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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION. 179 Junior Class—Fall term, school of the battalion, skirmish drills, and ceremonies. Winter term, review of field fortifications, field intrenchments, defense of buildings, hedges and all cover available; the general rules governing the selection of camps, bivouacs and also those governing marches; courts martial and many minor duties of army administration; the treatment of mobs and general modes of defense against the same. These latter subjects have been taught from text books and through informal lectures upon the different subjects. The length of time which could be devoted to each has necessitated a cursory treatment of each, but enough has been done to put the student on the right road, I hope, and enable him at least to study intelligently in future. The necessity of rapid movement and hasty intrenchment of troops to meet the improvements in arms and ammunition has been impressed, rather than the deliberate, mechanical movement, which was possible at the time many of our books of instruction were published. I respectfully recommend the following: 1. That a surgeon be employed, and paid, if possible, by the University to examine all students claiming to be diseased and wishing to be excused from drill. The method now in vogue necessarily puts much distasteful work upon the Regent which might very properly be delegated to a surgeon of known ability and character, removing, at* the same time, the possibility of injustice in either direction. 2. That some means be provided for lighting the drill hall during the drill hour from November 1 to the end of the fall term. This I consider especially important for the new students as the time for their instruction is necessarily very short before they are admitted to the battalion. I wish to extend my thanks to yourself and the members of the University Faculty for the consideration shown me in attempts to improve the discipline of the battalion under my charge.
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