Tennessee Military Institute - Radiogram Yearbook (Sweetwater, TN)

 - Class of 1971

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ing a school, some thought should be given to stability and permanence. While no school would be justified in claiming its own immortality, Tennessee Mili- tary Institute has much that promises continuance for a long period. Founded in the hard days shortly after the War between the States, it has successfully weathered several seasons of financial stress and strain. Since its founding, it has had three groups of long-term administrators. The first of these continued for twenty-six years, the next for thirteen years, and the present group has been in charge since 1919. This makes for steadiness of policy and general stability. Despite its ninety years of age, the school has all the characteristics of a steadily increasing vigor. It was moved to a new campus sixty years ago and that campus is just now reaching a peak of beauty and attractiveness which classes it with the most beautiful school premises in America. 6. ENVIRONMENT' LOCATION' Beautiful surroundings help to cultivate a love ACCESSIBILITY of the beautiful-an important element in the education of a cultured gentleman. In this re- spect, Tennessee Military Institute is most fortunate. Not only is our own campus very beautiful, but the views from the campus are beautiful in all di- rections. The Great Smoky Mountains are visible most of the time in one direction, the Chilhowee Mountains in another, and the Cumberlands in an- other. Several times each winter, with no sign of snow at Sweetwater, the Smokies are snow-capped. The population of the town is composed of home-owning, home-loving, churchgoing people. It has been a school town for ninety years. The best families, typical of the old Southern culture, frequently ask permission to have groups of our boys to dinner in their homes. All in all, it is a good home town for a school. Sweetwater is unsurpassed in point of accessibility both by automobile and by train. The most frequented motor highway from New York to New Orleans constitutes the front border of our campus for four-tenths of a mile. The most-used motor route from the Great Lakes cities to Florida doubles on this same highway for forty miles on each side of Sweetwater. Without question, more automobile travelers see T. M. I. annually than see any other military school in the United States. Patrons in their travels are constantly Page Ten

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stopping by the school to visit their boys. The school is located approximately thirty-live miles from Tyson Airport, which serves the Knoxville area. Boys trav- elling by air use Delta, American, Southern, Piedmont, and United Airlines. Con- venient schedules are available to all points in the nation by air. The accessibility of the school by car and airplane has contributed to the national patronage of the school. ' 7- FREEDOM FROM Family and community customs have so changed D'5TRACT'NG 'NF'-UENCES in the last generation that teen-age boys no longer have any fair chance of doing uninterrupted work in their own homes. Even in childhood, one interruption follows another, ut- terly disrupting the cultivation of any sustained study habits. As the boy gets older and reaches the high school age, it becomes still worse. Such distractions, social and otherwise, would explain why many parents are considering private academies this year for their boys. Parents seeking a solution for this problem would do well to avoid selecting a school so situated that the boy would merely be exchanging one set of distracting influences at home for another set of dis- tractions in another locality. Tennessee Military Institute is most fortunately situated in this respect. Located just inside the corporate limits of a small town, other than one high-class motion picture theatre, there is little that at- tracts boys away from the school campus. Consequently, most of the free time of the boys is spent in congenial groups engaged in some interesting activity on the campus. Of the influences which distract at home and cause worry and anxiety to parents, we have practically none. 8' RECREAHONAL FAC -'HES Parents want their boys to be happy in MAKWG Fok STUDENT HAPPINESS their school life away from home. We desire the same. The happy boy loves his school and does better schoolwork. Therefore, we spend much time, effort, and money every year providing facilities and activities mainly for the happiness of the boys. That T. M. I. boys are happy and enjoy thoroughly their life on the campus, neither a transient or long-time visitor could possibly doubt. Evidences of hilarious fun and good humor are everywhere present. That much of it in the free time is too noisy for nervous maiden aunts we cheerfully admit. This rollicking fun becomes the normal order of life during the school session to such an extent that it requires several days for us to become adjusted to the quiet of the campus in vacation times. This is not only true of us of the campus Page Eleven

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