Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1895-1896 [PAGE 235]

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MILITARY SCIENCE

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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 by the faculty as having good reputations as scholars, officers, and gentlemen. Under the authority of the acts of corporation, the trustees have prescribed a uniform of cadet gray, coat trimmed with black mohair braid, trousers with black cloth stripe, cut after the U. S. army pattern. The uniform of the cadet officers is of dark blue cloth for coat and light blue for trousers; cap for all of dark blue cloth, army pattern, with university badge embroidered thereon in gold bullion ; white gloves; the uniform of the band dark blue throughout, with special trimmings. The University Cornet Band is composed of students, and every full term of service therein is counted as one term of drill,