Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1894-1895 [PAGE 193]

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MILITARY SCIENCE!.

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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 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 practice 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 (six 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 and senior classes 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. An 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

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