Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Military Training in our Land Grant Colleges (1916) [PAGE 11]

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1 desire t present for in Icrution, t prehensh plan in comu > with th n la 1 grani In in brief th< stablishing of a regul I .nd tactics in each of th< uni\ at ain institutions iding to the degi > r .nd Art. md qualifying the student to en Lieutenant upon a par with tin p W IP < <

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tak the degrees of Bachelor of Military Scien nd I .el r of Elect I Mechanical Engineering in the course of six years. ich a g r a d u a t e we have, in addition to the military cours an extended rr ulu n an itirely different held which would greatly lu ;htcii the val course from the standpoint of a military officer. On th r 1 nd, addition to his course which would prepare him for a civil occup he would have the military training which would 1 io in i pic: strengthening and fortifying the other course, . a gradu Id be fully qualified to enter the army as Second Lieu i : or to enter . :e as an engineer, or lawyer, or farmer. If, after the completion of this course, he were admitu arm for one year, he could obtain a final and complete tr, ing, qu g I n fully as a reserve officer in the regular army, contiin j guard. So far as I am aware, all of our military authorities would agr such a course properly constructed and properly taught \. satisfactory from the military point of view. T h e sul would be so distributed throughout the curriuluin that I be pursuing a military subject in each semester, thus features of the course at the same time as the others. I believe that if the Federal Government would a mil hip of 50 per annum, or $1500 for the course, on conditi n 1 didat after graduation in the University should enter tl Li itenant for one \< r, with Lieutenant > pay, and th cor a certain number t years subsequent, the I N V no difficult) in getting a considerable number of fil >

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be furnished in an institution like West |\>int, 1 believe I at 1 for example, we could turn ut fiftj such men a year, graduated from \\ .t I'oinl in i o i | . It would be in sat \ oi identl who wish to pui u« tin m riculum to enl : t (] a-, tiny enlist at the present time when thrv enter West P o i n t di .tiiiKUished imbtaiv ailthoritii whom 1 h a \ e CO! al: t} >i

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