Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1892-1893 [PAGE 141]

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SCHOOL OF MILITARY SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR ELBRIDGE R. HILLS,

Captain 5th Artillery, U.S.A. The military instruction is under the charge of a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, and an officer of the regular army of the United States. The course as a whole has special reference to the duties of officers of the line. A full supply of arms and ammunition is furnished by the War Department, including 300 cadet rifles and accoutrements, and two field pieces of artillery. Ammunition is supplied for the practice and target firing and for artillery use. Every male student, able to perform military duty and not excused for sufficient cause, is required to drill twice each week until he has gained six creditable term records. He is also required to study the Drill Regulations for Infantry and to recite upon the same once a week until he passes two creditable term examinations. This practical instruction begins as soon as possible after he enters the University; but a preparatory student, carrying no freshman studies and not expecting to matriculate during the year, is not permitted to drill. The standings in study and drill are placed on record, with other class credits; two terms of recitations and drill count one credit, and the four remaining terms of drill another, and are requisite to graduation in every University course. Appointments in the battalion are made on nomination by the professor in charge and confirmation by the Faculty. Students who have passed two examinations in the drill regulations and who have gained two term credits in drill practics are eligible for corporals; those having three term credits in each are eligible for sergeants; and those having six term credits in each, for lieutenants and for officers of higher rank. The battalion (four companies) is composed mainly of the members of the freshman and sophomore classes; the first supplying the corporals, the second, the sergeants, while the captains and lieutenants are taken from those of the junior class who have passed through the lower grades satisfactorily. A special military scholarship, good for one year, is open to each student who attains the grade of a commissioned officer, the value of which is paid the holder at the close of the year. 139