI-IOOL NII'-IETEEN TIIIRTYLSIX. SECRETARY OE WAR EXTENDS CONGRATULATIONS . CONLEY ADJUTANT GENERAL TENNESSEE MILITARY INSTITUTE WAS SELECTED AS HONOR MILITARY SCHOOL IN I922, I927, I928, I929, I930, l93I, I932, I933, I934, I935, AND I936 MEANING OF THE TERM HONOR MILITARY SCHOOL Iiaeh year a board of inspectors, composed of army officers specially chosen for the duty, make an inspet- tion of the military schools for the purpose of selecting the schools in thc United States showing the highest total percentage on a rating sheet of about thirty subdivisions. Some of these subdivisions refer to highly technical matters in military instruction. However, the major portion of the inspection is based on inaiters about which every thoughtful parent, considering schools, is concerned, among which the following may be mentioned: 1. ADEQUACY OF BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT. 2. GENERAL SANITATION AND CLEANLINESS OF PREMISES AND BUILDINGS. 3 NEATNESS OF UNIFORMS3 CONDITION OF CADET QUARTERS AND PERSONAL EQUIP- MENT. 4. EFFICIENCY AND THOROUGHNESS OF MILITARY INSTRUCTION. 5. EXCELLENCE OF SCHOOL GOVERNMENT AND DISCIPLINE AS SHONVN BY COURTIQSY AND PROMPT RESPONSIVENESS OF CADETS. tm. JUDGMENT, INITIATIVE, AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPED IN CADET COMMISSIONED AND NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS, DEMONSTRATED IN VARIOUS DIFFICULT AND IZXACTING TESTS. It will be noted that these are matters of fundamental interest to parents, separate and apart from mili- tary schools. The distinction of HONOR SCHOOL designation is much coveted among military schools. The schools inspected are located over the area from New York to New Mexico and from Minnesota and Wis- consin to the Gulf of Mexico. TENNESSEE MILITARY INSTITUTE is one of the schools selected for this distinction through the inspection of 1936, as shown in the radiogram quoted above.

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TO BOYS AND PARENTS WHO RECEIVE THIS CATALOG... HIS catalog represents an effort on our part to place before you the essential facts about Tennessee Military Institute-embracing some facts about its history, its faculty, courses of study offered, general policies, stu- dent activities, cost of attendance, etc. Nevertheless, We feel that the catalog does not adequately represent the school. In fact, We doubt Whether the print and picture of a catalog can ever be made adequately to represent the life and power and spirit of a school of the type that really gets a grip on its pupils and leads them on to bigger and nobler accomplishments. There is something about such a school that must be seen and felt to be appreciated. We believe that Tennessee Military Insti- tute is such a school. Therefore, we urge you to COME TO SWEETWATER and see the school in its setting and amid its beautiful surroundings. If you have not made a trip through beautiful East Tennessee, it is a treat you ovve yourself apart from any interest in selecting a school. Towering mountains, gorgeous in summer ffrequently snow-capped in vvinterj, small rivers hurry- ing from the mountains, ever-changing panoramas of ridges and foothills, Well- kept farm premises, and Wonderful roads, all combine to make it a trip long to be remembered. Again We say COME TO SWEETWATER and see the school. Such a trip, enjoyable in itself, will do more to give you a clear idea concerning the school than reams of correspondence or hours of talk With school representatives. Thus you Will see the situation in Which our boys live, and Work, and play-a situation from Which, since 1874, many hun- dreds of young men have gone forth into Worth-vvhile achievement in many professions and lines of business.