Western Military Academy - Recall Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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THE CLASS WHL Cf-DME T0 CRDER! Aaaksemiwisiiriiiaassssi l i Slricklcinol rops on flue Toble. The secrelory will reczol The minules of yes+erdciy's meeling ..... l'Uf1OCCUSlOmGd os I om lo public speolc- ing .... Liclcey begins bis senior speech, lhe required Toslc of every senior ! ,20-

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PLEASE OBSERVE QUIET is The slogan of our new library-sTucly hall. and has helped To Teach The cadeTs someThing abouT running a democracy. Two of The sysTems which were begun lasT year and which were carried over To This year were The seven-period day and The meThod oT grading. Each day consisTed oT five academic calls in The morning and Two in The aTTernoon, Tollowed by a miliTary period. Each cadeT Taking The usual Tour sTudies had Three TorTy-Tive minuTe calls during The day and one hour and a halT period during The evening in which To prepare his assignmenTs. ln regard To The grading, reporTs were senT home To parenTs each monTh, and The cadeTs received reporTs every Two weeks. The mid-winTer grades were To sTimulaTe The iniTiaTive and progress oT The sTudenT in his work. The grading sysTem was done by leTTers which were given numerical equivalenT. These numbers were used To obTain The sTudenT's average in all sub- iecTs by adding The numerical equivalenTs and divid- ing by The number of courses which The sTudenT Took. A charT oT The grades and Their equivalenTs is as Tollows: EX ....... 4 ExcellenT G . . -. .3 Good M . . . , . .2 Median P . . . . . . I Poor UN ... ...O UnsaTisTacTory Each cadeT was assigned a baTTing average ac- cording To his abiliTy. IT The sTudenT kep+ up This baT- Ting average, he was allowed To sTudy in The bar- racks during The evening: buT if he failed he had To reTurn To The sTudy hall. Seniors have This privilege during The day, also, buT They had To mainTain Their averages. The plan oT requiring each senior To give a seven- minuTe speech beTore The corps in order To receive his crediTs, which was also originaTed lasT year, was con- Tinued This year. This year The juniors have also been added To The lisT. Such oraTorical work is Tine preparaTion Tor laTer liTe because iT gives experience and confidence To a youTh. lT is a parT of a schedule which helps The sTudenT plan Tor his TuTure. AnoTher imporTanT parT oT This developmenT pro- gram was The second annual vocaTional conTerence which was held April I3 and l4. ProminenT business men were inviTed Trom large indusTrial concerns To speak To The cadeTs. Since in Their iobs They are always dealing wiTh young men, Their advice and opinions on vocaTional problems were very helpTul To The cadeTs. This helpTul Training along vocaTional lines should prove very valuable To TuTure WesTern graduaTes. Major C. L. Persing, during his Three years as principal aT W. lvl. A., has accomplished much. This year, in recogniTion of his Tine work, he was named l leadmasTer oT WesTern lvliliTary Academy by Col- onel R, L. Jackson. The corps oT cadeTs wishes him The besT oT luck and The conTinuaTion oT his success. -iq..

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