Tennessee Military Institute - Radiogram Yearbook (Sweetwater, TN)

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T0 BOYS... We invite you to a bit of self-analysis. Put a few questions to yourself. Are you making good on your present job-that of making a success of your schoolwork? If not, why? Is it not a fact that you could do a great deal better schoolwork than you have been doing? Is it not a fact that you would do a great deal better school- work if your companions would let you alone? When you decide to prepare your lessons better, are you not frequently called away by the ringing of the telephone, or the signal of an auto horn, inviting you to something more interesting than Algebra and Latin? Our intimate contacts with many hundreds of boys have convinced us that practically all boys want to make good, that even those who seem to be careless and reckless nurse a secret ambition to attain to something worth while. Yet it is a stern fact of life, known to every mature person, that it is the few who really succeed, while the 'many are swept along by the tides of the times, frolic away their proper period of preparation, are swallowed up in the common level of the untrained, and are forgotten. TENNESSEE MILITARY INSTITUTE helps boys to find their ambition and to make progress toward attaining it. Emphasis is kept on the important purposes for which a boy goes to school. He finds himself in a group striving for something worth while. He catches the spirit of the thing. He learns how to study and to get results. Yet life in such a school is not monotonous. The periods for athletics and recreation are just as carefully provided for as are the periods for study and recitation. Football, basket ball, baseball, and track furnish continuous in- terest through the year to all those interested in athletics. In addition to the varsity teams in these sports, there is keen competition for places on the re- serves, second, and third teams, also for places on the company teams in dif- ferent lines of sport. The rifle team always ranks among the best in the South. Letters are awarded the rifle team, just as in other sports. CSee page 65.1 Boxing, fencing, golf, tennis, and swimming add to the enjoyment of school life. Cross-country hikes appeal to many cadets. Boys in non-military schools cannot imagine the keen interest attaching to the preparation for and passing through the Honor School inspection period. To all these there is added the daily round of rollicking campus fun, un- planned, but entered into with the overiiowing spirits characteristic of a healthy bunch of boys, happy in their surroundings. Page Twelve

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If you, as a parent, have already given thought to these problems and have written for a number of school catalogs in your efforts to find a solution, perhaps you are now still more perplexed as to which way you should turn. Some catalogs appear to claim too many excellencies g others seem not to make any particular claim and to outline no definite policy. Instead of attempting to tell you what we can do for your boy in Tennes- see Military Institute, we would much prefer to let some of our patrons tell you what we have accomplished with their boys. It is quite probable that we have had some boy from a section near you, where it will be easy to ar- range for a conference or an exchange of communications. Therefore, here is our request: First, write us about your boy. Give us just as many facts as possible about him and his work. Give us his age and grade, what work he seems to take to most readily, his habits, his athletic and social interests. It is almost certain that your description of him will call to our minds some boy of similar temperament and interests who has been with us. It is almost equally certain that the parents of that boy will be happy to tell you what they know of this school and what it accomplished with their boy. Second, accept our suggestion on an earlier page of making a trip of in- vestigation and inspection. We want you to know, in advance, everything possible about T. M. I. Your acceptance of these two suggestions will make this possible. If, however, it is not convenient for you to make the trip sug- gested, let us know that you would like to have a personal conference with a member of our faculty, and we will undertake to provide for it. We hope to have an early letter from you about your boy. Very sincerely, C. R. ENDSLEY, Superintendent. Page Eleven

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SHOULD YOU The question now arises Whether you should seek admis- ENTER T. M. L? sion to Tennessee Military Institute. The answer to that question depends on you. The chief qualification for a boy to enter T. M. I. is a gennine desire to nvaflce good. If you have that gen- uine desire to make good, We Want you. While We have the various interests and activities enumerated in the preceding paragraphs, they are intended to contribute their parts to the big purpose of the school-namely, developing the highest possible type of men of the boys that come to our school. WILL YOU DO If you enter Tennessee Military Institute or any other high- YOUR PART? grade military school, there will be times when you are called on to do more Work than you want to dog there will be other times when liberties will be denied you which you think ought to be grantedg there will be many times when you will have to fit in with a general require- ment instead of selecting a course which would appeal to you as an individual. Have you the real spirit of teamWork?,' If so, We Want you. The desire to make good and the willingness to pull together are the tests to apply to your- self before seeking admission. Mi!! Q 5 2 i .,.VL.. M 2 Z i g, O CAMPUS VIEW Page Thirteen