School of Military Science and Tactics.

THE FACULTY.

A. A. JOHNSON, A. M., D. D., PRESIDENT.

Professor of Military Science and Tactics.

The department of Military Science and Tactics is established in accordance with the requirements of an act of Congress donating public lands to colleges, one of the conditions being that military tactics shall be taught. It is under the control of an officer of the regular army, detailed by the war department for this duty, without any expense to the State, under the provisions of Section 1225, Revised Statutes of the United States. One hundred and fifty Springfield rifles (cadet pattern; similar to those used at West Point) and equipments are loaned to the college by the U. S. Ordnance department. An allowance of ammunition is annually supplied by the general government for purposes of target practice. All students except the members of the Senior class, are required to drill throughout the year. The drill is elective in the Senior year. At drill, a uniform is worn. The uniform is neat and inexpensive, and may be worn with propriety on all occasions. The cadet officers and non-commissioned are appointed by the commandant of cadets, subject to the approval of the President. The commissioned officers are usually selected from the Senior class; the sergeants from the Junior class, and the corporals from the Sophomore class; general merit and military efficiency being the qualifications considered.

Besides obtaining the excellent physical results which flow from systematic and regular military training, the morale of the students will thus be improved. The virtues of patriotism, honor and truthfulness are cultivated, and habits of neatness, promptness and obedience are insisted upon.

I.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.

Infantry drill. School of the Soldier. School of the Company. School of the Battalion.

2. Artillery drill. School of the Soldier dismounted. School of the Battery dismounted for selected detach

ments.

3. Military Signaling, for selected detachments.
4. Military Science. Lectures.

This course of instruction is subject to change, should the Professor and officer in charge desire to follow a different arrangement of the work as outlined.

The organization consists of a battalion, composed of companies of Infantry, and a battery of Artillery, composed of two three-inch Field rifles.

The Armory is open for drill at stated times during the week, and by law all male students in the University are required to drill, unless excused by the Faculty, or by physical disability.

UNIFORM.

Military drill has become a feature of the college course, and it is much to be desired that all students appear at the drills in uniform. Students are advised to come to the college without especially providing themselves with new clothes, and to arrange to wear the cadet uniform habitually while at college.

The cost of the uniform is from $16 to $25. The grade of suiting to be obtained for about $21, including the cap, wears well and proves to be economical.

All male students are expected to provide themselves with uniforms. It consists of a blouse, trousers, vest, and cap, modeled after the West Point uniforms, with flat buttons.

The commissioned and non-commissioned officers will be selected at the beginning of each year, as far as practical, from the Senior, Junior and Sophomore classes.

IMPORTANT.

The three students of the Senior class having the highest grade of merit in this department, will be reported to the Secretary of War, and by him reported in the Army and Navy Register for that year. Preference being given to those so reported in selecting officers for vacan cies in the United States Army.

Text Books.

The following text books are used in the Institution in its several departments:

SCIENTIFIC.

Physical Geography-Houston. (Rev. Ed.)
Physiology-Martin. (Briefer Course. W.C.T.U. Ed.)
Botany-Gray's Lessons and Coulter's Manual.

Zoology-Packard. (Briefer Course.)

Advanced Physiology-Martin.

Advanced Physiology-Bessey.

LABORATORY MANUALS AND REFERENCE BOOKS.

Biology-Huxley and Martin, Sedgwick and Wilson.
Physiology-Foster, Flint.

Botany Bower, Sachs, Barnes, and Coulter.

Zoology-Packard, Claus, Huxley.

Elementary Chemistry-Avery.

Elementary Physics-Avery.

Advanced Physics-Ganot's.

Qualitative and Quantitative Chemistry-Fresenius.
Agricultural Chemistry--Storer.

Geology--Le Conte.

Mineralogy-Dana's Manual Mineralogy and Petrography.

MATHEMATICS.

Arithmetic-Ficklin.

Algebra-Wentworth.
Geometry-Chauvenet.
Trigonometry-Wentworth.

Advanced Algebra-VanVelzer.
Theory of Equations-Van Velzer.
Conic Sections-Smith.

Mechanics-Wood.

Calculus-Byerly.

Astronomy-Newcomb and Holden.

LATIN AND GREEK.

The Beginner's Latin Book-Collar and Daniell. Cæsar de Bello Gallico-Kelsey.

Latin Grammar-Allen and Greenough.

Cicero (Select Orations)-Allen and Greenough. Virgil-Greenough.

Livy Chase and Stuart.

*Horace-Chase and Stuart.

Cicero de Senectute et Amicitia-Kelsey.

Terence, Adelphi-Sloman.

Terence, Andria-Freeman and Sloman.
Tacitus-Allen.

Plautus-Freeman and Sloman.

Latin Composition-Collar.
Latin Composition-Nixon.

Greek Grammar-Goodwin.

*Greek Lessons

White.

Xenophon-Kelsey.

Greek Reader-Goodwin.
Homer, Iliad-Seymour.

Homer, Odyssey-Merry.
Lysias-Whiton.

Plato, Apology and Crito-Dyer.
Thucydides, Sicilian Expedition-Frost.
Demosthenes de Corona-D'Ooge.

Greek Composition-Allinson.

Greek Composition-Sidgwick.

HISTORY.

United States-Anderson's Revised.

Outlines of History-(Text book not selected.) English History-(Text book not selected.)

Ancient History-Meyers.

Modern History-Meyers.

HIGHER ENGLISH.

English Composition and Grammar-Welsh.

Rhetoric-Welsh.

Philosophy of Rhetoric-Bascom.