Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1890-1891 [PAGE 72]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

No student will be permitted to retain a command who does not maintain a good standing in conduct and scholarship. The instruction and class exercises occupy about three hours each week, arranged, as far as possible, so as not to interfere with any other course of study. Students must be careful, however, to ascertain, before entering the military class, that the proper studies and exercises of their chosen course will not be interfered with. Commissions.—The Governor of the state is accustomed to commission as captains, by brevet, in the state militia, such graduates of the University as have completed the studies of the military classes and have obtained the requisite experience in command in the University battalion. In order to obtain the commission the student must be approved by the Faculty and pass, satisfactorily, an examination in military science and tactics before a committee appointed by the Faculty of the University. It is expected that in order to get the required experience in command, the members of the military class of the third or junior year will serve as commissioned officers of the several companies of the battalion. The standings obtained in military science are not counted in the number required for graduation or class standing; the commission above named being deemed sufficient reward for proficiency in this department. University Uniform.—Under the authority of the acts of incorporation, the trustees have prescribed that all male students, after the first term of their attendance, shall wear the University uniform. The University cap is to be worn from the first. The uniform of privates consists of a suit and a cap of cadet gray cloth. Students can procure them ready made on their arrival here. The University cap is ornamented in front with the initials, U. of I., surrounded by a wreath. The uniform of commissioned officers consists of a dark blue coat and vest and trousers of lighter blue, the whole being similar to the fatigue dress of officers in the United States army. Students will always wear their uniforms on parade, but in their rooms and at recitations may wear other clothing. The University Cornet Band is composed of students who, while members of the band, are excused from drill. Instruments and music are furnished by the University, and the band plays at drill and other college exercises.