The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-10-04
MILITARY TRAINING.
Army onicers Assigned to Duty ~ Col
leges by Congress-

Army ofieers Assigned to Duty ~ COZ
leges by Congress-
A list OF the officers OF the army as
signed TO the military instruction OF
universities and colleges, under section
1925 OF the Revised Statutes, as amend
ed by the last Congress. shows that
f~orty-eight Lieutenants are detailed Tor
this duty. and that their terms expire
at various periods during the next
TIN ee years. The number allowed by
statute is fifty. SO that the details are
tolerably well filed. and in addition
ten are allowed from the navy.
The law declares that where a State
has more than one school endowed by
the national land grant Of 1862. the
one which the Governor declares to be
the most In accord with the require
ments Of the statute shall have the Of
ficer who may be allotted to that State.
The institutions which actually have
the army details include the State Uni
versities of Vermont, West Virginia,
Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri. Minnesota,
Nebraska, Nevada and California; the
Colleges of Maine. Pennsylvania and
Delaware; the Agricultural Colleges
of Massachusetts,, Maryland, North
Georgia, East Florida, Michigan, Kan
sas, and Colorado; tine Agricultural
and Mechanical Colleges of Virginia,
kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas; and the Arkansas Industrial
University. Thus it will be seer that
these instructors are widely distributed
through the Union.
We also find officers stationed at some
we'll known institutions. like Cornell
University, Union College, Rutger Col
lege, and the Sheffield Scientific School
of Yale University. Then Norwich,
De Paw, Purdue. Wooster Universi-
ties, the Normal University at Ada, and
the university of the South have
army instructors, as have also
Knox and Allegheny Colleges, Cornell
College of Iowa, and two St. Johns Col
leges, n in New York and the other
in Maryland. Army officers are also
assigned to the Pennsylvania, South
Carolina and Michigan military acade-
mics, to the Cathedral School at Gar
den City. and to the Bingham school of
North Carolina.
1t must be conceded that South and
North. West and East take advantage
of the system as amended by the FIJI
teenth Congress, and no officer is de.
tailed except upon application from the
authorities Of the institution. This ap-
plication gives the number of male stu
dents which the institution is educat-
ing, or is able to educate. Army Off
GERS on their part may apply for this
duty, which is much coveted. At pres
ent the details show that twenty-seven
infantry, twelve cavalry and nine ar.
Lieutenants are detailed, which
is q tolorably equal division among the
three arms. The Second Artillery gets
the best of it. with four officers
detailed, while the Fourth has three,
the Third and First one each, and the
Fifth none. In the cavalry, the Sew
has three college details; the First,
Sixth and Tenth, two each, the Second,
Third and Fifth, ono each, and the 9th
or regiments none. In the infantry
Second has four; tia Thirteenth
and Eighteenth three each; the Sixth,
Fifteenth and Twenty-fourth two each,
and, necessarily, many others have none.
Besides the sixty army and navy Off
allowed under section 1,226 of the
Revised Statutes, under details are pos
sible under section 1860. On the
whole, considering the large number
stations. occupied by our forty regi-
nents of the line, and the many calls
or details from companies, for various
services, the supply of officers for pop
liar military instruction is liberal.
hardly any way of exactly de.
'ermining how much good is done by
his sort of work, or rather there
'eems to have been no thorough or
comprehensive study Of its actual re,
'ults; but the last Congress evidently
considered the system worthy of being
continued and even enlarged. N. Y.
sun.