Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1897-1898 [PAGE 263]

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MILITARY DEPARTMENT

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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. Toward 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 incorporation, 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. In order that all uniforms worn at this University may be, in quality, make, and finish in strict accordance with the specifications adopted by the Board of Trustees, all students enrolled in the military department will be required to obtain them from that firm only that may, for the time being, be under agreement and bond with the Trustees to furnish said uniforms at a stated price and of standard quality. The University Cornet Band is composed of students, and every full term of service therein is counted as one term of drill.