Tennessee Military Institute - Radiogram Yearbook (Sweetwater, TN)

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ATALO - W GI937 I938 TENNESSEE MILITARY INSTITUTE ANNOUNCEMENTS I938- I 939 SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR Designated HONOR MILITARY SCHOOL l922, I927, I928, I929, I930, I93I, I932, I933, I934, l935, I936, I937, and I938 isoo Roazogrom :Mori at Front of CatalogI O MEMBER or Southern Association ot Colleges and Secondary Schools Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the U. S. Private School Association ot the Central States Mid-South Association of Private Schools Southern Association ot Private Schools EETWATER, TENNESSEE Q - - -

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ENTRANCE TO MAIN BUILDING

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CONCERNING THE FACULTY.. Parents and boys considering the selecting of a school are interested in location and accessibility, quality of buildings and equipment, educational rec- ognition, and various other important considerations. However, the most im- portant consideration, the one that means the most in the life of the boy of this year and of the man he is to be a decade later, is the character and per- sonality of the men who, as teachers, will influence the forming of his char- acter. The passing of the electric current from one live wire to another turns the wheels of industry. Just so the contacts made in classroom and chapel, dormitory room and playground, between teachers and boys in the intimate life of the boarding school, pass on the power of the school into the life of the boy, arousing ambition, supplying objectives, inspiring needed decisions. Therefore, parents and boys should seek just as much information as pos- sible concerning the officers and teachers of the schools under consideration. At first thought this may seem a hard problem. It is not. It is easy to make contact in person, or by letter or telephone, with several other parents who have already had boys in a school. Specific questions concerning the char- acter of teachers, their reputation for fair dealing, whether they are interested in teaching or profits, etc., will reveal the personalities of the men composing the faculty of a particular school. Tennessee Military Institute invites just this sort of searching inquiry concerning its teachers. During the next two, three, or four years, some one teacher will become the outstanding influence in the life of the boy, just as a generation ago an- other teacher had the same sort of influence in the life of every successful father who may read these paragraphs. Talk with our old boys will reveal that one teacher here has been the great influence in the life of one boy, an- other in the life of another. Firm in this belief, we have spared no pains in bringing together the men who compose our teaching force. Retaining the continuous services of these men has entailed much expense above what would have been required through the process of employing inexperienced teachers, fresh out of college. This is not a one-man school. Rather is it a team of fifteen earnest teachers, teach- ing because they love teaching, and teaching in a boys' school because they love boys. Again we ask: Consider our teachers g note their periods of service in this school, make inquiry of former patrons and former pupils. A boy in Tennessee Military Institute will be inHuenced by the men of personality who will teach him. Find out in advance whether it is the kind of influence you Wish him to have.