St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-11-16
MILITARY TRAINING.
AP0y 00osrs Asslgnsd 20 Duty as o.
loe0o b. Congress.

| MILITARY TRAINING.
Army 0@esrs Assignsd to Daty as o.
lo9os b. Congress-
A list Of the officers Of the army a.
signed TO the military instruction Of
universities and colleges. under section
1925 Of the Revised Statutea - amend
ed by the last Congress. shows that
forty-eight Lieutenants arc detailed for
this duty. and that their terms expire
at various periods during the next
tn, CO years The number allowed by
statute is fifty. 90 that the details are
tolerably we'll filled. and in addition
ten are allowed from the navy.
| The law declares that where q State
has moro than ono school endowed BY
the national land grant OF 1862. the
ono 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 seen that
these instructors arc 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 UNIVERSE
ties. the Normal University at Ada. and
the university of the South havo
army instructors. as have also
Knox and Allegheny Colleges. Cornell
College Of Iowa, and two ST. Johns Col
leges. one in New York and the o:her
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 DO 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 educa.-
ing. or is able to educate Army ofi-
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.
tillery Lieutenants arc detailed, which |
is tolerably equal division among the |
three arms The Second Artillery gets |
rather 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.
enth has three college details; the First
Sixth and Tenth. two each; the Second,
Third and Fifth, one each. and the 9th.
er regiments none. In the infantry |
the Second has four; the 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,
GERS allowed under section I, 226 of the
Revised Statutes. under details are pos
sible under section 1900 On the
whole. considering the large number
Of stations. occupied by our forty regi.
ments Of the line. and tho many calls
Tor details from companies, for various
the supply Of officers for pop
alar military instruction il liberal
There is hardly any way Of exactly de.
how much good 10 done BY
his sort Of work. or rather there
'eems to have been no thorough or
study Of its actual re.
'ults; but the last Congress evidently
the system worthy Of being
and even enlarged-N Y.
sun.