The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-09-11
BEST OPENINC IN
SCHOOL SRISTORY
FOURTH SESSION OF COLUMBIA
MILITARY ACADEMY BEGINS
AUsPIcIoUsLY.
LARGEST ATTENDANCE ERECORD
Splendid Exercises Mark .lnausura
ton Of what Promises to be
Exceptionally Fine Term.

ton Of What Promises to be
Exceptionally Fine Term.
With many friends and patrons OF
the school present. with more boys on
hand than for any opening in the
hiNDry Of the school. under bright
skies that augur well for the coming
session, and with interesting exer-
cises the fourth year OF the Columbia
Military Academy was openedTuesday
morning in the large school chapel.
The boys have been coming in for
the past several days and nearly ont
hundred came in Monday night. II look
ed like old times and the school yell
given by the boys stirred one to
thoughts of the days last session
when the cadets formed such an inn
portant and pleasant part of the life
OF the town. The boys were massed
in groups Tuesday and it looked
as If the greater number of faces
were seen here for the first time
though many of the old boys were on
hand and many more will get in to
night and in the morning, as the old
boys as rule do not get in as
promptly as new students.
At 10:30 the bugle sounded and
boys and visitors gathered in the
chapel The meeting was called to
order by Col. Hardy. On the stage
were the members Of the faculty and
several members of the faculty of
last year, who will not be here this
years and a number of the ministers
of the town. Col Hardy said he was
glad the time to open school had ar
rived and was sorry too for he realiz-
ed that hard years work was before
the school and the hardest part of it
was the opening and getting things
started. But the hardest part of the
life of the school was past and that
occurred three years ago at the first
opening when the life of the school
hung in the balance. That opening
was inaugurated with lot of un.
trained boys and with faculty whose
capabilities as instructors in mill
AIRY school were problematic. That it
vas true that only two members of
hat original faculty were on hand Z
low and many of the boys who had
eceived their training at the school
lad passed to other fields, but there
we're still many of the old boys pres p
mt, the principals were filed with
Teater confidence and the principles u
+ the school were fixed, SO It would 4
OF be so hard this time
COL Hardy spoke with pride of the 1
Iudents turned out in past years and 81
those who have gone to =
igher institutions of learning. He e
hid the boys of the school exempli- U
ed the purposes of the institution u
bich was to build character as well al
J to train the mind: to develop the IN
BY four square-the n-r.al the men. ID
] and the physical MAJ Boys from nc
e school are to be found in the Uni IN
.rsity of Pennsylvania, In Annapolis. ie
the University of Virginia in the ID
of Texas, in the University m
Colorado and in other higher insti- pc
ffonc Monu IF thar orc Ioodino 10
cir classes and all are taking high we
nix. 1T
He said the first three years of the en-
hool Mas the crucial period in its
story. Those years established the an
licy and the principles OF the school tai
d told whether real work was to be 70
ne and real. men were to be turned 10
or theA boys were simply to have ga
good time and gain little superb mi
i learning. That the purpose of the DO!
lumbia Military Academy was to do Wn
u work apd it had earned that rep Ter
,tion bnt that II was not all work hay
no play with the cadets of the c. !
A. The faculty believed in the WI
rs working when they did work and ed
ying when they played. That the fro
rs we're not simply preparing them ma
yes here either; that they we're liv. mo
part of their lives here, and that nor
nv act during .their wears AT the frie
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