Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 264]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

are eligible for corporals; those having 10 hours' credit in each are eligible for sergeants; and those having 20 hours' credit 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. The lieutenants are taken from those of the junior class, and the major and captains from those of the senior 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. 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 year, 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