Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1891-1892 [PAGE 139]

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SCHOOL OF. MILITARY SCIENCE.

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Aii artillery detachment is organized mainly from the second year or sophomore class, which receives practical instruction twice each week during the college year. Towards the close of the spring term, a committee appointed by the Faculty examines candidates for nomination to the governor of the state to receive commissions as brevet captains in the state militia. Candidates must be members of the senior class in full standing at the time of this examination; must have completed the course of military studies; must have served three terms as captains or lieutenants, and must be approved by the Faculty, as having good reputations as scholars, officers, and gentlemen. tinder the authority of the acts of incorporation, the Trustees have prescribed a uniform- of cadet gray, with black cloth trimming, cut after the pattern prescribed by the U. S. Army Regulations; members of the band to wear the usual additional trimmings. The uniform of th3 commissioned officers is that of officers of the same grade in the National Guard. All members of the battalion wear the "University badge on the cap. Uniforms must be procured within one month after entering upon military duty, and must be worn at all military formations. The University Cornet Band is composed of students, and every full term of service therein is counted as one term of drill.

COURSES IS MILITARY SCIENCE.

1. Drill Regulations.—For all male students. School of the soldier; school of the company in close and in extended order; bayonet exercise. Fall and winter terms, 1 hour a week. Professor HILLS. 2. Drill Practice.—-For all male students.

Professor HILLS.

Six terms, 2 hours a week.

3. Recitation and Practice for Military Class.—(a) School of the battalion, close and extended order; artillery drill. (t>) Ceremonies, review, and inspection; military signaling; sword exercise; artillery drill. (e) Guard, outpost, and picket duty; military signaling; artillery drill. (d) Military administration; reports and returns; theory of fire arms; target practice. (e) Organization of armies; field fortifications; art of war. Seven terms, recitations, 1 to 2 hours a week; drill, 2 hours a week. Professor HILLS.