Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1899-1900 [PAGE 280]

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MILITARY

Department, including 300 cadet rifles and accoutrements, and two field pieces of artillery. 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 credit for 4 semester hours. He is also required to study Drill Regulations for Infantry and to recite upon the same once a week until he gains credit for one semester hour. 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; one semester of recitations and drill count two hours, and the three remaining semesters of drill three hours, 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 one examination in the drill regulations and have gained 1 hour's credit in drill practice are eligible for corporals; those having 2 hours' credit in each are eligible for sergeants; and those having 4 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